“Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975 and has over 800 languages; 87% of the population lives in rural areas.”
Tags: Papua New Guinea, Oceania.
Source: www.youtube.com
Tips from a geographer who’s seen it all.
Tags: mapping, cartography, 201, perspective, map.
Source: www.citylab.com
“Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran was once one of the largest saltwater lakes in the Middle East, but it has diminished dramatically. Diversion of water from local rivers for agricultural use is one likely cause. Since 1996, drought has further contributed to the decline. The lake now covers about 10 percent of the area it covered in the 1970s. In the 2014 image, the entire southern portion of the salty lakebed is exposed. Also see this set of images.”
Tags: Iran, remote sensing, geospatial, unit 1 Geoprinciples, land use, food, food production, environment.
Source: climate.nasa.gov
A judge in Argentina orders the seizure of assets of firms drilling for oil around the Falklands, but it is unclear how it can be enforced.
Source: www.bbc.com
Are they the Falklands or Las Malvinas? It’s not just a simple linguistic translation but also a statement of territoriality and geopolitical recognition in this festering situation. For a great teaching resource on the historical ebbs and flows in this longstanding dispute between Argentina and the UK, see the second slideshow in this series of AP Human Geography talks that was given at NCGE two years ago.
Tags: Argentina, borders, political, territoriality, sovereignty.
Have we mapped the whole planet? As Rachel Nuwer discovers, there are mysterious, poorly charted places everywhere, but not for the reasons you might think.
Tags: mapping, cartography.
Source: www.bbc.com
“The Supreme Court’s decision means marriage equality is now the law of the land in the US. But whether states allow same-sex couples to marry immediately or days or weeks from now will depend on the actions of local and state officials, who could delay the final effect of the decision for a few days or weeks.”
Tags: sexuality, USA, map, political.
Source: www.vox.com
You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct:
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6943461...
Source: www.youtube.com
“How we occupy and move through space is based on many cultural norms and many of those norms and assumptions are based on gender.”
Tags: space, gender, place, cultural norms, culture, perspective.
Source: geographyeducation.org
“The idea for creating dynamic online teaching maps came up after one of our teacher friends expressed her frustration over how difficult it was to find just the right learning map for particular topic.”
Source: www.worksheetworks.com
One of the problems with so many outline maps for classroom use is that, depending on your lesson plan, you might want it labeled, showing surrounding countries or in color…but maybe not. This site lets you customize these simple maps that are perfect for the K-12 classroom (and yes, they have maps for all regions of the world). If you want online map quizzes for a regional geography course, these are my favorites.
Tags: K12, map, map archives.
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