1. Interesting
   1. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor and the Interconnected world
2. The Earth in Space
   1. The earths tilt is 23.5 degrees
   2. Natural Latitutdes
      1. North Pole
         1. 90
      2. Arctic Circle
         1. 66.5
      3. Tropic of Cancer
         1. 23.5
      4. Equator
         1. 0
      5. Tropic of Capricorn
         1. 23.5
      6. Antarctic Circle
         1. 66.5
      7. South Pole
         1. 90
   3. Unnatural Longitude
      1. Prime Meridian
         1. decided by british dudes
         2. international date line is the opposite
      2. Subtopic 2
3. Using your Atlas
   1. Cartograms
      1. map that represents a thematic variable for a given region
   2. Introduction
      1. Basic Earth Properties
      2. Cartography and Geospatial Tech
      3. Map Scale
      4. Map Projections
   3. World
      1. p. 18-84
      2. biomes
         1. p. 46-47
      3. the USA
         1. p. 85-107
   4. Important
      1. Political Information Table
         1. 289-297
      2. World Comparisons
      3. Principle Cities of the World
         1. Important in the politics and economy of the world
4. Reading Maps
   1. Projections
      1. There is no such thing as a totally accurate flat map
      2. R. Buckminster Fuller would say a tetrahedronal projections would be more accurate
      3. Types
         1. Mercator
            1. 1500s
            2. straight lines like a grid
            3. colonialist projection
            4. Greenland is too big
            5. Africa too small
         2. Peters
            1. 1970s
            2. supposed to promote development, equity, and justice
            3. Africa is huge just like real life
   2. Bias
      1. US-Centered
         1. if a map is set on America
         2. The center of the map can be an important place
      2. McCarthur's Universal Corrective