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AP Human Geography 2.3 Intro to Geography. Which of the following scales would be most appropriate for a map of North and South America that would fill an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper?

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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by maps yeah you know those things [Selection of maps and a globe]

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people used to use before we started carrying computers around in our pockets

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All right well...

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here's today's question which of the following scales would be most

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appropriate for a map of North and South America that would fill an eight and a

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half by eleven sheet of paper and here are your potential answers....

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To answer this question we need a general

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idea of the size of the continents and by general idea we don't mean really really

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big from tip to tail the Americas are over ten thousand miles long which means [Car trave;s from North to South America]

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if you're planning to take that road trip you should pack a lunch or several

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hundred lunches well the sheet of paper we're using to create our map is the [Map of Americas on sheet of paper]

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size of a typical piece of notebook paper you know that stuff used to make

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paper airplanes 11 inches top to bottom well 10,000 miles divided by eleven

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works out to be a little over 900 miles choices C, D and E are extreme the

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circumference of our entire planet is about 25,000 miles if any one of these [

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were the right answer the distance from the top of North America to the bottom [Person driving car shoots into space]

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of South America would be almost twice the distance to the moon and there are

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not enough sandwiches in the world for that kind of roadtrip that leaves us

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with answers A and B well A is not a bad guess B is definitely closer to the 900

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miles we found with our equation though that makes B the right answer the

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appropriate scale for our map is one inch for every thousand miles so for now [Girl throws paper airplane]

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the paper you turned into a g6 is going to have to have the right answer on it..[Paper airplane hits girl in the face]

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