Geography class blog #3

Salutations Reader, my name in Lane Miller, and today in human geography we got a new key topic. It was Mental Mapping, it sounds like a math term. Well, what is metal mapping you might ask? It is using your brain to make a map in your head. this can be useful for finding a way from point B to point A and for organizing and sorting info for future reference. One challenge we had to do in class was to draw a map of the world from our mind. Now for me, it was pretty easy but I did run into some difficulty.  I had lots of trouble with the scaling of my map. like I cut off half of Asia. This was because I made north and south America to big.  Because of this, my map did not look proportional.

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