Tugas B.inggris Irmawati A011181315
Tugas B.inggris Irmawati A011181315
Tugas B.inggris Irmawati A011181315
IRMAWATI
A011 18 1315
UNIVERSITAS HASANUDDIN
MAKASSAR
2020
EXERCISE 6
1. What happens when you ask someone to draw a map of the world? The results
can be very interesting. Few people, in fact, have a very accurate idea of what
the world looks like. You might expect some mistakes in the positions of the
countries. After all, this is a task that requires a certain skill with a pencil and a
good memory. But many people do not even know the relative size of the
continents. They tend to enlarge them or make them smaller, according to their
point of view. For this reason, the home continent is often drawn too large. A
Brazilian, for example, tends to enlarge the continent of South America, while a
Vietnamese enlarges Asia.
Topic: accuracy of peoples to draw map of the world
Main Idea: Peoples on draw the map of the of the world have a different
accuracy each other, it’s depen on skill with a pencil and good
memory.
2. Another common error is the tendency to make Europe too large and Africa too
small. People from all parts of the world tend to draw the world this way,
including the Africans! There are several factors that may be involved here.
One factor may be the influence of old maps made with the "Mercator
projection." This technique for drawing maps makes areas nearer the North
Pole, including Europe, seem extra large. Other areas in the middle, such as
Africa, seem smaller than reality. However, the Mercator maps also enlarge
Greenland and Canada, and people usually do not make mistakes about their
size. Thus, a better explanation must lie in people's ideas about the relative
importance of the continents. The size of Europe tends to be exaggerated
because of its importance in people's minds. Similarly, Africa becomes smaller
because people feel it is unimportant.
Topic: Factor that influence accuracy to draw the world
Main Idea: some of factor that involved accuracy to draw map of the worl is a
projection that they use and people’s mind
3. Ignorance about the African continent has led to some enormous errors in map
making. One of the errors now seems quite incredible. In the late 18th century,
a 3. European explorer reported seeing mountains in southern Mali. From that
report, a map maker drew in a long line of mountains, These "Kong
Mountains," as he called them, appeared on almost all maps of Africa in the
19th century. They seemed to be an important feature of the continental
geography. European politicians and traders made decisions based on their
belief in the existence of these mountains. Finally, in the late 1880s, a French
explorer proved that there were no mountains in that part of Africa. Only then
did the "Kong Mountains" disappear from maps of Africa.
Topic: Enormous errors in map making
Main Idea: Ignorance about the African continent has led to some enormous
errors in map making