You don’t have to control the view it will stay locked on until you manually move away by pressing B on the remote. In Endless Ocean when you selected a creature in this way you zoom into a first person view and focus on it wherever it moves.
National Parks Rock - Design Pics Inc.I remember when I first explained on Twitter we were doing Sealife as our next topic I was sent a link to this beautiful footage of the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. On Top of Half Dome - Scott McGuire/ShutterstockĮxploring the Hydrosphere - Sam Abell/NG Creative Ten Day Tour Around the World - Dmitry Rukhlenko/ShutterstockĮxploring Structures - Mike Theiss/NG Creative I'm Feeling Lucky - NASA by Reto Stöckli, based on data from NASA and NOAA SourcesĬomparing Map Projections - Daniel R. James Allen, Jessica Bean, Peter Cameron, Joel Charlebois, Charles Dabritz, Merinda Davis, Shiona Drummer, Andrette Duncan, Lise Galuga, Nicholas Gattis, Amanda Hensley, Melissa Hero, Rosalinda Jaimes, Brynn Johnson, Katherine Kauffman, Peg Keiner, Natalia LeMoyne, Joseph (Joe) Levine, Paul McAllister, Emily McAllister, Kelly McCarthy, Alvera McMillan, Michael Middleton, Pradip Misra, Raven Moore, Breanna Myles, Michele Osinski, Judith Painter, Ellie Reitz, Jeff Richardson, Rebekah Rottenberg, Terri Sallee, William (Bill) Scales, Afzal Shaikh, Miroslava Silva-Ordaz, Samantha Sinding, Dana Tatlock, Martha Thornburgh, Jessica Walsh, Brooke Whitlow, Josh Williams, Layne Zimmers. The Rights Holder for media is the person or group credited.Ĭhandana Jasti, National Geographic Society The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit. How do their estimates differ? Discuss the topic of map projections, find additional examples of differences in distortion, and brainstorm common geographic misconceptions that might stem from this feeling. Then have them do this same exercise in Google Earth. Have them estimate how much bigger Africa is than Greenland. Have students observe this effect by first looking at Google Maps and comparing the size of Greenland to the size of Africa, based on what they see in the map. To provide students with more background on this topic, show the video Selecting a Map Projection, or conduct the activity Investigating Map Projections.Įxplain that Google Earth, however, is a virtual globe, which means that features are not distorted in the same way as they are in a projected map. Most often with printed maps and maps that can be found on the Internet, the size and shape of features (continents, islands, the ocean) are distorted because cartographers use map projections to display a spherical feature on a flat surface.