Thursday, September 15, 2011

Modern Technology and Geography

In a 3-5 sentence paragraph answer the following questions:

How does modern technology help geographers?  
What tools do you have to help you in geography that were not readily available 25 years ago?  
What tools did Eratosthenes use in 255BC to help him calculate the circumference of the earth?

16 comments:

  1. Modern technology helps geographers because it can make things easier to do. For example, things like a GPS can help geographers locate places easier, or a computer with things like google earth and on the internet. Because of the latest technology, Geography has become what it is today.

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  3. Modern technology can help geographers because things like a GPS can help geographers spot out were they want to research easier than they can with a map. The tools that I have now that they didn't have 25 years ago would be a compute which can give you google earth. We have twice as more technology as they did 25 years ago.

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  4. Modern technology helps geographers because it allows them to find exact locations and create maps. It helps them gather and store information easily. We have the internet, online maps and GPS's. Eratosthenes saw the angle of a shadow from a stake in one place and the fact that there was no shadow from a stake in another place at the same time of the day.

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  6. Modern technology that some geographers have are GIS, which stores data of the earth in a digital data base. Also GPS, is anther one it is a global positioning system. Tools that people did not have 25 years or longer ago were GPS, GIS, internet, computers. Last Eratosthenes use stakes that they placed in different places were one had a shadow but the other stake didn't have a shadow so he concluded that the earth was round.

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  7. Modern technology helps geographers because it can help store information so they can reuse it, and it can do some calculations that people couldn't do. Some tools we have now that we didn't have earlier on are, a GPS to help us locate, Internet to help us look up things, GIS to help us store information. He put stakes in different places and it had shadow but the other stake didn't have a shadow, so Eratosthenes said that the earth was round.

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  8. Modern technology helps geographers today because it allows them to organize their data with a computer, they could use the internet, they could use a textbook as a reference, and they could use a GIS. To help him calculate the circumference of the earth he used the sun to help him.

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  9. Modern technology helps geographers by making it so that they can organize data. 25 years ago geographers didn't have the internet.
    In 255BC he use the compus to help him calculate the circumference of the Earth.

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  10. Modern technology helps geography because you are able to look things up and look at things that are three- dimensional. We have internet and all different types of tools now. Eratosthenes used the compass to help him calculate the circumference of the earth.

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  11. Modern technology helps geographers to find out what it was like long ago because now geographers have all different kinds of tools that I have never heard of. Tools that I can use now that there wasn't 25 years ago is the Internet that works really well, microscopes, telescope.

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  12. They put a stake in the ground to find the shadow to measure the earth and figure out that the earth was a round surface.modern technology help them because they can use the internet. also the GPS and the GIS system to find location and figure out were they are.

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