Areas near both the equator and prime meridian are accurate, but the distortion gets worse the further you go from either. This attempt at creating a faithful world ... map onto a torus. This keeps ...

The first thing to keep in mind is that ocean currents are ... have trouble crossing the equator, but they can. The answer for why they usually don’t involves a concept that’s relatively new in the ...

Identifying the seven continents, five oceans, the Equator, the Northern and ... teachers could use a base map to explore the make up of the world and where the features explored in the video ...