Atlas For Geography

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Anatlas is a book or collection of maps. Many atlases also contain facts and history about certain places. There are many kinds of specialized atlases, such as road atlases and historical atlases. There are also star atlases, which give the location and placement of stars, planets and other celestial objects.

Besides showing maps of all the countries and continents, a world atlas may also provide facts about the countries. Individual maps of major cities or other points of interest may also be included in a world atlas. Population statistics, the location of natural resources, cultural and religious information and political data are frequently found in an atlas.

Although people have been using maps for thousands of years, civilizations really didnt begin producing large atlases until the 1500s. During this time, European and Asian countries were exploring the world through trade and colonization. They depended on atlases to guide them through unfamiliar territory. As European explorers mapped the "New World" (the Americas), they also updated atlases with their discoveries.

In 1595, a collection of maps prepared by the Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator was published with the word "atlas" in the title. Atlas referred to a portrait of King Atlas, a mythical African monarch. King Atlas invented the first celestial globe. A celestial globe is a ball-shaped map of the stars and constellations. Celestial globes were very important in navigation, when sailors used stars to determine their position at sea. Mercator showed King Atlas to demonstrate his importance to navigation. This was the first time the term was applied to a collection of maps. Eventually, "atlas" came to be used for any book of maps.

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Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries was firstpublished in London by the firm of Hodder and Stoughton in 1869. The atlasconsists of twelve maps of European countries, each with a unique nationalstereotype created by the author based on the the outline and shape of thecountry. Each image is accompanied by a short verse describing the authorscreation.

In the introduction to the atlas, the author, William Harvey, writing underthe pseudonym Aleph, described his intention in creating the atlas: It isbelieved that illustrations of Geography may be rendered educational, and proveof service to young Scholars who commonly think Globes and Maps but wearisomeaids to knowledge. If these geographical puzzles excite the mirth of children,the amusement of the moment may lead to the profitable curiosity of youthfulstudents and embue the mind with a healthful taste for foreign lands.

The resulting fanciful caricatures include England in the form of QueenVictoria; Scotland as a gallant Piper struggling through the bogs; Wales in theform of Owen Glendowr; Ireland as a Peasant, happy in her babys smile; Franceas an Empress of cooks, fashions, and the dance; Spain and Portugal joined inlasting amity; Italy as a revolutionary figure complete with liberty cap;Prussia in the personages of Friedrich Wilhelm and Prime Minister Bismarck;Holland and Belgium as female figures who represent a land . . . and perfectart made grand; Denmark as a female figure with ice skates; and Russia as theclassic bear.

This application is an interactive digital atlas that enables users to generate geographic maps of cancer rates, risk factors for cancer, screening statistics, and other geographical data related to cancer. The system offers free data download for research purposes.

The Cancer Atlas map is not accessible to users of assistive technologies, however all statistics displayed in the application are available as data tables in an accessible table view. This page can also produce CSV file downloads of any selected data.

If the statistics that you are interested in are not available in this tool, SEER provides cancer statistics in a variety of formats. See Statistical Summaries, Interactive Tools and Publications for more options.

After your student has a concept of the world with blob mapping, you will want to focus on drawing each continent in greater detail. For this, we recommend Draw the World.

To learn how to draw each continent freehand, check out the Chalk Pastels Membership (which includes hundreds of simple art projects to reinforce history, literature, science, and other subjects.) For more resources for world geography, world missions, and world cultures, visit the geography section of our website.

This map of botanical geography, derived from the work of German geographer Alexander von Humboldt and Danish botanist Joakim Frederik Schouw, is from Heinrich Berghaus's three-volume Physikalischer Atlas (Gotha, 1845), the first atlas to portray the physical geography of the world. Consisting of some ninety maps, the atlas is divided into eight sections: meteorology and climatology, hydrology and hydrography, geology, earth magnetism, botanical geography, zoological geography, anthropogeography, and ethnography.

The rise of thematic or special purpose cartography, which focuses on mapping the distribution of single or multiple interrelated phenomena, had its origins in the advances in the natural sciences in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly with the collection of vast amounts of scientific data and the search for innovative techniques of presenting this data graphically. Examples of early physical geography atlases in the Library include Alexander von Humboldt's Atlas gographique et physique du royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne (Paris, 1811), which records his observations during a 1799 to 1804 expedition to South and Central America; Heinrich Berghaus's three-volume Physikalischer Atlas (Gotha, 1845 1848), the first atlas to portray the physical geography of the world; Alexander Keith Johnston's Physical Atlas (Edinburgh, 1848), an English adaptation of the Berghaus atlas; and Traugott Broome's Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt's Kosmos [Stuttgart, 1851 1853], which was prepared to accompany Humboldt's five-volume Kosmos, a complete physical geography of the universe.

The focus of thematic atlases expanded to include the broad geographical topics of population, culture, agriculture, land use, and transportation. In the United States, the first atlases focusing exclusively on population were the U.S. Census Office's Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Ninth Census 1870 (New York, 1874), compiled by Francis A. Walker, and Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States (New York, 1883), compiled by Fletcher W. Hewes and Henry H. Gannett from the 1880 census. Subsequent statistical atlases were published by the U.S. Census Office for the 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1920 censuses. In recent years, more specialized atlases have appeared including such topics as religion, archaeology, skiing, water management, and ocean resources.

The Energy and Industry Geography Lab is a tool for geographical data related to energy, industry and infrastructure. The tool makes it possible to find and filter energy-related data, and create and share maps displaying this data.

Where does the EU consume energy? The Joint Research Centre has produced a high-resolution atlas of energy supply and demand across the EU: a first of its kind, working at a scale not previously thought possible.

This story map gives you a taste of the energy atlas, explain the methodology used and showcases some of the results. All datasets can also be found in the JRC Data Catalogue and are also available on the Energy and Industry Geography Lab.

The Map Trek Set includes an atlas of historical maps from Creation to the present and a book of student activities. This is a resource any parent or teacher can easily use while teaching history or geography with brilliant success. Students of every age will benefit from the full-color maps and outlines.

Map Trek includes over 200 full-color maps, divided into four periods of time: Ancient World, Medieval World, New World, and Modern World. There is a comprehensive table of contents to help you find exactly what you need and a detailed glossary of terms.

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Information on 217,174 microscopically diagnosed cancers diagnosed in 2001-2002 was collected from pathology laboratories in 68 districts across India. Data collection took place primarily via the Internet. Average annual age-adjusted incidence rates for microscopically diagnosed cases (MAAR) by gender and site were calculated for each of the 593 districts in the country. The rates were compared to those from established population based cancer registries (PBCR). In 82 districts, the MAAR for 'all cancer sites' was above a "completeness" threshold of 36.2/100,000 (based on results of a rural PBCR). The results confirmed some known features of the geography of cancer in India, and brought to light new ones. Cancers of the mouth and tongue are particularly frequent in both genders in the southern states. Very high rates of nasopharynx cancer were found in the northeastern states (Nagaland, Manipur). There was clear geographic correlation between the rates of cervical and penile cancer, and a high rate of stomach and lung cancer (in both genders) in many districts of Mizoram State. The area of high risk for gallbladder cancer seems larger than suspected previously, involving a wide band of northern India. There is a belt of high incidence of thyroid cancer in females in southwest coastal districts. Other than identifying possible existence of high-risk areas of specific cancers, our study has recognized places where PBCR could be established. The study was remarkably cost-effective and the electronic data-capture methodology provides a model for health informatics in the setting of a developing country.

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