Geography and language
A television world map can distort area and distance
A flat world map cannot preserve every property of a curved Earth.
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Geography and language journal articles — page 12
Choose a practical article about geography and language. These topic indexes complement the six-article journal pages.
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Geography and language
A wildlife status label needs a species, scope and date
A species can be abundant in a filmed location while facing threats across a wider range, or scarce locally while less threatened globally.
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Language population figures: which census question was asked?
A programme’s count of people with a mother tongue can differ from its count of people using that language at home.
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Oral history: date the interview and the remembered event
An oral-history interview is a source for a person’s recollections and perspective.
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A museum fossil display can include casts
A complete-looking skeleton on screen need not consist entirely of original fossil material from one discovery.
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Coordinates on screen: decimal degrees and minutes differ
A location copied from a documentary can land in the wrong place if degrees, minutes and seconds are read as decimal degrees.
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