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how will the globe help you???​

Answer 1

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• The advantage of the globe is that it promotes visual accuracy.

• Students use a globe frequently to form accurate 'mental maps'.

• Lines of latitude and longitude appear on your globe only at certain intervals; otherwise, they would cover up all other map detail.

More Information :

• A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or the celestial sphere.

• Globes serve purposes similar to some maps, but unlike maps, do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down.

• A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe. A model globe of the celestial sphere is called a celestial globe.

• A globe shows details of its subject. A terrestrial globe shows landmasses and water bodies. It might show nations and major cities and the network of latitude and longitude lines.

• Some have raised relief to show mountains and other large landforms.

• A celestial globe shows notable stars, and may also show positions of other prominent astronomical objects.

• Typically, it will also divide the celestial sphere into constellations.

• The word globe comes from the Latin word globus, meaning "sphere".

• Globes have a long history.

• The first known mention of a globe is from Strabo, describing the Globe of Crates from about 150 BC.

• The oldest surviving terrestrial globe is the Erdapfel, wrought by Martin Behaim in 1492.

• The oldest surviving celestial globe sits atop the Farnese Atlas, carved in the 2nd century Roman Empire.

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