{"id":"study-map-projections-compare","audience":"high-school","category":"studying","technique":"format","track":"study","title":"Compare two map projections line by line","free":false,"task":"Your AP Human Geography quiz asks about map projections. Get exactly 3 numbered lines covering what it keeps accurate, what it distorts and a good use, each in the form 'Feature: Mercator | Gall-Peters', each under 25 words, plain text. Use only your notes, including Ms. Lindgren's correction about Greenland.","materialLabel":"Your AP Human Geography notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"AP HUG - Ms. Lindgren - Unit 1: Maps and projections\n\nEvery flat map distorts something: shape, area, distance or direction.\n\nMERCATOR (1569)\n- Keeps accurate: shape of small areas and direction (straight lines = constant compass direction)\n- Distorts: AREA, especially near the poles\n- I wrote: \"Greenland looks smaller than it really is.\"\n   ** Ms. L: \"Backwards! On Mercator, Greenland looks about as big as Africa, but Africa is about 14 times larger. Greenland looks way TOO BIG.\" **\n- Good for: navigation at sea\n\nGALL-PETERS (1855/1973)\n- Keeps accurate: relative AREA of landmasses\n- Distorts: SHAPE (continents look stretched tall near the equator)\n- Good for: comparing the sizes of countries and continents\n\nNot on this quiz: Robinson, Winkel Tripel (next week).\nQuiz Thursday: identify projection + strengths/weaknesses.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking to compare","why":"The AI writes paragraphs and adds other projections.","fix":"Show the shape: \"Feature: Mercator | Gall-Peters\".","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not saying how many lines","why":"The AI picks its own number, and it usually picks more lines than you need.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 3 numbered lines.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each side: \"each side under 10 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Missing the correction","why":"Your backwards note about Greenland is still in the material.","fix":"Add: \"On Mercator, Greenland looks too big, per Ms. Lindgren.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Letting in other projections","why":"The AI may add Robinson for context.","fix":"Add: \"Only these two, only from my notes.\"","checks":["r2","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many lines","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,25}line"]},{"label":"Shows the line shape","patterns":["\\|","mercator.{0,10}(gall|peters)","like ['\"]","format"]},{"label":"Uses the correction","patterns":["greenland","too big","correct"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]},{"label":"Says to use only the material","patterns":["only.{0,30}(notes|material|source|excerpt|text|reading|passage|draft|facts|article|handout|sheet|guide|chapter|data|list)","no outside","don't add","do not add","don't invent"]}],"hint":"Show the AI the side-by-side line shape, name the three features, and point it to your teacher's correction about Greenland.","rubricLabels":["Has 3 lines covering what each keeps accurate, what each distorts, and a good use, each in the form 'Feature: Mercator | Gall-Peters'","If Greenland is mentioned, it says Mercator makes it look too big (the correction), not smaller","Uses only the notes, with no Robinson or Winkel Tripel and no extra explanation"]}