Exercise 1

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

An RF of 1:1,000,000 means 1 inch on the map equals 1,000,000 inches in the ground

Which of the following map projection is good for educational uses?

Mercator

Zero degrees longitude is also known as _____

Prime Meridian

Which of the following statements about latitude is incorrect?

The North Pole is located at 180 degrees north latitude

A "large-scale" map shows _____

a small area

Geographers study _____

all of the above

Geographic skills _____

can lead to employment in various fields such as cartography, resource management, planning, intelligent, industrial development, etc

All map projections

distort one or more properties of the map

GIS, one of the most rapidly growing careers in geography, stands for _____

geographic information systems

The growing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change is called _____

globalisation

A small scale map might _____

have a scale of 1:5,000,000

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of geographical analysis?

lithography

The ratio of distance on a map to actual ground distance is known as _____

map scale

Lines of longitude are also known as _____

meridians

Geography as a discipline links the _________________ with the _____________________.

physical sciences; social sciences

Cartographers solve the problem of showing the 3D Earth on a flat piece of paper by using _____

projection

Transferring a globe to a flat map creates distortions. Distortions affect _____

shape, direction, distance, area

Geography studies the relationships between people, places, and environments in a _____ context

spatial

Which of the following is a "systematic" sub field of geography?

urban geography

Central to the studies of geography are the questions _____ and _____

where, why