Geography 1

A "large-scale map" shows __

A small area

Geographical skills __

Can lead to employment in varied fields such as cartography, resource management, planning, intelligence, industrial development, etc

All map projections __

Distort one or more properties of the map

GIS, one of the most rapidly growing industries in the US stands for __

Geographic Information Systems

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

Globbalization

A small map scale might ___

Have a scale of 1:5,000,000

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

Lithography

Geographers study __

Location, place, region, human-environment interactions

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

Map scale

Lines of longitude are also known as __

Meridans

Geography as a discipline links the __ with the __

Physical sciences ; social sciences

Zero degrees of longitude is also referred to as __

Prime Meridian

Cartographers solve the problems of showing the 3D Earth on a flat paper by using __

Projection

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

Robinson

Transferring a globe to a flat map creates distortions. Distortions affect __ (properties) of a map

Shape, distance, area and direction

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

Spatial

Which of the following statements about map scale is incorrect?

The map scale 1:100,000,000 is a larger scale than one of 1:2,000,000

Which of the following statements about latitude is correct?

The north pole is located at 180 degrees north latitude

Which of the following is a "systematic" subfield of geography?

Urban geography

Central to the study of geography are the questions _ and _

Where; why