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