Test 1 Flashcards
What is the definition of the word “geography”?
“earth” and “written description”
What are the five themes of geography?
- Location
- Place
- Human-Environment Interaction
- Movement
- Region
What are the tools of geography?
Globes and Maps
What are the two dissections of maps?
Mental and Physical Maps
What do most maps use to be created?
Cylindrical Projection
What maps flattens like an orange peel and has cuts and gaps in it?
Goode’s Projection
What map has everything distorted but only by a little?
Robinson’s projection
This projection is used by placing a cone shaped piece of paper on an imaginary and traces the shadow onto the cone?
Conic Projection
Where is the conic projection most accurate?
Where the cone touches the line
This is also known as the planar projection
The Azimuthal Projection
Where is the azimuthal projection most accurate?
In the center and becomes more and more distorted near the edges
Explain what a mental map is and when it would be used
Answer may vary but should include to communicate directions to a person
What are moderns maps the result of?
GIS
What is GIS
Geographic Information System
What share the three basic types of symbols
Point Symbols
Line Symbols
Area Symbols
Define each of the symbols
Point- cities, builds, wells,
Line- roads, railroads, rivers
Area- bodies of water, glaciers, swamps
Where are the meaning of the symbols shown?
In a legend located in the corner of a map
What are helpful features of a map?
Scale and Compass Rose
What are relief maps?
Maps that show specific changes in elevation
What do cartographers use to iodinate points on a map that have the same altitude
Contour lines of various colors
What is a thematic map?
Record gathered information about a region.
Climate, population, resource, political parties, etc.
What is a culture
The system of customs and traditions and habits o f a group of people;e use to makes something of their world?
True or False
Culture is man’s response to creation
True
What does culture include?
technical knowledge
Social structures
Religion
Philosophy