Key Issues 1.1: Maps & Mapmaking

The science of making maps is:

• demography.
• cartography.
• topography.
• geography.

Scale is:

• the ratio of the largest to smallest areas on a map.
• the system used to transfer locations from a globe to a map.
• the relationship between the length of an object on a map and that feature on the landscape.
• the extent of spread of a phenomenon over a given area.

1:75,000 is an example of what kind of map scale?

• fractional scale
• metric scale
• bar line
• written scale

Which map would have the smallest scale?

• city
• state
• continent
• world

A system for transferring location from a global to a flat map is:

• interruption.
• rendition.
• projection.
• scale.

Distortion is especially severe on:

• globes.
• small-scale maps.
• large-scale maps.
• all maps.

The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite orbiting the planet or from another long-distance method is:

• GIS.
• GPS.
• remote sensing.
• topographic analysis.

A computer system that stores, organizes, retrieves, analyzes, and displays geographic data in layers is:

• GIS.
• GPS.
• remote sensing.
• topographic analysis.

The first person to use the word geography was:

• Aristotle.
• Strabo.
• Carl Sauer.
• Eratosthenes.

Every map projection distorts the surface of Earth in some way.

• True
• False