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The location of a place using the latitude-longitude grid is called:
A. referenced location
A. central location
A. relative location
A. absolute location
grid location
The location of a place in relationship to other places or features around it is called:
absolute location
relative location
site
situation
central location
The process of the spread of an idea and/or dissemination of an innovation from its source area to other cultures, is the process of cultural:
diffusion
simultaion
adaptation
movement
region
What is the term for attempting to fit a 3D image onto a 2D surface?
Cartogram
Projection
Globe
Map Scale
All of the following are types of map distortion except for
size
distance
shape
consistency
direction
Places that share similar characteristics are called
human systems
environments
regions
physical systems
satellite nations
Which of the following shows places on the Earth's surface the most accurately?
thematic maps
globes
general-purpose maps
physical maps
mercator
Imaginary vertical line that passes through Greenwich and England and has a value of 0 degrees
latitude
longitude
scale
prime meridian
equator
What are lines on a globe drawn in an east-west direction and measured in degrees?
equator
parallels
meridians
longitude
mercators
what type of map is this?
Isoline
Cartogram
Graduated Symbol
Dot
None of the above
1) The map projection used by Google Maps is the ______.
Mercator
Winkel
Goode Homolosine
Gall- Peters
Robinson
The map projection with the greatest amount of distortion at the poles, although visually appealing because of its nice, straight lines, is called _____.
Mercator
Gall-Peters
Azimuthal
Goode Homolosine
Winkel
The science of making maps is known as
cartographer
cartography
distortion
map projection
cartogram
The inventor of the word geography, and one who accepted the Earth was round is
Thucydides
Eratosthenes
Strabo
Kevin Sorbo
Christopher Columbus
The acquisition of data about Earth's surface from a satellite, spacecraft, or specially equipped high-altitude balloon is
geotagging
GIS
USFL
IPMPCW
remote sensing
Which of the following maps would have the largest scale?
world
continent
country
city
Which of the following is not a theme of geography?
region
location
resource management
human environmental interaction
space
What two purposes do maps serve?
communications and thematic tool
communications and inept tool
communications and reference tool
This person argued that the world was shaped like a cylinder
Thales of Miletus
Anaximander
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Ibn Battuta
This person was the first to demonstrate the Earth was spherical on the basis of evidence.
Ptolemy
Ibn Battuta
Anaximander
Eratosthenus
Aristotle
The picture is a world map by which of the following
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Yu Gong
Al-Idris
Waldseemuler
Who wrote Rihla, book based on three decades of hourneys through Northern Africa, southern Europe, and much of Asia?
Ptolemy
Ibn Battuta
Waldseemuler
Eratosthenus
This stores captures, stores, and displays data. Each type of information is stored by layer. It creates accurate maps.
GPS
GIScience
mashup
GIS
PGIS
What is the identification and storage of a piece of information by its precise latitude and longitude coordinates.
geotagging
GIScience
remote sensing
mashup
photogrammetry
What type of map projection is this?de
Mercator
Winkel
Gall-Peters
Goode Homolosine
What type of map is this?
isoline
choropleth
graduated symbol
cartogram
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