Key Vocabulary Quiz #1

What is a representation?

• The wording on a map explaining the symbols
• A particular position or point in space
• A description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way
• A report or description of an event or experience

What does it mean that the Earth is three-dimensional?

• It has length and width but no depth. 
• It has length, width, and depth.
• It has a circumference.
• It has a diameter and radius.

What does is mean that a map is two-dimensional?

• It has length and width but no depth.
• It has length, width, and depth.
• It has right angles and is flat.
• It is inaccurate and has distortions.

What is a map?

• a particular attitude or way of seeing or regarding something
• a depiction of the earth on a spherical object
• a geographic tool that tells you where to go
• a visual representation of an area; not the actual place

What is the definition of continent?

• any school subject where knowledge is passed down
• all the land masses on the Earth
• any of the Earth's continuous expanses of land
• any of the large land masses surrounded by water

What is the purpose of a map key/legend?

• It explains every symbol shown on the map.
• It uses GPS to show you where to go.
• It uses specific wording to give directions on a map.
• It explains the elevation of a particular place on a map.

In the social studies, what is an account?

• the way a particular place is illustrated
• an explanation or meaning of something
• something that happened in the past
• a report or description of an event or experience

What is the geographic definition of place?

• a visual representation of an area
• a particular position or point in space 
• the exact location on the earth
• a description of human and physical characteristics

What does it mean that each of us experiences things through our own perspective/point of view? 

• It means everyone sees somethings the same and somethings differently.
• It means each of us must work hard to give an account of an event
• It means each of us has a particular attitude or way of regarding or seeing something
• It means that all visual representations are a lie.

What does a cartographer make?

• globes
• pictographs
• maps
• map keys/legends