Unit 1 Geo - Reg Global

Human geographers are MOST interested in

• How a hurricane is created

• How hurricanes destroy coastal landscapes

• How hurricanes influence populations

• How hurricanes can be predicted

Physical geographers are most interested in

• How mountains are created and where they are located

• How humans change mountains to create roads

• How mountains affect the culture of a town’s population

• How mountains are used in religion and religious practices

A systematic method of transferring a spherical surface to a flat map.

• region

• isoline map

• aggregation

• map projection

Map projections

• Are the most accurate maps of the Earth

• Are attempts to represent a spherical Earth on a flat surface

• Always show Greenland and Antarctica as distorted

• Have not been updated since the age of Exploration

Which is the largest scale map, showing the most detail?

• 1:24,000

• 1:100,000

• 1:250,000

The map scale tells you

• When the map was made

• The name of the cartographer

• Where the map data came from

• Distance on the map as compared to distance on the Earth

How many satellite signals does a GPS receiver need to receive to calculate its location?

• 1

• 3

• 9

• 27

How does a GPS receiver express its location?

• Latitude and longitude

• Decimal degrees

• UTM

• In the map coordinate system set by the user

Which continent would you be in if your Latitude/Longitude coordinates ended in South and West?

• Australia

• Africa

• South America

• Asia

Your activity spaces map was an example of

• Reference Map

• Thematic Map

• Topographic Map

• Choropleth Map