AP Human Geo Maps in the Modern World

Identify the group of reference maps.

• political, physical, road, plat and locator maps.

• cartograms, choropleths and dot distribution maps.

Which type of maps would be best suited for displaying a particular set of information such as temperature, GDP, ethnicity or religious groups in a particular geographic area?

• reference maps

• thematic maps

Identify the choropleth.

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Which of the following maps would be best suited for displaying the exact location of dense populations with minimal distortion of the geographic area?

• cartogram

• dot distribution map

• choropleth

Which of the following maps would be best suited for displaying topographic information such as elevation and mountain ranges?

• Cartogram

• graduated symbol

• isoline

• dot distribution map

What is a similarity shared by graduated symbol maps and cartograms?

• great deal of distortion

• use of symbols to illustrate data

• used to show proportional information for comparing data of various geographic areas

• use of dots to show the concentrations of various phenomena

Identify the Mercator projection.

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Although the Mercator Projection is useful for navigation, one weakness is...

• distortion along the poles.

• distortion along the equator.

• distortion of shapes to show scale of data.

Which of the following projections features zero distortion of shapes?

• Mercator projection

• Gall-Peters

• Impossible: All projections feature some distortion of shapes.

• Goode's Homolosine.

Who is this world famous educator who is beloved and appreciated by all his students, even Elijah who failed to provide him with Ipads?

• Chris Hemsworth

• Mr. MacCormack

• Chris Hemsworth

• Chris Hemsworth