APHG Unit 1 Quiz

the science and art of drawing maps

• Cartography
• physical map
• Geospatial
• Cartogram Map

a place name

• Toponym
• road map
• Quantitative data
• graduated symbol map

a pattern formed on a map or globe, by lines of latitude (parallels) and lines of latitude (meridians)

• Global Grid System
• Thematic maps
• Census
• Projection

distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees

• Latitude / Parallels
• types of thematic maps
• Qualitative data
• Mercator Projection

Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees

• Longitude / meridians
• Chloropleth Map
• Case study
• Gall-Peters Projection

an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.

• Equator
• Isoline Map
• 3 Types of Distribution
• Robinson Projection

The meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.

• Prime Meridian
• Dot Distribution Map
• Density
• Scale

the line of longitude that marks where each new day begins, centered on the 180th meridian

• International Date Line
• Cartogram Map
• Concentration
• Absolute location

maps that emphasizes the location of places (without data attached).

• Reference map
• graduated symbol map
• pattern
• Relative location

Political map, Physical map, Road Map

• Examples of reference maps
• Projection
• Cultural Landscape
• Absolute distance