1.1 APHG

A major disadvantage of the Mercator map is that it

• distorts direction

• is not used very much

• distorts land size

• is used for navigation

What type of map projection is this?

• Peters

• Mercator

• Conic

• Robinson

What describes the exact location of a place, often using longitude and latitude?

• absolute location

• absolute direction

• absolute distance

• relative location

Finds the location of a place using other surrounding places

• GPS

• absolute distance

• relative location

• absolute direction

Which projection has very minimal distortion in the middle latitudes, making it a good map for studying temperate climate zones?

• Fuller

• Robinson

• Mercator

• Conic

When you take a 3D object, like a globe, and put it on a flat surface you get a

• projection

• cartogram

• dot density map

• GPS

Which type of map shows boundaries of states and countries?

• elevation map

• vegetation map

• political map

• physical map

Which type of map is this?

• cartogram

• choropleth

• dot density

• reference

Which map projection does not have much distortion in shape and size?

• Robinson

• Mercator

• Conic

• Peters

Which projection has major shape distortion, but has true land size?

• Robinson

• Conic

• Peters

• Mercator