WorksheetsAP Human Geo Maps in the Modern World
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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.
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.
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
