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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What type of information is shown on cartograms (all cartograms, not just this one)?
Per Capital Calorie Consumption
Consumption Patterns
Numerical Data
Country Size and Shape
What map freely distorts shapes, directions, and areas to display statistics?
Thematic maps
Road maps
Cartograms
Physical maps
Which type of maps would be best suited for displaying a particular set of information such as temperature, GDP, or ethnicity in a particular geographic area?
Reference maps
Thematic maps
Identify the Mercator projection.
A Cartogram is
a map made by an astronomer
a mapmaker
a map that adjusts the size of a country to show an amount of a topic (e.g., total number of people)
a map that shows population density (e.g. total number of people per square mile)
Which of the following is an example of a cartogram?
Urbanization is the...
Increase in the population of cities
Decrease in the population of cities
The decrease in agriculture areas
The increase in agriculture areas
What is an urban area?
Land that includes woods, beaches, crops.
Land covered by buildings, roads, and homes.
An area with a lot of shopping malls.
An area with many forests.
What sort of a cartogram is this?
Contiguous
Non-contiguous
Dorling
What sort of a cartogram is this?
Contiguous
Non-contiguous
Dorling
What sort of a cartogram is this?
Contiguous
Non-contiguous
Dorling
What sort of a cartogram is this?
Contiguous
Non-contiguous
Dorling
What sort of a cartogram is this?
Contiguous
Non-contiguous
Dorling
A type of map that uses changes the size of countries based on the data being shown.
Cartograms
GIS Maps
Choropleth
Topographic
