Mapping Skills Flashcards
What is GIS?
Geographic Information system - a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth’s surface.
What is GPS.
Global Positioning System - a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions
What is Remote Sensing?
The scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it.
What are the Cardinal and Ordinal points?
The four cardinal directions form the points of the compass. The (ordinal) directions are northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW), and northwest (NW).
What is a Cartographer?
The study and practice of making maps.
What is map projection?
The attempt to portray the surface of the earth or a portion of the earth on a flat surface
What is a Political Map?
Two of the most common forms are political and physical maps. Political maps are designed to show governmental boundaries of countries, states and counties. They can also indicate the location of major cities, and they usually include significant bodies of water.
What is a Topographic Map?
In modern mapping, a topographic map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, using contour lines but, historically, using a variety of methods. Traditional definitions require a topographic map to show both natural and man-made features.
What are map grids?
A map grid can be a grid of geographic or projected coordinates, or a reference grid like those found in street maps.
What is the Gazetteer?
The index of an atlas.
What are the 24 Time Zones?
Time Zones are a geographical world globe division of 15 degrees each, starting at Greenwich, in England, created to help people know what time is it now in another part of the world.
What is Central Time Zone?
The Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Time in the zone is six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time - GMT).
What is a Thematic Map?
A thematic map is a type of map especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area.
What is Latitude?
The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth’s equator.
What is Longitude?
The angular distance of a place east or west of the Prime Meridian.
