Unit 1 Review Sheet Flashcards
Define Cartography
The science of mapmaking
Define Scale
The relationship between a unit on a map to what it is in real life.
1:24,000 is an example of what kind of scale?
Ratio
What civilizations can the origins of geography be traced back to?
Ancient Greeks and Middle Easterns
What are the advantages of the Mercator Projection Map?
Direction and shape are accurate, the map is rectangular
GPS systems are what type of locations?
Absolute (Mathematical)
Give an example of a large and a small scale map.
Large: Neighborhood
Small: Atlas
Why is every map projection distorted?
The world is round, whereas a map is flat
Lines of Longitude and Latitude are examples of what kind of location?
Absolute
Define globalization
Actions that involve the world in making something worldwide
To geographers, is the spread of McDonald’s worldwide economic or cultural globalization or both
Both, this represents American culture and economic spreading
A system for transferring locations from a globe to a flat map is called?
Projection
Four things that describe the vernacular of the south
Dialect, Religion, Sweet Tea, Warm weather
What is the township and range system?
Has to have city limits defined. Each side was 6 miles
What type of region is it when you move closer to the border?`
Functional
