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REPR OF SPACE QUEST

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What is an EXCLAVE? A part of a country entirely surrounded by foreign territory viewed from the position of the home country.
What is an ENCLAVE? A territory with people who have a different nationality or culture from the people living in the surrounding country or city.
How does the MERCATOR MAP GRID distort geographical reality? It exaggerates the extent of higher latitudes and it compresses the lower latitudes.
What is the positive aspect of the MOLLWEIDE EQUAL AREA PROJECTION? It accurately depicts the areas/continents.
What is CARTOGRAPHY? The art and science of representing and recording the divisions of space.
What gives maps an inherent political character? They can store and reproduce information about the world at countless scales. They can relate these information to one another. Their possession confers power and knowledge.
Why are maps distortive and selective? DISTORTIVE: Curved image cannot be transferred onto a flat surface; SELECTIVE: Not all information is included in any map.
What is a BROWNFIELD? Disused land or property (sometimes polluted) waiting to be re-developed.
Why can most of the political maps be biased? Maps often reflect reality filtered through their creators' worldview.
What is the problem with small-scale maps? They may give rise to a wrong impression about distances.
How does the PETERS ORTOGRAPHIC MAP distort reality? It emphasizes the equatorial and tropical latitudes to the detriment of the higher latitudes.
Why has the Peters projection acquired ideological political content? It has been used to demonstrate that underdeveloed areas lie between the two tropical lines.
What is the merit of the NARUKAWA AUTHAGRAPH map? It is an equal area map, on which each point can be at the centre.
What is TERRITORIALITY? It is a key process in every human society. It is a strategy of exercising power by an individual or a group over a section of space and its contents,
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