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World Geo. Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what do geographers study | people and their environment |
| what is cartography | the study of maps and map making |
| examples of political regions | borders cities, countries, states |
| how is human and physical geo. related | interaction b/w people and their environment |
| region | area w/ one or more common features that makes it different from others (cities, states, continents) |
| examples of funtional region | malss, transit systems, cities |
| a place can be located on a globe by the (blank) of lines of long. and lat. | intersection |
| worlds largest geographical feature | pacific ocean |
| prime meridian | seperates the globe in to longitudinal lines starts at 0 degrees |
| maps | flat representations of all or part of earths surface |
| what do all maps have in common | distortion |
| shortest route b/w any two paces on earth | great circle route |
| what is the distance scale on a map used for | to find exact distance from one place to another |
| maps drawn before 1492 were missing what | continents or oceans |
| population maps | population distribution in different places in a region |
| topography | elevation or shapes of land |
| elevation maps | show the different elevations in an area |
| what map shows true area size but distorts shapes | flat plane |
| contour map | connects points of equal elevation above or below sea level |
| what theme of geo. might a cartographer be interested in | location |
| largest employer of geographers | USGS |
| examples of physical geo. | soils, vegetation, rainfall |
| what are degrees subdivided into | minutes |
| worlds largest island | greenland |
| what type of map would landmasses near the pole show distortion | cylindrical |