Mapping
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| show | Map
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| show | Cartography
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| A collection of maps | show 🗑
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| show | As a reference or communications tool
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| What are the four essential elements used on all maps? | show 🗑
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| Map element that lets the map reader know the purpose of the map | show 🗑
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| show | scale
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| show | legend or key
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| Map element that lets the map reader know the orientation (N, S, E, W) of the map | show 🗑
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| show | Ratio or Fraction Scale
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| show | Written Scale
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| show | Graphic Scale
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| Includes the primary directions of north, south, east, and west | show 🗑
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| Includes the secondary directions of northeast, southeast, northwest, and northeast | show 🗑
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| show | Distortion
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| show | Conformal
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| show | polar
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| A Mercator map projection is an example of a _________________ map. | show 🗑
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| show | Equal-Area
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| show | Equal-Area
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| show | Equidistant
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| True or False: Maps of the world can show all distances accurately. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | Azimuthal
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| show | edges
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| A Polar projection is an example of a _______________ map. | show 🗑
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| What are the four basic categories of map projections? | show 🗑
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| show | longitude, poles
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| show | True
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| show | False
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| This map projection is accurate at the point of contact on a globe and distortion increases as you move away from the center. | show 🗑
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| show | Compromise
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| show | Robinson and Winkel Tripel
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| It is once of the most commonly used projections. It increasingly distorts size and distances as it moves away from the Equator. | show 🗑
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| show | Greenland
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| Mercator maps do show true direction and shapes of landmasses, making these maps useful for ____________________. | show 🗑
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| show | Robinson Projection
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| show | sizes
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| This map projection was created as an alternative to the Mercator projection. By using this new projection, poorer, less powerful nations could be restored to their rightful proportions. | show 🗑
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| show | size, shapes
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| show | cylindrical
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| It is a pseudocylindrical projection in which the Equator is represented as a straight horizontal line perpendicular to the central meridian. | show 🗑
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| show | distribution
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| This map projection is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area composite map projection which is normally presented with multiple interruptions. | show 🗑
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| show | distances
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| This map projection's goal is to minimize three kinds of distortion: size, direction, and distance. | show 🗑
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| This map projection, commonly called a Polar projection, has useful properties that all points of the map are at proportionately correct distances from the center point. | show 🗑
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| show | Flat-Plane or Planar
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| show | general, special
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| A ____________ map shows landforms like mountains, hills, plateaus, plains, etc. | show 🗑
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| A __________ map shows topics such as plate tectonics, earthquakes, or volcanoes. | show 🗑
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| show | Weather
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| show | road/street, subway, railroad, shipping, air travel
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| Name the four types of land use maps. | show 🗑
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| Name the four types of population maps. | show 🗑
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| A ______________ map shows topics such as unemployment, taxes, GDP, or income | show 🗑
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