Chapter 1 key issue 1
- 1. Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 1 How Do Geographers Address Where Things Are? 1. Define map: 2. Define cartography: 3. Complete the matrix below by describing contributions to cartography through the ages: Contributions to Cartography in History Babylonians Greeks Chinese Muslims Age of Discovery (15th Century) 4. What is the advantage of a map which shows only a small portion of the earth’s surface – like a neighborhood – that is a large-scale map? 5. What advantage does a map which shows the entire globe, a small-scale map, have? 6. When geographers convert the round earth to a flat map, they use a projection. All projections have some distortion (only a globe has none). List the four things that typically become distorted in various projections: 32
- 2. 7. The two most important projections are the Mercator and Robinson. Complete the table below to compare their advantages and disadvantages of these two projections. Mercator Robinson Advantages Disadvantages 8. With regard to the Land Ordinance of 1785, which became the official survey system for the United States, define the following, township and sections: 9. Geographers use a GIS (Geographic Information system) to store layers of data. Give three examples of types of data stored in a single layer. 10. Remotely sensed images consist of pixels. What is the smallest area on the surface of the earth that can be scanned as a single pixel? 11. List several things that geographers can map using remotely sensed data. Leave Blank Feed into the printer upside down. Glue this area and paste into the notebook.
- 3. Leave Blank This page will be glued under the flap of the handout for Chapter 1: Key Issue 1. Complete the following regarding Global Positioning System: Global Positioning System elements/components uses/implementation