What is a Gnomic projection?
A flat plane touching the globe at a point.
What is a Cylindric projection?
A flat map wrapped around the globe at a great circle.
What is a Conic projection?
A map projection surface shaped like a cone; middle latitude
False cylindrical projection
Maps that do not preserve the actual shape of features.
Robinson
What is the most popular false cylindrical projection map?
What is topographic information?
Information shown by contour lines or by color.
Names, boundaries, and shapes
What does political information show?
Names, Sybil’s and locations of features
What does geographical information focus on?
Elevation, relief, and contour.
What are the interchangeable terms for elevation?
Depth
What do contour lines show?
Theme on map
What is the unifying idea in geography?
Geographic Information System
What does GIS stand for?
A. Computerized data
B. Trained people
C. Stored up data
What are the three parts of GIS?
Government, businesses, news and weather, military.
What are the four uses of maps
polygons
Data stored as paint, lines, or areas bounded by straight line segments.
Distance, correction, size, shape
What are the four distortions in map projections?
.lap projection
A geometric process that transfers cylinder, pane, cone to a flat map
What is an equatorial projection?
A projection that touches or wraps around the equator.
What is a polar projection?
A projection that touches a pole.
What is an oblique projection?
A projection that touches somewhere between the equator and a pole.
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