Chapter 1 Mapping

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Chapter 1 Mapping

• Test review

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1) What type of relief and elevation does a

• Mountain have? High/high
• Plain have? low/low
• Plateau have? Low/high

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2) What imaginary line circles the globe halfway
between the north and south poles?

• Prime meridian
• Longitudinal lines
• Equator
• nothing

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3) Lines of latitude run

• North to south
• East to west
• North to west
• South to east

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4) On a topographic map steep slopes are
indicated by

• Lines spaced far apart
• Lines spaced close together
• Circles
• V shapes

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5) What factors determine a areas topography?

• Relief
• Elevation
• Landforms
• All of the above

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6) What term describes the difference in
elevation between the highest and lowest parts of
an area?

• Topography
• Landform
• Plateau
• relief

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7) If one centimeter on a map represents 25,000
centimeters on the ground, the scale of the map
is

• 1 centimeter 2.5 kilometers.
• 1 250,000.
• 1 2,500,000.
• 1 25,000.

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8) The point on Earth's surface having zero
degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude would
be located

• in Greenwich, England.
• at the North Pole.
• where the equator crosses the prime meridian.
• at the South Pole.

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9) New Orleans, Louisiana, and Cairo, Egypt, are
nearly the same distance north of the equator.
This means that the two cities have almost the
same

• elevation.
• projection.
• longitude.
• latitude.

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10) On a Mercator projection, Greenland appears
larger than South America because

• its land area is really greater than that of
  South America.
• all land masses are distorted.
• small land masses are distorted more than large
  ones.
• Mercator projections enlarge areas near the poles.

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11) It would be easy to walk up a slope
represented by contour lines that

• are curved.
• are far apart.
• form closed loops.
• are close together.

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12) For the Global Positioning System (GPS) to
work, at any given time there must be

• GPS units in every car.
• at least three GPS satellites above the horizon.
• GPS units at several different locations.
• an accurate map of the area.

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13) Rivers, lakes, and oceans are part of

• Biosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Lithosphere

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14) What is a contour interval?

• The difference in elevation between two contour
  lines

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Use the map on the next slide to answer these
questions

• 15) If elevation is shown in meters, what is the
  contour interval of the map? 10m
• 16) What is the difference in elevation between
  the school at point A and the house at point B?
  70m
• 17) At high tide during a coming storm, large
  waves are expected to wash up to the 10 m contour
  line. How many buildings will be flooded as a
  result? 8

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