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Show the contour of the area with contour lines, shading, or raised relief (3-dimensional) to indicate elevation and shape.
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Use contour lines or shading to demonstrate long-term weather conditions.
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WGU IOC4 Module 8a
WGU IOC4 Module 8a Maps
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Show the contour of the area with contour lines, shading, or raised relief (3-dimensional) to indicate elevation and shape. | Relief Map |
| Use contour lines or shading to demonstrate long-term weather conditions. | Climate Map |
| Use contour lines and colors to demonstrate elevation. Include elevation data for artificial structures. | Topographical Map |
| Use lines or colors to demonstrate the boundaries of political entites, such as countries, states, cities, boundaries, populations, and affiliations. Most common type of map. | Political Map |
| Shows the roads, highways, and often distances between cities. | Road Map |
| A map projection that uses an unrolled cylindrical surface. The meridians of longitude which converge at the pole on a globe, are all parallel. | Cylindrical Projection |
| Introduced in the 20th century, superimposed a cone on the global surface.Meridians appear as straight lines converging on one point. Preserve shape and relationship, but fail to show relationship to the globe. | Conic Projection |
| Utilize horizontal parallels to project the globe. Offereasy understanding because of a familiar perspective. | Equal Area Projection |
| The first (cylindrical) projection map created in the 16th Century by Gerard Mercator. Preserved basic shape, but distorted the size increasingly towards the poles. | Mercator |
| Created a modified version of the Mollweide map by creating an orthophanic (right appearing) map that sacrifices some precision for the sake of appearance. | Robinson |
| A 19th century cartographer credited with creating one of the best equal-area map projections. Maps of this type are often named after him. | Mollweide |
| One of the four principal compass points north, south, east, and west; also called cardinal point. | Cardinal Direction |
| A graduated line, as on a map, representing proportionate size. | Scale |
| Demonstrate physical characteristics of the subject area such as mountains, lakes, and rivers. | Physical Maps |
| The simplest solution to representing the world without distortion. Scale presents problems for anything beyond geo-positioning. | Globe |
| The process of tracing the lines from a three dimensional object onto a two-dimensional surface | Map projection |
| Current mapping technologies that are quickly overcoming most obstacles to scale, dimension, and relation. | GPS, Satelite Cartography, Global Imaging, Google Maps |
| An organization that furthers the theory the Earth is flat rather than a sphere. The modern organization was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956. | Flat Earth Society |
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