Map+Projections


 * Map Projection**

What is cartography?The art of mapmaking

What is a cartographic map projection?Representing the surface of the map/what or where it is on.

Why is the Earth’s shape called a spheroid or oblate ellipsoid?Because its shape and its surface.

How is latitude measured? What does it show?It is measured from across a map, it shows where things are exactly using numbers and letters.

What are the Earth’s hemispheres? **What separates the hemispheres**?There is the Northern, and Southern Hemispheres. The direction on a compass.

Explain why the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer are important.Based upon the suns position on the earth in the year.

Why doesn’t the sun set at the Antarctic Circle on December 21?The winter solstice **What is this? Why does this happen?**

What is the accepted Prime Meridian? **Why is this a convenient location**?Its the vertical equater pretty much.

Why do all map projections have distortion? **What things are distorted**?Different ways of presenting a map.

Why are Mercator maps often used incorrectly as world maps? How should it be used? Why?Cause there confusing and flat. IM CONFUSED

Look at the Equidistant Cylindrical map. What happens to the actually distance the farther north or south of the Equator you measure? Why?

Why is the shortest distance between two points on a map usually not a straight line? Explain.

What are the pros and cons of using a conformal map?