Exam 2: Portraying Earth

Microwave imagery is ideally suited for sensing ________.

You wish to navigate your yacht from Europe to the United States. Which type of map projection would be most useful?

Which of the following is essential for GPS to function?

The type of remote sensing which penetrates clouds at night for accurate terrain representation is ________.

Which remote sensing technology demonstrates universal applicability to most problems?

Which of the following is an advantage of radar over all other remote sensing techniques?

GPS was originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense to guide missiles.

The representative fraction equivalent to the statement "one inch equals one mile" is ________.

The scale of 1:63,360 is the same as one inch equals ________.

A loxodrome is

Which of the following would be used for overlay map analysis where two or more map layers are superimposed or integrated?

Which of the below, because of the wavelengths it uses, tends to have the low spatial resolution of Earth surface features?

There is no possible way to avoid distortion on a map projection.

Satellite data are analyzed in individual pieces representing several to many meters on the Earth's surface. These pieces are known as

For the geographer, the new mapping tools like remote sensing, GPS, and GIS are best viewed as

It is important that all maps have their meridians parallel to each other as they extend east to west.

On large scale maps, equivalence and conformity can be

A map is usually much smaller than the part of the Earth's surface it represents.

A disadvantage of globes compared to maps is that globes are not

On which type of aerial imagery would a football field of artificial grass be discernible from natural grass?