Maps and Mapping Exam 1 Questions and
Answers | Latest 2024
Transformative View - ANSWER Map readers cannot understand if map isn't
simple
Cognitive view - ANSWER Teach map reading, don't simplify maps
Qualitative - ANSWER Perceptions, based on names, or nonnumeric
characteristics
Quantitative - ANSWER Perceptions or facts based on
numeric measurements
Scale - ANSWER Relationship between the length of a
feature on a map versus the length of that
feature on the ground
Representative Fraction - ANSWER 1:24,000
No units required
Verbal Scale - ANSWER 1 inch to 5 miles
Scale is described with appropriate units
for the map and earth
, Graphic Scale - ANSWER Bar scale or Variable scale. Draws the map unit on the
map and do not state it
Nominal - ANSWER Have names only: qualitative
differences are recognized only
- Voter registration by party
- Soils
- Land cover
Ordinal - ANSWER The lowest level of quantitative data in that they give
implied rank
- high, medium, low
- near, far
- more, less
- strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree
Interval - ANSWER Uses numbers and amount of
difference between numbers, but have no "0" that
is meaningful
- Dates
- Celsius and Fahrenheit Temperature
- Earth Grid systems
Ratio - ANSWER Uses numeric scales like interval, but
Answers | Latest 2024
Transformative View - ANSWER Map readers cannot understand if map isn't
simple
Cognitive view - ANSWER Teach map reading, don't simplify maps
Qualitative - ANSWER Perceptions, based on names, or nonnumeric
characteristics
Quantitative - ANSWER Perceptions or facts based on
numeric measurements
Scale - ANSWER Relationship between the length of a
feature on a map versus the length of that
feature on the ground
Representative Fraction - ANSWER 1:24,000
No units required
Verbal Scale - ANSWER 1 inch to 5 miles
Scale is described with appropriate units
for the map and earth
, Graphic Scale - ANSWER Bar scale or Variable scale. Draws the map unit on the
map and do not state it
Nominal - ANSWER Have names only: qualitative
differences are recognized only
- Voter registration by party
- Soils
- Land cover
Ordinal - ANSWER The lowest level of quantitative data in that they give
implied rank
- high, medium, low
- near, far
- more, less
- strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree
Interval - ANSWER Uses numbers and amount of
difference between numbers, but have no "0" that
is meaningful
- Dates
- Celsius and Fahrenheit Temperature
- Earth Grid systems
Ratio - ANSWER Uses numeric scales like interval, but
