Tools
This box explains what various symbols on a map stand for
what is a legend?
The mapmaker whose system is still used today
Who is Mercator?
This is the system of customs, traditions, and habits that a group of people uses to make something of
their world
What is culture?
When people subdue the earth together as the Creation Mandate requires, this emerges.
What is culture?
This is the projection minimizes all four types of distortion
What is Robinson's?
This term refers to the height and depth of land features in relation to surrounding land
What is a relief?
Any method used to show the earth’s round surface on a flat map
What is a map projection?
This is the view that all cultures are equally good and that each culture has its own truths and values that those in other cultures must always accept as valid
What is multiculturalism?
This states that we are to be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the earth.
What is the Creation Mandate?
A typical globe is covered by twelve strips of this
What are gores?
To determine the distance between two places on a map, one should look for the map’s
what is its scale?
The main problem with any flat map
What is distortion?
These are elements of culture that develop around rules, design, and structure
What are institutions?
This is the human response to God and His revelation.
What is religion?
This is the first important cylindrical map projection
Mercator's
Lines that separate colors on a relief map
What are contour lines?
This is not something that can be distorted on a map
What is the grid?
This is the pleasing of one or more senses
What is Aesthetic or beauty?
This is the reference for the Creation Mandate
This map is useful for showing wide regions
What is conic?
any imaginary line that cuts the earth into two hemispheres
What is the great circle?
This refers to the height and depth of land features in relation to surrounding land
What is a relief map?
What are religion, institutions, social groups, aesthetics, and physical environment?
This is where culture and religions were originally divided
This is also known as planar projection and is most accurate in the center
What is an azimuthal projection?