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True-False Quiz

This True-False Quiz is designed to reinforce the knowledge you gained while reading Chapter 2, Portraying Earth.

This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
The relationship between the map distance and the corresponding distance on the ground is known as the scale.
   
 
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Question 2.
Satellite imaging is the science of obtaining reliable measurements from photographs.
   
 
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Question 3.
The property of equivalence portrays accurate size while distorting shapes.
   
 
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Question 4.
Isolines may cross each other in high turbulence.
   
 
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Question 5.
The interruption of projections is used to illustrate the continents in an equal area projection.
   
 
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Question 6.
Conformal maps distort the sizes of continents in high latitudes.
   
 
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Question 7.
Thermal infrared imagery has the poorest spatial resolution because of the wavelength it uses.
   
 
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Question 8.
Aerial photography of Earth's surface taken from an angle other than straight down is termed oblique.
   
 
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Question 9.
Radar senses energy in wavelengths longer than 1 angstrom.
   
 
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Question 10.
A graphic scale remains correct even if the map is enlarged or reduced when reproduced.
   
 
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