Template for Lab 1 and 2
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Rilind Rugova
Professor Pangallozzi
GEOG 101
August 24, 2023
Template for Lab 1 and 2
The ‘Links to Lab’ file
Questions
Link 1.1
1.
How would you characterize the nature of Wegener’s education?
2.
How do you think his education might have influenced his work in geology?
3.
Briefly explain the theory of continental drift and how it changed our understanding of
the Earth.
4.
How did the delay in mapmaking from Challenger data impede understanding of earth
dynamics?
Link 1.2
5.
On what material was the map originally available in 1890?
6.
Describe how the map shows marshy areas.
7.
Look at the various hills on the map (Monday Hill, Beech Hill, Turkey Hill, Sawyers Hill,
etc.) and describe how the cartographer indicates elevation. Note the ‘contour’ interval
at the bottom of the map in your answer A contour interval is the vertical distance or
difference in elevation between contour lines.
8.
How does the map portray elevation changes below the surface of water?
9.
At the bottom of the map, what does ‘scale’ mean?
Questions 10-15 are to be described in your own words.
Link 1.2
10.
Describe a choropleth map.
Link 1.2b
11.
Describe a dot distribution map
12.
Describe a graduated symbol map.
a.
How does a graduated symbol map differ from a proportional symbol map?
Link 1.2d
13.
Describe an isoline map.
Link 1.2e
14.
Describe a cartograph.
Link 1.2f
15.
Describe a dasymetric map.
Link 1.3a
through
Link 1.4c
16.
What organizations created the County Health Rankings?
17.
Are the organizations in the field of public health?
18.
Would they generally be considered to have the authority to create the data?
Link 1.2a
,
Link 1.4d
,
Link 1.4d_2
19.
What appears to be the primary statistic used to create the county health rankings?
20.
New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago are the largest cities in the U.S. in terms of
population. Judging by life expectancy, is public health in these cities better or worse
than average?
21.
What factor that explains the low life expectancy of these purple counties is apparent
from the maps that came up in your google search?
a.
(Hint: The counties in New Mexico and Arizona with the lowest life expectancy
share the same issue.)
22.
Submit the instant app here link.
a.
Loss of a full point if link is broken.
23.
Explain the Modified Areal Unit Problem. Look at the three graphics shown in link 1.4g.
24.
List three ways discussed by Deluca and Nelson in which maps can be manipulated.
Link 1.5
,
Link 1.6
, &
Link 1.7
25.
Describe the differences between the maps of disease prevalence at links 1.6 and 1.7.
26.
Which map is better?
Link 1.3c
, Link 1.3c_2,
Link 1.8
27.
List the geographies
–
other than the continental, contiguous United States
–
covered by
the bathymetric layer.
28.
Submit the map, using the same instructions as above, including the entire extent of the
US Bathymetric layer.
a.
Map must be seen to receive credit.
Link 1.9, Link 1.10, Link 1.11
,
Link 1.12
29.
What is a csv file and why is it useful?
30.
What is a centroid?
31.
What does it mean to make the following observation: The centroid of population in the
U.S. has been moving steadily westward since the Revolution of 1776?
32.
What does the map tell you about the global distribution of the great-grandparents of
students in the class?
33.
Submit the map. (No credit received if map is not able to be viewed.)
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