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Surveyor Practice Test: Cartographic Projection
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Surveyor Practice Test: Cartographic Projection
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1. What is the purpose of the theory of cartographic projection?
2. Who degenerate in to circles?
3. Which projection uses the equidistant parallel lines for showing the meridians?
4. Which is a particular case of azimuthal projection?
5. Where were the scientific foundations of cartographic laid?
6. Which aspect of planar projection has the plane oriented the perpendicular to the equatorial plane?
7. Which is the representation of the entire surface of the earth's ellipsoid on a plane?
8. Which is the most direct path between two locations across the surface of the globe?
9. What are the factors on which the use and selection of cartographic projections depend?
10. Which is known as planar projection?
11. Which is the normal aspect of the conic projection?
12. Which are the special points of geographic co-ordination?
13. Which projections are used often for mapping polar regions?
14. Which cylindrical projection is used in navigation?
15. Which aspect of conic projection has an orientation between transverse between polar asperts?
16. Which is used to represents the greatcircle in orthodromic projection?
17. Which formulas give a general method for obtaining the derivatives of the projections?
18. Which projections preserve directions from one or two points?
19. What is the study and practice of making maps?
20. How many secant lines are formed in the secantcase of cylindrical projection?
21. Which determine the nature of permissible distortion in the cartographic projection?
22. What is the expansion of TMP?
23. Which was considered to be the oldest cartographic projections?
24. Which is used for general cartographic surveys?
25. What is the condition for the oblique projection?