The Mercator Projection would be a very poor choice for depicting population density because the projections creates large distortions in landmasses near the poles. This issue makes the Mercator Projection inappropriate for showing land area-based data like population densities.

The Mercator Projection was created for ship navigation, so the projection would be a good choice for navigating between Europe and North America by ship. A Mercator Projection could be used to show where Africa is in relation to Europe because the land-mass distortions occur most at the poles. The Mercator Projection is able to depict lines of latitude and longitude effectively. Because the Mercator Projection has substantial distortion at the poles, it would be a good choice for showing the distortion that occurs from creating projections.

The Mercator Projection, designed by Gerardus Mercator in 1569, became the standard map projection used for nautical purposes because it correctly represents true direction everywhere on earth on a two-dimensional plane. It is a conformal map projection, which properly shows all lines of longitude and latitude on a grid plane with correct 90 degree angle crossing points throughout the map.

The Robinson Projection was created by Arthur Robinson, coming late to the map-making game in 1963. Robinson's projection is not an equal-area projection or a conformal projection, but rather is a combination of both. Robinson's projection shows the entire earth and distorts both shape and size slightly to make the two-dimensional representation look the most like the three-dimensional reality of the earth. Robinson's projection, though losing true shape, size, and direction, is the most widely used projection today.

The Conic Projection is not a specific projection, but rather is any map projection which equally spaces meridians radiating out from whatever the apex of the map is. Meanwhile, lines of latitudes (parallels) are mapped as circular arcs centered on the map's apex. Most commonly, the apex of conic map projections is the center of the north or south pole. This projection type is most often used to more accurately map the north or south pole.

The True Map Projection is not a map projection, it is a made-up term for the purposes of this quiz.

The Mollweide Projection was developed by Carl Mollweide in 1805. This map projection is a equal-area and pseudo-cylindrical representation of the earth. Instead of showing accuracy of angle in lines of latitude and longitude, or accuracy of shape, it distorts both of those factors in order to show accuracy of size in area throughout the entire world. It is only on this map projection that one can see the true size of the continents in relation to each other. On all other map projections, the continent of Africa looks much smaller than it actually is, distorting the size and often the shape as well. But with this map projection, the shape might be slightly skewed in order to gain the benefit of seeing the true large size that Africa boasts in comparison to the rest of the world.

African-Americans are most heavily concentrated in the Southeastern region of the United States. The dominance of African-Americans largely stems from the region's historical slavery in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, and the large amount of rural farm laborers into the twentieth century. After a large migration to Northern industrial cities in the mid-twentieth century, the South has seen an influx of young African-American professionals in the twenty-first century.

Many different things can help shape national identity, including history, sports, literature, and national holidays. Papal Bulls are edicts issued by the Pope. The Papal Bull of 1965 urged Catholics to esteem a life of virtue and biblical study. While religious Germany is roughly divided evenly among Catholics and Protestants, neither represents a majority, so we cannot make a claim that the Pope forms anything as widely ubiquitous as Germany's "national identity." Further, in 1965 Germany was divided into the separate nations of East Germany (DDR) and West Germany (FRG), and Catholicism held very little sway in East Germany, a fact that holds true in the eastern part of the country to this day.

The global population of Jewish people is estimated at around thirteen to fourteen million. This is far less than one-percent of the total population of the world. Around six million people belonging to the Jewish population live in Israel and slightly more than five million live in the United States. The rest of the global Jewish population lives in countries affiliated with the European Union (i.e. France, the United Kingdom, and Germany).

“Ethnocentrism” is based on the belief that one’s own culture is inherently superior and that other nations are backwards or underdeveloped because their culture is different. It primarily involves judging a foreign culture by the standards of one’s own culture. It can involve the forced spread of one’s own culture, but it does not have to, it is enough simply to judge another culture by the standards of your own.

The Treaty of Tordesillas was signed shortly after Columbus' expedition to America. It was signed between the two major colonial powers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries- Spain and Portugal. It carved a swathe through the continent of South America, all territory that fell on one side came under Spanish control, and all territory on the other side came under Portuguese control. The modern nation of Brazil represents the vast bulk of the territory originally obtained by Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas and Portuguese remains the official and primarily language of Brazil to this day. The rest of South America (countries such as Colombia, Argentina, Peru, and Chile) all speak Spanish to this day. It is interesting to note then that a mostly arbitrary line, drawn by two colonial powers more than five hundred years ago, continues to have such a dramatic impact on the cultural and linguistic experiences of so many people.

A symbolic landscape is a landscape that has significant meaning beyond what it simply looks like due to cultural associations. The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is seen as the location of important religious moments for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, while also holding the remnants of the ancient Jewish temple and a medieval Islamic mosque. Due to these factors, the Temple Mount is more than just a part of an old city, which makes it a symbolic landscape.

“Toponymy” is the study of place names. Toponymy is useful to cultural geographers because it can help illuminate certain conclusions about an area - such as who its original inhabitants were and where they came from. For example “Los Angeles” is a Spanish name of an American city. This suggests that some of its earlier inhabitants might have been Spanish, or that Los Angeles was once in territory held by the Spanish Empire and so on.

“Environmental determinism” is a theory of cultural geography that was wildly popular during the age of European imperialism. Its proponents argue that cultural traits and societal traditions are primarily informed by environmental differences between different regions.