One of the things that we learned about the concept of scale is that: Question 20 options: the main reason geographers are interested in scale is because it helps them read maps the scale at which we choose to view an issue strongly affects, and sometimes determines, how we understand it when we analyze the impact that activities taking place at one scale have on activities taking place on another, we find that global activities impact local activities, but not vice versa the global scale is more important than the local scale