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The document discusses different types of maps used in geography, including political maps that show governmental boundaries, physical maps that depict landforms and terrain, and thematic maps that represent data using symbols or colors. It describes common map elements like titles, legends, scales, and compass roses. The document provides examples of different map types and explains how to interpret maps.

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All About Maps: Please Copy All Notes Written

The document discusses different types of maps used in geography, including political maps that show governmental boundaries, physical maps that depict landforms and terrain, and thematic maps that represent data using symbols or colors. It describes common map elements like titles, legends, scales, and compass roses. The document provides examples of different map types and explains how to interpret maps.

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All About Maps

Please copy all notes written RED


Performance Based Objective

 Identify the themes of human geography IOT


explain the basic skills of a geographer
Standard and Vocab

 HG.1.1.HS Identify and analyze the spatial


distributions and patterns of human
population using maps and geographic
models and representations.
 Human geography
 Reference map
 Thematic map
Learning Targets:
 Describe the characteristics and uses of various types of maps,
for example:
 political
 physical
 elevation/topographic
 natural resource
 Dot density
 Choropleth
 Use a map key/legend, symbols, distance scale, and boundaries
to interpret a map.
 • Use a compass rose and cardinal or intermediate directions to
interpret a map.
Parts of a Map

 Title
 Compass rose
 Legend or Key
 Scale
Title

 Shows the subject of a map

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC


Compose Rose

A compass rose is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to


display the orientation of the cardinal directions—North, East, South, and West—and
their intermediate points. See if you can
Figure out the abbreviations that would

 go in the other rectangles that

represent the other cardinal and

intermediate directions.
Map Legend

 A map legend is like a key


to the meaning of a map. It
tells what all the symbols
mean.
Scale
► Maps are made to scale; that is, they
tell the distance between places on a
map.
► Scale shows the ratio between a unit of

length on the map and a unit of


distance on the earth
Maps
 Maps-a two dimensional or flat scale model
of the earth’s surface
 Globe-scale model of the earth
 Great Circle Route-shortest distance between
2 points on the earth
Map vs Globe

 Maps are portable


 Maps are detailed
 Maps can be distorted and are flat
 Can see all places at once

 Globes hard to carry


 Globes shows the world as it appears from
space
 Globes are not as detailed
What is a political map?

 Political maps are designed to


 - Show governmental boundaries of
countries, states, and counties,
 Show the location of major cities,
 They usually include significant bodies of
water.
 Bright colors are often used to help the user
find the borders.
Example of a political map.
What is a physical map?
 Physical maps are designed to show the
physical features of an area
 (location of landforms like deserts, mountains
and plains.)
 country borders
 major cities
 significant bodies of water
 On the linked map in the next slide, note the
Pyrenees Mountains, the mountains in central
France and the Alps. These types of landforms are
not included on political maps.
Physical Map
What is an elevation or topographic
map?
 The shape of the earth’s surface is shown
with contour lines.
 Contours are imaginary lines that join points
of equal elevation on the surface of the land
above or below a reference surface, such as
mean sea level.
 Contours make it possible to measure the
height of mountains, depths of the ocean
bottom, and steepness of slopes.
So. Carolina topographic map from
1885
What are natural resources?
 “Natural Resources come from nature and are
used to make things that we need.”
 They are “materials or substances such as minerals,
forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and
can be used for economic gain.” Oxford Press Dictionary
Example of a natural resource map
Dot density maps can normalize the data by
letting each dot represent 1 million people.
the more dots, the more people in that state. Can
be arranged in specific locations in the state too
Graduated color maps or Choropleth maps

a map that uses


differences in shading,
coloring, or the placing of
symbols within predefined
areas to indicate the
average values of a
property or quantity in
those areas
The top map uses a
monochromatic intensity ramp to
represent various increasing
amounts of annual rainfall
The bottom is a two toned color
ramp of the same data, with yellow
= dryer and green = wetter
Natural Resource Map
Climate Map of the World
Closing

 Name 2 types of maps and describe them


 You can write on the same paper that you
wrote the Bell Ringer on
Mental Map

 You have 2 options for your mental map:


 Visually map your ideal neighborhood.
Visually map a route around your favorite
place to visit
 Include a key and a compass
 Use an unlined sheet of paper 8x10 or larger
 Use color (it is not enough to use pen or
pencil)
 Be creative!

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