Skills Flashcards
What is a climate graph?
Climate graphs show average rainfall and temperatures typically experienced in a particular location.
The temperature is shown on a line graph, and rainfall on a bar graph.
They are usually represented on the same set of axes with the months of the year along the base.
What is a cross section graph?
Line graphs that show a sideways view of a landscape e.g. beach profile
What is a rose chart?
They have a central point from which data radiates outwards
What is a choropleth map?
Graph that shows interval data as colours.
They are shaded in using one colour, where the darker shades represent high numbers and the lighter shades represent low numbers
e.g. population density
What is interval data?
Equal difference between numbers in respective scales
(logarithmic scale would be contrary to this)
What is a logarithmic scale?
A scale in which each interval is not equal
the richter scale is an example of logarithmic scale
What is a flow line map?
Maps that show movements from one place to another
flow lines show the exact path of movement**. desire lines show a general direction of movement
What is an isoline map?
A map that presents numerical data cartographically
What are thematic maps?
A thematic map focuses on the spatial variability of a specific distribution or theme
e.g. rocks in UK
