Unit 1: Thinking Geographically Chapter 1: Topic 1.1 (1/2) Flashcards
Designed for people to refer to for general information about places
Reference Maps
Show and label human-created boundaries and designations, such as countries, states, cities and, capitals
Political Maps
Show and label natural features, such as mountains, rivers and deserts
Physical Maps
Show and label highways, streets, and alleys
Road Maps
Show and label property lines and details of land ownership
Plat Maps
Show spatial aspects of information or of a phenomenon
Thematic Maps
Use various colors, shades of one color, or pattern to show the location and distribution of spatial data, often show rates or other quantitative data.
Choropleth Maps
Show the specific location and distribution of something across a map. Each dot represents a specified quantity. Any kind of symbol can be used for these types of maps.
Dot Distribution Maps
Use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something. Larger sizes indicate more and smaller sizes indicate less. They make it easy to see where the largest and smallest of some phenomena are by comparing the symbols to each other.
Graduated Symbol Maps
Lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space. Where lines are close together, the map depicts rapid change, and where the lines are farther apart, the phenomenon is relatively the same.
Isoline Maps
Points of equal elevation, creating contours that depict surface features
Topographic Maps
The sizes of countries (or states, counties, or other areal units) are shown according to some specific statistic.
Cartogram
Ratio between the size of things in the real world and the size of those same things on a map
Scale
A larger amount of area with less detail
Small-scale Maps
Smaller amount of area with greater amount of detail
Large-scale Maps
