Topography
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Relief Map | Demonstrate contour of subject area with shaded lines or areas. Can be 3D.
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| Climate Map | Contour lines or shading to demonstrate long-term weather conditions.
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| Political Map | Use lines and or colors to demonstrate the boundaries of political entities (most common type of map). Used to demonstrate political boundaries, populations, and affiliations. ONLY MAP WITH BORDERS.
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| Road Map | (or physical map) Colors, lines, symbols, tints, and shading to demonstrate physical characteristics of the subject area. (Landforms, mountains, lakes, rivers)
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| Cylindrical Projection | Most successful flat maps. Visualizes the globe projected into a cylinder. Equator is tangent to globe and meridians are parallel to each other.
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| Conic Projection | Introduced in 20th Century. Superimpose a cone on the globe, projecting the surface features on a flat map with the parallels as arcs of circles with the pole. Preserve shape and relationship but hard to understand.
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| Equal Area Projection | Most useful projection maps used today. USe horizontal parallels. Usually split mid-ocean to maintain continuity of land masses.
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| Mercator | This person created the 1st projection map in 16th century. Only used today to capture the correct shape of objects.
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| Robinson | Modified equal area projection maps in the 20th century. Technically not equal area but orthophanic. Used by US Geographic Service.
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| Mollweide | 1 of best equal area projection maps. (19th century)
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| Cardinal Direction | N,S,E,W on a map
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| Mountains | A landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak.
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| Rivers | A natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream.
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| Bodies of Water | Streams, Lakes, Rivers, Oceans ...
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| Scale | Relative sizes of map and reality. Small scale = world map. Large scale = street map.
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| Borders | define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal Jurisdictions, such as governments, states or sub-national administrative divisions. Only used on political maps.
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| Continents | Zone of several large landmasses on Earth.
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