Map Skills Review (Types of Maps)

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Cartography

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The science of map making

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What are the two MAIN types of maps?

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Thematic and Reference

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What does a thematic map show?

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Specific themes/subjects along with information and data

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What does a reference map display?

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Location of spatial phenomena to show where things are

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What are the 5 types of Thematic maps?

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Choropleth, Contour, Graduated Symbol, Dot Density, Cartogram

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Thematic or Reference?

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Thematic

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Thematic or Reference

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Reference

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What is a cartogram?

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Distorts the geographic area of regions based on a specific variable.

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Dot Density maps are...

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Thematic maps that use dots of the same size to represent certain data and show the intensity of the feature

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Contour maps use lines to...

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represent quantities of equal value