How To Read Different Maps

A topographical map is best for... 

• displaying human-built structures

• displaying the physical environment

Choropleth maps are especially useful for communicating quantitative data in preset regions.

• True

• False

Dot maps reveal distribution or density. The _____ dots in an area, the _______ the quantity of what's being measured.

• more; smaller

  
  

  
  

• more; smaller

  
  

• more; larger

If we were to look at a cartogram map of how many dairy farms are in each state, Wisconsin would likely appear as _______ on the cartogram map than Texas.

• larger

  
  

• smaller

  
  

A flow line map would be best used to display which of the following: 

• Which neighborhoods in Milwaukee are majority-African American

  
  

• How African Americans voted in the 2016 presidential election

  
  

• The migration of African Americans from the South to the North from 1890-1930