GEOG 10 Study Guide - Favela Rising, Fertile Crescent, Continental Drift
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Longitude; 0-180 from prime (greenwich meridian) e and w. Maps tell us about people who made them i. e. their ideas and values. Thematic; maps that depict special distribution or relative significance over space of some physical/cultural phenomenon. Reference; maps that show geographic locations of towns, cities etc. Equal area; maps depict relative areas but distort shapes. Most maps in the atlas are a compromise of the 2. Cartographic scale = ratio of distance on the map to distance on the earth"s surface. The smaller the scale, the grater the degree of generalization required to make the map. Simplification; excluding information that is not important for the purposes of the map. Classification; defining different categories of a phenomenon, whether quantitatively or qualitatively. Symbolization; using colors, symbols, line widths etc. to depict various things or relative values. Interpolation/induction; inferring continuous spatial distributions from non- continuous data.
