1. TYPES OF MAPS AND PROJECTIONS

2. TYPES OF MAPS Projections Political Physical Thematic Chloropleth map, cartograms, flow line, isoline, dot, GIS, GPS

3. Chloropleth Map

5. Spending per capita on secondary education Cartograms

6. World population, 1500 World Population, 2002

7. Wealth, 1960 Projected wealth, 2015 GDP Per Capita, 2000

8. Infants who die between 1 – 4.

9. Dot maps

10. Dot map

11. Each dot = 50,000 people Dot map

12. Isoline maps

13. Flow line maps

14. World map of Erastosthones What is peculiar? Note grid lines. Oriented to the East. Why? The sun rises in the East.

15. World Map of Eratosthenes 200 BC Note grid lines. First meridian at Alexandria Caspian Sea connected to a world ocean. Based on info gathered by Alexander the Great Circumference 25,000 miles

16. Ptolmey’s World Map Circumference of the Earth, 14,000 miles

17. GIS -- Global Information Systems - “layered” maps Using “remote sensing” satellite photos.

18. What is wrong with this map?

19. Mercator Projection

20. Robinson Projection

21. How to lie with maps. The size of maps can be deceptive.

22. Name the major country that is not shown on this Arab map printed recently. Why? Arab countries do not recognize Israel’s right to exist.

23. What is wrong with this map?

24. Which map is correct?

25. With a partner, create a cartogram of the population of you assigned countries. 1.United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Germany, Poland, Hungary 2.France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Romania, Greece 3.Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Egypt 4.China, India, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam 5.Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Oman 6.Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan 7.Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Chad, Mali 8.Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d I’voire, Cameroon, Congo 9.South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Kenya 10.Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile 11.Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica