1. Maps

2. Why Do Geographers Use Maps, and What Do Maps Tell Us?
Reference Maps: show locations of places and geographic features
Mental Maps: drawn from memory  reflect a person’s spatial perception
Cartogram: map that is altered to reflect/chart a particular variable
Thematic Maps: tell stories, typically showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomenon
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3. Reference Maps
show specific location of places and other geographic features

4. Mental Maps
Show a person’s internal perception of space.

5. Cartogram
Expands or shrinks the area of locations to demonstrate different types of data.

6. A Cartogram: Population

7. Another type of Cartogram Diarrheal-type Deaths

8. Thematic Maps
Thematic maps are designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area.
several different versions:
Choropleth
Dot-density
Proportional
Isoline

9. Choropleth Maps
Use differences in shading, coloring, or the placing of symbols.

10. Dot-density Maps
Uses dots in a specific area. Each dot is a specific quantity.

11. Proportional Symbol Map
The larger the symbol, the higher the frequency.

12. Isoline Maps
Uses continuous lines joining points of the same value.

13. An Isoline map Temperate climate necessary for prime agricultural land