1. World Cultural Geography
Types of Maps
World Cultural Geography

2. Reference Maps Reference Maps
These types of maps allow you to find places of interest
Roads, Cities, Landmarks, public transportation, and various other locals

4. Navigational Maps Navigational Maps
These types of maps are often used by ships and airplanes.
These types of maps help you plot coordinates and set a route for travel.

6. Physical Maps
Physical maps help you see the types of landforms and bodies of water found in a specific area
By looking at these you can see relative location and characteristics of a region
Color, Shading or contour lines are used to indicate elevation or altitude.

7. Political Maps
Political Maps show features on the earth’s surface that humans created
Things that can be included on political maps include:
Cities
States
Provinces
Territories
Countries

8. Thematic Maps Thematic Maps (3 types)
These type of maps allow you to see data on a map.
These type of maps also allow you to see a visual representation of certain trends in a location.

10. Thematic Maps Qualitative Maps
These use colors, symbols, dots, or lines to help see patterns related to specific data.

13. Thematic Maps Cartograms
In these geographers present information about a country based on a set of data other than land. The size country is drawn in proportion to the size of the data.

17. Thematic Maps Flow-Line Maps
These show the movement of people, ideas, animals and goods.

20. Map Poem
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