1. Do Now:
Rank the maps on the back of your sheet, then give evidence to explain your rankings.
Have outs
TONIGHT’s Homework
Pencil, Notebook, Binder
Catch up on outline
Pages 14-18

2. Review: Five Themes of Geography
Location
Place
Region
Human-Environment Interaction
Movement

3. Extra: Cultural Landscape
Cultural landscape = the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape
Ex. Sequent occupance: when multiple societies leave an imprint on a place

4. Mumbai, India (left) and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (right).
Figure 1.9
Mumbai, India (left) and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (right).
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5. Day 4: Maps & Cartography
AP Human Geography
Day 4: Maps & Cartography

6. Key Point #1: Maps
Maps are a tool used by geographers to represent spatial patterns and process at different scales

7. Scale

8. Key Point #2: The Problem
All map projections distort spatial relationships (space, area, distance, or direction.
Example: the Mercator projection distorts size

9. The Robinson Projection is hard to see poles

10. A polar map is useful for pilots, but you can’t see the entire world!

11. Key Point #4: Types of Maps
Reference
Thematic

12. Key Point #5: Reference Maps
Reference Maps: show location of places and geographic features
Physical
Political

13. Key Point #6: Thematic Maps
Thematic Maps: tell stories, showing the degree of a movement or attribute
Dot
Cholropleth
Isolene
Graduated Symbol
Cartogram

14. Dot Map
Uses dots to represent a phenomenon or feature

15. Chloropleth Map
Difference in shading and coloring to indicated quantity

16. Cartogram
A map where the theme is substituted for land area

17. Graduated Symbol
Where symbols change in size proportional to the value they represent

18. Isoline Map
A map where lines connect things of equal value