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Different Types of Maps and their Usage

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    Different types of maps and their usage
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  • What is a map?
    Pictures of the earth that inform us about different areas and their details
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  • What map shows information about government and politics?
    Political map
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  • What map shows an area's weather over a long period of time?
    Climate Map
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  • What map shoes the locations of landforms and features like rivers, mountains?
    Physical map
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  • What type of map shows natural resources or economies?
    Resource/Economic map
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  • What type of map shows how many people live in an area?
    Population map
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  • What are 2 things you could learn from a political map?
    Political parties, voting, etc.
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  • What are 2 things you could learn from a climate map?
    Temperature, rain, snowfall, etc.
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  • What 2 things could you learn from a physical map?
    Landforms, rivers, lakes, oceean, mountains, etc
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  • What 2 things could you learn from a resource map?
    Natural resources like oil, minerals, diamonds, fresh water, trees, etc.
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  • What 2 things can you learn from a population map?
    People...where they live, work, play, etc
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  • What type of map would show what people believe about God?
    Religion map
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  • What would an ethnicity map show?
    Ethnicity, what people's heritage is in an area
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  • On what map would you find the Rocky Mountains?
    Physical or Climate
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  • What map would you use to determine what the Great Plains adds to the economy?
    Resource or economic activity map
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  • What map would a presidential candidate find helpful?
    Political, resources, population
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