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Reading Thematic Maps: How they can tell geographers everything

Climate map (Page 550)

What do the colors on this thematic map represent?

Near which parallels of latitude are most tropical climates located?

Where are the ice cap and tundra climates of the world?

Why do you think the tropics and tundra are located there?

Where are the highlands climates located?

What is the Climate in our area of California?

Physical Feature Maps (page 546)

What do you see on this map, what stands out?

What do you think the colors stand for? (hint look at the legend)

what is the highest elevation? how do you know that?

What physical feature has the highest elevation?

What other physical features do you notice?

Are the physical features and elevation related somehow?

what questions does this map cause you to think?

Examples of Thematic maps

What is a Thematic map?

There are many different types of thematic maps:

Physical features (Page 546)

Political boundaries (Page 548)

Climate Zones (550)

Vegetation Zones (552)

Population density (554)

Economic activity (556)

Population Density (page 554)

Economic (page 556)

A thematic map is simply a map projection with a certain theme. Thus it is THEM(E)-matic

How did John Snow use thematic maps to solve the cholera outbreak?

What do the colors represent?

Which Continent has the lowest population density?

What is the most populated city?

What is the most densely populated area?

Why are they different?

What does the colors on this map tell us?

What do those symbols represent?

Where do you find coal? how do we know that?

What sort of ways do we use land in California?

Vegetation Mao (page 552)

What do the colors on this map represent>

Where is desert scrub vegetation found?

Why do you think that it is?

What types of vegetation do we have here in California?

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