1. MAP NOTES 9/21 Tab 9 WHAT IS A CARTOGRAPHER?
A CARTOGRAPHER IS A PERSON WHO MAKES MAPS.

2. Physical maps
Display natural features such as mountains and valleys, rivers, and lakes.

3. Physical maps
Display natural features such as mountains and valleys, rivers, and lakes.
Picture the location, size, and shape of natural features.

4. Physical maps
Display natural features such as mountains and valleys, rivers, and lakes.
Picture the location, size, and shape of natural features.
Some physical maps show elevation, or how much above or below sea level a feature is.

5. Physical Map
Political Map
Mercator Projection
Thematic Map: Population
Thematic Map: Agriculture
Robinson Projection

6. Political maps
A map that shows human-made features.

7. Political maps A map that shows human-made features.
They show the boundaries of countries.

8. Political maps A map that shows human-made features.
They show the boundaries of countries.
They also show boundaries of states within a country.

9. Political maps A map that shows human-made features.
They show the boundaries of countries.
They also show boundaries of states within a country.
They also show the locations and names of cities.

10. Thematic maps
A map that focuses on a specific theme, or idea, such as population density or natural resources in an area.

11. Physical Map
Political Map
Mercator Projection
Thematic Map: Population
Thematic Map: Agriculture
Robinson Projection

12. Map projections
Problem: how to convert the round Earth to a flat map

13. Map projections Problem: how to convert the round Earth to a flat map
Solution: map projections

14. Mercator Projection
Cylindrical map projection

15. Mercator Projection Cylindrical map projection
Useful for navigation because it maintains accurate direction

16. Mercator Projection Cylindrical map projection
Useful for navigation because it maintains accurate direction
Famous for their distortion in area that makes landmasses at the poles appear oversized

17. Mercator Projection

18. Robinson Projection
Attempts to balance several possible projection errors.

19. Robinson Projection
Attempts to balance several possible projection errors.
Does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each.

20. Robinson Projection
Attempts to balance several possible projection errors.
Does not maintain completely accurate area, shape, distance, or direction, but it minimizes errors in each.
Used by National Geographic

21. Robinson Projection

22. Physical Map
Political Map
Mercator Projection
Thematic Map: Population
Thematic Map: Agriculture
Robinson Projection

23. Your assignment: Get out a clean sheet of paper.
Write your name in the top right-hand corner.

24. Your assignment:
Find three political maps in the green textbook. Write down the page numbers on your paper.
Find three physical maps in the green textbook. Write down the page numbers on your paper.