Types of Maps and Location

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What is absolute location?

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The exact location on Earth

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What is relative location?

Back

Location to something more well known

Front

Which is a political map?

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A map that shows boundary lines, like where one place ends and another begins.

Front

A physical map shows what information?

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A map that shows Earth's features such as rivers and mountains.

Front

A population distribution map shows what information?

Back

Where people are located around the world.

Front

A population density map shows what information?

Back

How many people are in an area.

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An economic activity map shows what information?

Back

What people work at for a living.

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A precipitation map shows us what information?

Back

How much rain, snow, sleet, or hail ( all moisture) falls in an area.

Front

A first hand account of any event is considered a?

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Primary source

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Contour lines on a map indicate what changes?

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Elevation