Political Maps- show and label human-created boundaries and designations such as countries, capitals…, Physical maps- show and label natural features such as mountains and rivers…, Road maps show and label highways, streets…, Plat maps show and label property lines and details of land ownership, Choropleth maps use colors, shades, or patterns to show the location and distribution of spatial data. Often have rates or quantitative data in defined areas., Dot Distribution maps show the specific location and distribution of something across space. Each dot represents a specific quantity., Graduated symbol maps use symbols of different sizes to indicate different amounts of something. Larger size means more of it., Isoline maps use lines that connect points of equal value to depict variations in the data across space (weather maps, topographic), Cartograms the size of the country (or states, counties, etc…) are shown according to some specific statistic like population, birth or death rate, carbon pollution, etc…,

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