Geography

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Some notes by YouTube.

Made by: Dihein Perera

Different types of maps
1. Political Map-

A map that shows the locations of the world’s countries,

their borders, and major cities

2. Relief Map-

A map that uses a gradient of colors to show landforms on

Earth’s surface.
They use a different color to show elevation.
Darker = More elevation (more taller)
It shows the height of a landform compared to sea level.
3. Topography-

The features of an area, like mountains and rivers.

4. Topographic map-

A map that shows the shape of features on earth’s

surface, using contour lines.
- While relief maps show it using gradient colors,
topographic show it in patterns.
EXTRA INFO!!!
In a topographic map, each contour line represents a set
difference in elevation, like 100 feet. Every time you move to
the next contour line on the map, the elevation changes by
that amount.
E.g.:
(imagine there is a blue area, a green area and a yellow area)
In other words, if this blue area is having an elevation of 400
feet, then the green area is 500 feet, and the yellow area is
600 feet, and the next band up would have an elevation of?
700 feet. When contour lines are closer together, they show
that the elevation is changing very quickly. That means in
places like this, the landscape must be a steep hill.

Each band of contour lines of a topographic map represents

an area of the same elevation.
What happens when contour lines form a closed loop?
Since each contour line represents a change in elevation,
these loops basically represent a place where elevation stops
increasing, and starts decreasing on the other side. In other
words, they represent hilltops and mountain peaks.