Loading...
Geographical Maps & GlobesLoading...
Loading...
Nikita Hatley
Why are maps and globes used to study geography?
Geography Geographers use maps and globes to measure and describe Earth. Geographers use maps to see natural and human-made features and to understand patterns. Geography Maps have changed over time to reflect people's increasing understanding of the world.
A map is an abstract representation of a selected set of features on or related to the surface of the Earth. The map reduces these selected Earth features to points, lines, and areas, using a number of visual resources such as size, shape, value, texture or pattern, color, orientation, and shape.
Maps and Globes helps you learn much about a country, including information about its landforms, bodies of water, natural resources and climate. A major part of geography concerns the technical aspects of map construction.
Geography maps reduced generalized depictions of the earth's surface on a plane showing the distribution and the combinations and relationships of natural and social phenomena, which have been selected and described in accordance with the purpose of a particular map.