Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
Maps, Maps, Maps!
Isoline MapThis is a Isoline map for Suriname. It shows the annual rainfall in inches. (UTexas.edu) An Isoline map uses lines to connect similar points locations with similar values. Isoline maps are usually used to represent surface elevations, temperature, and to measure depth of bodies of water.
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Cartogram A cartogram is a thematic map where geographic size is altered to be proportional to a different variable than land size. Geographic space itself is warped, sometimes extremely, in order to visualize the distribution of said variable.
This is a cartograph of Suriname which represents the population. The total population of Suriname is approximately 613,000 people, 240,00 of those people (just over 1/3) live in the capital, Paramaribo. This map shows that the grand majority of people living in Suriname live in Paramaribo, it does this distorting the land. |