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  2. Map - Wikipedia

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    Maps of the world or large areas are often either 'political' or 'physical'. The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical map is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type, or land use including infrastructures such as roads, railroads, and buildings.

  3. Thematic map - Wikipedia

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    According to Arthur Robinson, thematic maps were largely an Industrial Age innovation, with some Enlightenment-era roots; almost all of the modern graphical techniques were invented between 1700 and 1850. [6]: 26 Prior to this, the most important cartographic development was the production of accurate general base maps. Their accuracy improved ...

  4. Geography - Wikipedia

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    In physical geography, a place includes all of the physical phenomena that occur in space, including the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. [12] Places do not exist in a vacuum and instead have complex spatial relationships with each other, and place is concerned how a location is situated in relation to all other locations.

  5. Terrain cartography - Wikipedia

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    Web version of Patterson's Physical Map of the Coterminous United States featuring plan oblique relief. Note the appearance of the Rocky Mountains in the full-size version. More recently, Tom Patterson developed a computer-generated technique for mapping terrain inspired by Raisz's work, called plan oblique relief . [ 3 ]

  6. Physiographic region - Wikipedia

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    Physiographic Map from "Geography of Ohio," published in 1923. During the early 1900s, the study of regional-scale geomorphology was termed "physiography". Physiography later was considered to be a portmanteau of "physical" and "geography", and therefore synonymous with physical geography, and the concept became embroiled in controversy surrounding the appropriate concerns of that discipline.

  7. File:CIA World Physical Map (2023).pdf - Wikipedia

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    Original file (6,600 × 3,600 pixels, file size: 3.55 MB, MIME type: application/pdf) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

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  9. National Council for Geographic Education - Wikipedia

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    The NCGE is involved with an effort called the "Roadmap" project, funded by the National Science Foundation through National Geographic, with a goal to create key documents that define what geographic literacy is and why it is important to education and society. NCGE holds a webinar series that is open to all and free to members.