• Physical maps: Show locations and names of natural features

• Dot distribution maps: represent a range of different features.

• Political maps: show the location and names of built features on the earth. This may include country borders, state and territory borders, cities, and towns.

• Flow maps: Show movement

• Choropleth maps: use different shades of the same colour. The darkest shades show the highest value. - Overlay maps: show how the earth's features may be related to each other. Need a base map and tracing paper

• Topographic maps: show the shape of land by using contour lines.

• Weather maps: show conditions in atmosphere

• Thematic maps: show a particular theme or topic

Features that all maps have:

• All of the maps show some form of data

• They all have a key/legend

• They are all taken or shown in plan view: Directly above

• They all have direction shown in compass/orientation

• They all have a scale e.g. 1cm = 1km

• They all have a title

• They all show where the information is from

• Symbols to represent something

• All show some sort of geographical feature

• All have a border

BOLTSS

• Border

• Orientation

• Legend (key)

• Scale

• Source (where it sisfrom