How Do Maps Direct Or Create Reality

Mounika Thatha

Mr.Miltion

CIA 9

Sep 10, 2014

Do Maps Reflect or Create Reality?

There are many similarities and differences between physical and political maps. The physical and political map is a Mercator Projection, they both have the outline of each continent, land, sea, rivers, lakes, oceans and some basic major features. Each map has its own purpose. The physical map is there to show geographical perspective of out earth and see what makes up our surface. This map has many presents us with landforms like deserts, mountains, plains, lakes, rivers, valleys, vegetation zones, sea depth, forests, canyons, ranges, elevated regions, water, terrain and many more. To display there landforms, the cartographers use colors, shades, raise and

These maps give us information on how our earth is dived up. A major difference between these two maps is that political maps are man-made, like borders, their man-made, but in a physical map, it doesn't contain man-made things. The physical maps are good for mountaineers and pilots. The political map is useful for travelers and people who are visiting the places. Maps in general change all the time. There are more changes in political maps than in physical maps, because physical maps are based on our land which has a slow rate in change, but in political maps, there are conflicts and uniting places all the time, which makes the political maps less accurate and keep on changing. So Basically, all these maps are useful in different situations and for certain people. There are some similarities and a lot of differences between the two maps. Each map has its own purpose and where it is supposed to be

On a physical map you can’t see the boundaries that you are able to see in a political map. On special purpose map, you don’t see either mountains or political boundaries. But then again the cartographers choose to do it this may because they might’ve not know how to fit every thing on one map, which I'm sure is one of the reasons why Google Earth is created. A map is basically a person point of view on the world, and who ever the person was that made these maps might’ve had different assumptions on the world.

I think the Physical map represents the world best, because it shows you the land on our planet, and it also gives basic border and things like that. Features on a certain place is shown on a physical map. These features tell you what kind of area your’r dealing with. This map also shows the land forms, water bodies, terrain and elevation. The biggest point in a physical map is that it has raises and dips in the illustrations of mountain, canyons, valleys, ocean depts. This helps us with navigation. In general maps these days take a bit out of each map and make it so thats it is useful for the general