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Looking Back: Tools of the Geographer

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1. How is data displayed on choropleth and isarithmic maps?

2. What is the purpose of a map projection?

3. What is a GIS? What is a GPS?

4. What is the difference between aerial photographs and remote sensing imagery?

5. What is a model? List a few types of models.

 

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For Citation: Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.
2006. Date visited.  http://www.mritter.net/eolmedia/textbook/title_page.html

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