In general what does a physical map show that a political map doesn't?
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A physical map shows physical features such as mountain ranges, etc. A political map shows man-made boundaries such as state lines, etc.
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http://www.wall-maps.com/Classroom/US/US_physical_map.htm
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If we confine ourselves to only the surfaces of planets and minor bodies, the answer is virtually all of the surface area in our solar system has been mapped at least at some resolution. The Planetary Cartography Working Group has identified over 1.9 billion square kilometers of stable surfaces in the solar system, not including the atmospheric features of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and of this total, all but a few percent have been mapped at resolutions of 10 - 100 meters or lower. Some surfaces such as the Moon and the Earth, have been mapped at substantially higher resolution.\n\nThis means that there are very few surprises left for us to 'see for the first time' in this solar system. Now comes the hard job of geophysically and minerologically assaying these surfaces to determine their chemical composition and how they got to be the way they are!
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Surface maps only show the conditions near the surface (1000 mb), jet streams and upper level pressure systems have more to do with weather than surface conditions.  The winds and pressures at different elevations can vary greatly from those at the surface.
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Nice.  Now, to answer your question...\n\nThe previous post pointed out that there will be more lines in a mountainous area than on a plain, IF the contour intervals are the same.\n\nSince the lines are further apart on a plain, the mapmakers have the opportunity to decrease the contour interval to provide more detail.  In a mountainous area, decreasing the contour interval would make the map unreadable, since there would be too many lines.
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The two different globes are Geographical and the other political. The geographic globe shows where countries are. The political globe shows their borders and cities etc.
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Jamie is right. Here is a little more info and a link where you can see a road density map:\n\n"In fact, there are so many roads that a detailed regional map cannot be shown on a single page. Instead, the regional distribution of roads is indicated by using a coarse-scale indicator of relative road density. On this map, bright colors indicate places that have higher road density, and dark colors indicate places with lower road density. It is immediately apparent that roads are not distributed uniformly throughout the region; their locations are directly comparable to the maps of population, elevation, and land cover shown earlier. There are more roads in urban areas than in rural areas, and there are more roads in the eastern half of the region than in the western half."
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This depends on the source of the map, who produced it, and what the map was created for.\n\nObviously, a "topographical map" shows topography, which essentially means the lie of the land, which is shown with contour lines.  So even the most basic topographic map will represent the terrain of that area in the map.\n\nTopographic maps have many uses, though -- they are used for hiking, using off-road vehicles, construction, and even some flying.  For these purposes, they can include other "layers" of information on top of the topography, such as hydrography (water features), vegetation, and planimetry (landmarks made by humans).  \n\nBy combining these features with the topographical information you can learn many different things, such as which way a stream flows.
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physical features are stuff like mountains, lakes, deserts, islands, etc.
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Take the test and find out where you are on the political map. Interesting stuff.
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use the legend to read the map\nlegend tells u what the symbols represent on the map
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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 is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type or land use. Geological maps show not only the physical surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures.\n\nMaps that depict the surface of the Earth also use a projection, a way of translating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture. Perhaps the best-known world-map projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a form of nautical chart.\n\nAirplane pilots use aeronautical charts based on a Lambert conformal conic projection, in which a cone is laid over the section of the earth to be mapped. The cone intersects the sphere (the earth) at one or two parallels which are chosen as standard lines. This allows the pilots to plot a great-circle route approximation on a flat, two-dimensional chart.
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for most of the politicans its difficult to be truthful.for example in india 90% of polictians are not truthful.theycharacter can be estimated by there background .some of them have bad histories. recently some politicans have been accused of taking of bribes.unless the values of the politicans change the country cant cannot develop\nthey to be faithfull to the people who elected them
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Because in some cases there were no natural physical features like rivers or mountain ranges when the boundaries were determined.  Usually boundaries run along such features.
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depends on the variable, you could use a dot density map or a cartogram or a choropleth map, or evenanother type of map
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I've seen a lot of maps that do mention it.\n\nOf course, at the moment it should be listed _in addition to_, not _instead of_ Israel. One problem is the rather non-contiguous nature of the present Palestinian state: a bit here, a bit there. Some parts firmy under PA control, some still effectively parts of Israel. It's pretty difficult to draw a map saying 'Palestine starts here and Israel ends here'. Although political reasons do exist, I think it's more of a practical consideration than anything else. A lot of cartographers choose to point out the Gaza Strip and the West Bank - the two parts that make up Palestine - under those names.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ug-map.png