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What are Distribution Maps?What are they used for?
Are there different kinds?
A primary source document. This is a distribution map of the number of slaves in America’s south in 1861.
Rift Valley Fever Distribution Map
Countries with endemic disease and substantial outbreaks of RVF:
Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Sudan, Egypt, Madagascar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Countries known to have some cases, periodic isolation of virus, or serologic evidence of RVF:
Botswana, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia
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Indigenous Language Distribution
A Pictorial Distribution Map
The Battle of Bunker
Hill
Most Military Battle Maps are Pictorial Distribution Maps.
Map Questions
1. Is it better to live in a country that is blue or a country that is red? Why?
2. What color is the country that you live in? What does that color mean about the food in your country?
3. Find the following countries on the map: United States, Brazil, China and India. Put these countries in order from the country that has the most food to the country that has the least amount of food,
4. Look at the entire map. Name one country where at least 35% of the country is undernourished.
5. There are light blue countries all over the world. Now find the dark red/maroon countries. Where do they seem to be? Why do you think that is?
What steps are used to create a distribution map:
You have to get the raw data.
You have to calculate the ratios. Designate a color, pattern or
design to each distribution.
Find the area of the space.
Find the fraction of the whole number..
Color in your distribution map.
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Most Popular Candy Bars in the World
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What do candy bars have to do with distribution maps?
How would you make a distribution map of this
classroom?Candy Bars Candy Bars
Hershey /24 Milky Way /24
Oh Henry /24 Butter Finger /24
M & M /24 Kit Kat /24
Baby Ruth /24 Reeses Peanut Butter Cup /24
3 Musketeers /24 Snickers /24