Map interpretation
What Map interpretation means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Combining contour patterns with map symbols to identify basic landscape features and describe their characteristics from map evidence.
Identifying and describing significant features of the physical and human landscape on maps based on global and other scales.
Combining observations of physical and human features from map evidence to explain why a landscape looks the way it does.
Topics that use Map interpretation
- Cartographic skills (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Annotation
- Cartographic interpretation
- Cartographic skills
- Contour lines
- Contour patterns
- Curved line distance
- Direction
- Fluvial landscapes
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