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    This document discusses topographic maps and natural resources. A topographic map represents physical features like hills, mountains, valleys and rivers as well as human features like villages and roads. It shows differences in land height using contour lines, which are lines connecting places of equal elevation. Natural resources occur naturally and include mineral resources like gold and oil, agricultural resources like soil and biotic resources like forests. Resources are either renewable, like soil and wind energy, or non-renewable, like coal and gas, which will eventually be depleted.

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    This document discusses topographic maps and natural resources. A topographic map represents physical features like hills, mountains, valleys and rivers as well as human features like villages and roads. It shows differences in land height using contour lines, which are lines connecting places of equal elevation. Natural resources occur naturally and include mineral resources like gold and oil, agricultural resources like soil and biotic resources like forests. Resources are either renewable, like soil and wind energy, or non-renewable, like coal and gas, which will eventually be depleted.

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    Map Reading

    Uploaded by

    Nirvana Suggie
    This document discusses topographic maps and natural resources. A topographic map represents physical features like hills, mountains, valleys and rivers as well as human features like villages and roads. It shows differences in land height using contour lines, which are lines connecting places of equal elevation. Natural resources occur naturally and include mineral resources like gold and oil, agricultural resources like soil and biotic resources like forests. Resources are either renewable, like soil and wind energy, or non-renewable, like coal and gas, which will eventually be depleted.

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    Map Reading

    What is a topographic map?


    Large-scale map representing selected aspects of the earth's
    surface
    Shows both physical and human features

    Examples of physical features:- a hill,mountain,valley,river,pond

    Examples of human features:- village,town,cemetery,church,roads


    The land around us is seldom
    flat.There are nearly always
    differences in height.
    Representing
    Height There may be hills,mountains
    (above 600m or 2000 feet
    high) valleys or areas that are
    quite level.
    Contour Lines

    • Contours are lines on maps joining places of the same height above sea
    level.
    • Height at sea level= 0 m
    • Contour Lines DO NOT cross each other
    • The number on a contour line indicates the height that the line represents.
    • These lines are usually coloured brown.

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    Natural Resources
    And Development

    Geography
    What are Natural Resources?

    Natural Resources occur naturally within the earth and are not made by man.They include
    minerals,agricultural and biotic resources.

    1) Mineral Resources-gold,bauxite,oil,iron ore

    2) Agricultural Resources- soil,rainfall,sunshine

    3)Biotic Resources-wood from forests,fish from rivers/sea


    Youtube Link
    https://youtu.be/gt1QVYA_DnM
    Resources In The Caribbean

    Forest Resources- Fish Resources- Bauxite Resources-


    Guyana,Suriname,St.Lucia Belize,Barbados Jamaica,Guyana,Suriname

    Oil and Gas Resources- Limestone-


    Gold-Guyana,Suriname
    Trinidad,Guyana,Barbados Jamaica,Barbados,Trinidad
    Types of Natural Resources

    1)Renewable

    2)Non-Renewable
    Renewable
    Resources

    • Will NOT be exhausted,but may be


    mismanaged.
    • Examples:soil,solar energy,wave energy,wind
    energy
    Non-Renewable
    Resources
    • Are resources that will eventually run
    out.
    • Examples:mineral resources such as
    coal,oil,gas bauxite

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