The Academia Maps Advanced World Physical map is suitable for a wide range of grade school levels including middle school through high school as well as community college and university level courses. An ideal map for teaching world physical geography and earth sciences. The map is an excellent resource for providing students with an understanding how physical geography can impact global politics.
This world topography map features stunning shaded relief detail of both terrain and and the ocean floor. Topography and ocean floor bathymetry have been 3D rendered using high quality data sets.
Politically up-to-date with the latest name changes and presented in a Winkel-Tripel projection (also used by the National Geographic Society) for a more accurate representation of the world.
Key Features:
- Laminated with a dry-erase marker compatible washable surface.
- Pull-down classroom maps are mounted to a heavy duty retractable spring roller assembly with metal backboard rail that is capable of hanging from an existing classroom map rail or using one of our wall mounting hardware options.
- Colorful topographic shading, or hypsometric tints, combined with detailed shaded relief of terrain to clearly define elevation information for the world.
- Political boundaries for countries are represented using bold red outlines. Countries, national capital cities, major cities and U.S. states are clearly labeled. Also features rivers, lakes, seas, mountain ranges, deserts, basins, latitude/ longitude lines as well as warm and cold ocean currents.
- Detailed legend identifies map symbols and features.
- Major ocean floor trenches, basins, and ridges are also labeled.
- Land and ocean color legend aids in clearly distinguishing elevation and ocean bathymetry values in meters and feet.
- Detailed polar projections of the North and South Pole.
- Thematic insets include: Global Climate, Landcover (natural vegetation) and World Population Density.
This popular educational map is also offered as an economical wall map for home or classroom use. Click to see the Advanced World Physical Classroom Wall Map.