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A map showing land use categories such as arable, pasture and woodland is

  • A.quantitative in the data it presents
  • B.an isoline map of a continuous surface
  • C.a cartogram scaled by area of each class
  • D.qualitative in the data it presents

Answer: D

Correct answer: qualitative in the data it presents

Arable, pasture and woodland are categories differing in kind, not amounts differing in degree, so the data are nominal and the map is qualitative. That determines everything downstream: unrelated hues rather than a graded sequence, no class limits to choose, and no question of normalising by area - the very issues that dominate the design of a quantitative thematic map.

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