World vegetation maps and world climate maps are very similar. Why? Because climate maps are based on vegetation maps. Because vegetation maps are based on climate maps. Because climate determines where you find different vegetation types. Because vegetation types determine climate. 25 points The author states that he mapped the sols of New Brunswick, Canada using aerial photographs. Why was he able to use aerial photographs to describe the distribution of sols? He used ground penetration radar to "see" under the ground suiface. He could recognize the major vegetation types from the aerial photographs and knew that each vegetason type grew in a spocific soil type. He was too busy to do good joband basically only guessed the soilk- He could see the soils from the air..