Landforms
Models
Mineral Formation
Producing Metals
Vocab
100

Includes areas of elevation, relief, and landforms.

Topography  

100
Makes a half circle from the North Pole to the South Pole

Prime Meridian

100

Molten material inside the Earth

Magma

100

Rock that contains a metal

Ore

100

Line on the grid that go from East to West

Latitude

200

Landform made up of nearly flat or gently rolling land with low relief.

Plains

200

Lines on the grid going from north to south.

longitude

200

Magma that reaches the surface

Lava

200

When an ore is mixed with other substances and melted to separate the useful metal

smelting

200

Lines on the grid that go from North to South

Longitude

300

A landform with high elevation and high relief.

mountain

300

Lines on the grid going from East to West

latitude

300

Mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another

Solutions

300

Anyone who searches for an ore deposit.

Prospector

300

What does GPS stand for.

Global Positioning System

400

Landform that had high elevation and more flat or less level surface.

Plateaus

400

Imaginary line that cirlces the Earth

equator

400

Hard, colorful mineral that has a brilliant or glassy luster.

Gemstone
400

The three types of mining:

strip mine, open pit mines, and shaft mines.

400

Cannot form from materials that were once part of living things.

Inorganic

500

Name a landform region.

The Great Plains

The Rocky Mountains

500

Convert location of map points to numbers

Digitizing

500

Other useful mineral that is softer than gemstones

metals

500

Most popular alloy

Steel

500

A solid mixture of two or more elements

alloy

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