Topographic Maps
Map Parts
Finding Direction
Map Projections
Lines on a Map
100
The height of an object above sea level.
What is elevation?
100
The map part that tells what area is being shown on the map.
What is the Title?
100
The geographic north pole.
What is true north?
100
Photographs taken from the air.
What is aerial photographs?
100
A circle halfway between the poles that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
200
Lines that connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
200
The map part that gives the time at which the information on the map was accurate.
What is the date?
200
North, South, East and West.
What are the cardinal directions?
200
Gathering information about something without actually being there.
What is remote sensing?
200
The distance north or south, measured in degrees, from the equator.
What is latitude?
300
The difference in elevation between one contour line and the next.
What is the contour interval?
300
The map part that shows you how the map is positioned in relation to true north.
What is the Compass Rose?
300
A model or representation of the Earth's surface.
What is a map?
300
A map projection that is made by transferring the contents of the globe onto a cone.
What is conic projection?
300
The distance east or west, measured in degrees, from the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
400
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points of an area being mapped.
What is relief?
400
The map part that is a list of the symbols used in the map and their explanations.
What is the legend?
400
A fixed place on the Earth's surface from which direction and location can be described.
What is a reference point?
400
A map projection that is made by transferring the contents of the globe onto a plane.
What is azimuthal projection?
400
The latitude of the north pole.
What is 90 degrees North?
500
A darker, heavier contour line that is usually every fifth line and that is labeled by elevation.
What is the index contour?
500
The map part that shows the relationship between the distance on the Earth's surface and the distance on the map.
What is the map's scale?
500
The angle of correction measured in degrees east or west of true north.
What is magnetic declination?
500
A map projection that results when the contents of the globe are transferred onto a cylinder.
What is mercator projection?
500
The town that the prime meridian passes through.
What is Greenwich, England?
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