What term describes the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area?
What is Relief
100
A contour line that forms a closed loop and has small dashes pointing to the inside of the loop represents what?
What is a depression in the ground!
100
A topographic map differs from a road map in that the topographic map shows what (3 things)?
What is elevation, relief, and slope
100
It would be easy to walk up a lsope represented by contour lines that are what?
What is far apart!
100
A landform that has high elevation and more or less level surface is what?
What is Plateau!
200
A map projection in which the lines of latitude and longitude are all staight, parallel lines that form a rectangle is the what?
What is Mercator projections!
200
Plateaus, plains, and mountains are the three main types of what?
What is Landforms!
200
One major difference between a coastal plain and an interior plain is in its what?
What is Elevation!
200
The contour lines that represent the top of a hill form what?
What is closed loop!
200
V-shaped contour lines pointing uphill indicate a what?
What is valley
300
What kind of slope do closely spaced contour lines indicate?
What is steep
300
Elevation, relief, and slope on a topographic map are shown using symbols called what?
What is contour lines
300
Computer mapmakers digitize map data so that they can what?
What is Display the data on a computer screen!
300
The point on Earth's surface having zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude would be located where?
What is Where the equator crosses the prime meridian
300
Topographic maps are usually large-scale maps that show what?
What is a close up view of part of Earth's surface
400
Which of the locations lised below is farthest from the prime meridian?
10 degrees N 25 degrees W
10 degrees S 25 degrees E
25 degrees S 40 degrees E
40 degrees N 35 degrees W
What is 25 degrees S 40 degrres E
400
Which of these terms includes all the others, mountain system, mountain belt, mountain, or mountain range?
What is mountain belt
400
If one centimeter on a map represents 25,000 centimeters on the ground, the scale of the map would like like what?
What is 1: 25,000
400
To find the latitude, longitude, and elevation of points on Earth's surface, the GPS uses what?
What is signals from a network of satellites
400
For the GPS to work, at any given time there must be what?
What is at least three GPS satellites above the horizon
500
If Lima , Peru, is located at about 12 degrees S 77 degrees W, then Lima is in what two hemispheres?
What is Southern and Western
500
The distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian is called what?
What is longitude
500
If you saw a picture of Earth's surface as seen from above, in which water looked black, forests looked red, and cities looked blue-gray, you are probably looking at a what?
What is satellite image!
500
New Orleans, Lousianna and Cairo, Egypt, are nearly the same distance north of the equator. This means that the two cities have almost the same what?
What is Latitude
500
If you were to take the shortest route from 25 degrees S 30 degrees E to 25 degrees N 30 degrees W, in which direction would you travel?