Maps
Continents
Oceans
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Miscellaneous
100
used to find elevation of landforms in a region
What is topographic map
100
The age of some rocks found in the continents
What is billions of years old
100
In contrast to the continents, ocean floor is only ______ years old
What is millions
100
GPS stands for
What is Global Positioning System
100
The elevation difference between contour lines
What is contour interval
200
used to show long term weather patterns
What is climate map
200
The older of the two...continents and ocean floor
What are continents
200
The deepest places of the ocean are called
What are trenches
200
They type of satellite orbit in which the satellite travels from pole to pole in 90 minutes.
What is polar orbit
200
Forces that create and build landforms
What are constructive forces
300
The Mercator projection was developed in the (1300s, 1500s, 1700s, or 1900s)
What is 1500s
300
Continents are __________ sea level?
What is above
300
The abyssal plain makes up much of the..
What is the floor of the ocean
300
The type of satellite orbit in which the satellite stays directly overhead and orbits at the same speed as the Earth's rotation
What is geostationary orbit
300
A map with totally straight latitude and longitude lines
What is Mercator projection
400
This projection is slightly oval, is an improvement over the Mercator projection, and is based on mathematical formulas
What is Robinson projection
400
The shelf, slope, and rise are all part of the...
What is the continental margin
400
Type of map that made using sonar, is a type of topographic map, and has larger numbers to show greater depths of sea level
What is bathymetric
400
GPS works by measuring....
What is the speed of radio waves from 4 or more satellites.
400
To move to a location 8 meters east of your current position, you would need the following tools
What are a compass and a tape measure
500
This shows the difference between true north and geomagnetic north
What is double compass rose
500
Very accurate representations of a tiny part of the Earth are made with ___________ projections.
What is gnomonic
500
On a map, water features are usually shown in....
What is blue
500
This line runs North to South, is at 0 degrees, and runs through Greenwich, England
What is Prime Meridian
500
You can tell whether a place is in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere based on it's...
What is latitude
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