Landforms and View points

Map Types

100

This projection shows the latitude and longitude meet at right angles.  The map is sometimes known as a cylindrical model. 

Daily Triple

mercator

200

This map type displays the elevation changes of a landscape. 

topographic

300

This map type displays the rock types that exist in certain areas. 

geological

400

This map is spherical with curved longitude lines. 

Robinson 

500

This map type is used to look closely at one section of the globe and provides the viewer with a cone shaped map. 

Conical 

Time zones

100

This is the number of time zones on the globe. 

24

200

This is the degree difference between each zone.

Daily Quad 

15

300

This is 0 latitude. 

equator

400

This is a line at 180 degrees that if passed add or subtracts a day. 

International Date Line

500

This is at 0 longitude

prime meridian

Mountains

100

This mountain type is created when one plate overlaps another at a fault line. 

Daily Triple

fault block

200

This mountain is created by lava. 

volcanic

300

This mountain type is created when land is forced upward. 

upwarped

400

This mountain type is created when two plates converge and bend the landscape. 

folded

500

Name the mountain type for Mt. St. Helen's and the Appalachian mountains. 

volcanic and folded

Plains and Plateaus

100

This plain type is founded along the ocean. 

coastal

200

This plateau surrounds the Grand Canyon. 

Colorado Plateau

300

This plain type is found inland.  

Daily Triple

interior plain

400

The Great Plains of North America are an example of this type of plain. 

interior

500

This is the difference between a mountain and a plateau.  

Flat topped