Exploring Earth's Surface
This term describes the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area
What is relief?
A map feature that relates distance on a map to a distance on Earth's surface
What is a scale?
A satellite image is made of thousands of tiny dots called this
What is a pixel?
This imaginary line runs through Greenwich, England and divides the Earth into the Eastern & Western Hemispheres
What is the prime meridian?
GPS stands for this
What is Global Positioning System?
A landform that has high elevation and a more or less level surface is a ...
What is a plateau?
A sphere model that represents Earth's entire surface
What is a globe?
This is a method of finding longitude, latitude, and elevation using a system of satellites
What is GPS?
Half a sphere that makes up the Earth's surface
What is a hemisphere?
How many contour lines would you need to draw to show a change in elevation of 2,000 feet on a map with a contour interval of 200 feet?
What is 10?
The three major types of landforms
What are plateaus, plains, and mountains?
This is a list of all of a map's symbols
What is a key?
What map feature is indicated by letter E
What is a compass?
1/360 of the way around Earth is called this
What is a degree?
Describe a mountain using elevation & relief
What is a landform with high elevation and high relief?
An area's topography is determined by the area's elevation, relief, and this
What are landforms?
If 1 inch on a map represents 1500 miles on the ground, what is the scale of the map in a ratio? (ratio example: 1:100)
What is 1:1500?
What line is represented by A
What is the equator?
Which line is used to measure the North Pole at 90o North?
What is latitude?
Describe 2 things about a plain (tell me it's shape and relief)
What is a landform that has lower elevation & low relief?
One major difference between a coastal plain and an interior plain (BESIDES where it is located) is ...
What is elevation?
A map is an example of this thing used by scientists and geologists
What is a model?
Three ways that computers have revolutionized mapmaking
What is store, process, & display data electronically, digitize data, makes maps automatically, and produces maps from many data sources & allows us to use GPS?
The difference in latitude between points B & C on the map
What is 90 degrees?
Describe 2 things about a plateau
What is a landform with high elevation and flat surface?