Landforms
What is the term for the shape of the land, including its elevation, relief, and landforms?
Topography
Weather begins in which of Earth's systems?
Atmosphere
What imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator
What do contour lines connect?
Points of equal elevation.
What does GPS stand for?
Global Positioning System
What landform has high elevation, high relief, and usually occurs as part of a mountain range?
Mountain
Which Earth system(s) includes water?
Hydrosphere and Cryosphere
What imaginary line divides Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
What is a contour interval?
The change in elevation from one contour line to another.
Satellite images are made up of thousands of tiny dots called what?
Pixels
A plain that lies along a seacoast and has low elevation and low relief is called what?
Coastal plain
Which Earth system includes Earth's solid, rocky outer layer?
Geopshere or Lithosphere
The distance in degrees north or south of the equator.
Latitude
On a topographic map, contour lines are extremely close together. What does this tell you about the land?
The land has a steep slope.
What map feature relates a distance on a map to a distance on Earth's surface?
Scale
You are looking at a landform with high elevation but a more or less level surface. What landform are you looking at?
Plateau
Give an example of how a natural disaster affects the biosphere?
plant and animal life can die, changed, etc.
populations of different species can increase or decrease
The distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian.
Longitude
What does GPS use to determine latitude, longitude, and elevation?
A network of satellites.
One centimeter on a map represents 25,000 centimeters on Earth's surface. What is the map's scale?
1: 25,000
How would you describe the elevation and relief of an interior plain?
Varied elevation; low relief
A volcanic eruption changes the solid surface of Earth, releases gases into the atmosphere, and affects living organisms and water. What does this demonstrate?
It demonstrates that Earth's systems interact with one another.
Using the Understanding Maps Reinforcement Activity in your class notebook - what are the coordinates for southern most point of the state of Texas? Make sure to use the directional terms.
20 degrees N; 110 degrees W
A topographic map has a contour interval of 200 feet. How many contour intervals are needed to show a change in elevation of 1,000 feet?
5
Calculation:
1,000 รท 200 = 5
Name THREE ways computers have revolutionized mapmaking.