Vocabulary
Landforms
Latitude and Longitude
Maps
Miscellaneous
100
an upward fold in a folded mountain
What is an anticline?
100
A mountain that forms from molten material deposition.
What is a volcano?
100
Lines that are parallel to the equator.
What are latitude lines?
100
Map projection that has curved longitude lines and shows a more accurate shape and size of continents.
What is a Robinson projection?
100
A feature that may be found on a topographic map.
What are hills, valleys, changing elevation, natural features, roads, cities, dams, man-made structures?
200
This line is found at 0 degrees and runs East to West.
What is the equator?
200
A flat, raised area of land made up of nearly horizontal rocks.
What is a plateau?
200
These zones are found approximately every 15 degrees.
What are time zones?
200
The relationship between the distance on a map and the distance on the Earth's surface.
What is map scale?
200
A map projection that is created by projecting the lines on a map into a cone.
What is a conic projection?
300
The line that serves as the transition for calendar dates.
What is the international date line.
300
A large, flat area of land often in the interior of a continent.
What are Plains?
300
There are six of these in the US.
What are time zones?
300
The system that allows individuals to determine their exact location on the Earth.
What is GPS? (global positioning system)
300
The time zone that this 8th grade class lives in.
What is the central time zone?
400
A map used mainly on ships that shows the correct shape of continents, but has distorted sizes.
What is a Mercator projection?
400
Plains are found near the coast that generally consists of rolling hills, swamps, and marshes.
What are coastal plains?
400
These lines run parallel to the prime meridiain.
What are longitude lines?
400
A map that shows the arrangement and type of rock on the Earth's surface.
What is a geologic map?
400
A volcanic state located to the west of the 48 states.
What is Hawaii?
500
Short lines drawn at right angles to the contour line that show depressions by pointing toward lower elevations.
What are hachures?
500
A mountain that forms when one block of rock pushes up while the other pushed down.
What is a fault block mountain?
500
The location through which the prime meridian runs through.
What is the observatory in Greenwich, England?
500
A map that shows certain cultural features and elevation of an area.
What is a topographic map?
500
An area that is especially good for agriculture due to its fertile soils.
What are interior plains?
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