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The innermost region of Earth
What is the core?
100
A flat model of Earth’s surface
What is a map?
100
A map with contour lines that shows the surface features, or topography, of the land
What is a topographic map?
100
Study of Earth and its history
What is Earth science?
100
A feature that relates distances on a map to actual distances on Earth’s surface
What is a scale?
200
The difference in elevation between one contour line and the next
What are contour intervals?
200
The solid, thin outer layer of Earth
What is the crust?
200
A three-dimensional model of Earth’s surface
What is a globe?
200
A line on a map or globe running from the North Pole to the South Pole along Earth’s surface
What is meridian?
200
A round, three-dimensional object
What is a sphere?
300
A person who studies or works on only one part of a subject
What is a specialist?
300
A drawing on a map that represents a real object
What is a symbol?
300
A drawing of Earth’s surface, or part of it, on a flat surface
What is a map projection?
300
An envelope of gases surrounding Earth
What is the atmosphere?
300
A line drawn on a map that connects all points having the same elevation
What is a contour line?
400
The distance in degrees north and south of the equator
What is latitude?
400
The solid part of Earth
What is the lithosphere?
400
The height of a point on Earth above or below sea level
What is elevation?
400
A list of map symbols and their meanings
What is a legend?
400
The thick layer of rock below the crust
What is the mantle?
500
The measurement in degrees east to west of the prime meridian
What is longitude?
500
A general form and shape of the land on Earth’s surface
What is topography?
500
The part of Earth that is water
What is the hydrosphere?
500
A horizontal line on a map or globe that circles Earth from east to west at intervals starting at the equator
What is parallel?
500
An error in shape, size, or distance
What is distortion?
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