The imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the poles.
What is the equator?
100
One half of the sphere that makes up Earth's surface.
What is a hemisphere?
100
What connects the points of equal elevation on a topographic map?
What is contour lines?
100
A landform made up of flat or gently rolling land with low relief.
What is a plain?
200
The thing you can use to find the elevation of a feature on a topographic map.
What is an index contour?
200
The difference between a coastal plain and an interior plain.
What is its elevation?
200
The place the Prime Meridian runs through.
What is Greenwich, England?
200
The type of map that shows the continents without distorting their relative sizes and shapes.
What is equal-area projection?
200
A large area of land where the topography is similar.
What is landform region?
300
A framework of lines that helps show landmasses correctly on a flat surface.
What is map projection?
300
A satellite image is made of thousands of tiny dots called ____________.
What is pixels?
300
A plain that lies away from the coast.
What is an interior plain?
300
The three types of landforms.
What is plateau, plain, and mountain?
300
A model of all or part of Earth's surface as seen from above.
What is a map?
400
The process by which mapmakers convert the location of map points to numbers.
What is digializing?
400
Measures a landform's height above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
Describe how you will draw a depression on a topographic map.
What is using contour lines that form a closed loop marked with dashes that indicate a depression?
400
Describe how you would find the distance between two places on a map.
What is you would find the scale of the map and then measure the distance and convert it to mi of km depending on what the map scale is in?
400
Describe how major highways and airports treated differently than houses and other small features on a large-scale map.
What is they appear as outlines at the correct scale of the map, while houses and other features appear at symbols on the map?
500
Draw for me a hill that is steep on one side and gently sloped on the other. It's contour lines need to go up by 100 ft. On your drawing, what is the highest point?
What is (see teacher diagram).
500
Explain how computers have changed mapmaking in recent years.
What is computers give mapmakers new ways of storing and displaying map data. Once the map has been digitalized, it can be displayed on the computer and be modified and printed or made into 3D models?
500
Describe a GPS.
What is the Global Positioning System is a method of finding the locations and elevation of points on Earth's surface using a network of satellites?
500
On an imaginary grid around Earth which lines are parallel and which ones are not?
What is latitude lines are parallel because they are parallel to the equator and to each other, while longitude lines are not parallel because they meet at the poles?
500
Describe the 4 spheres of earth.
What is biosphere-all living things, atmosphere-gases around the planet, hydrosphere- the oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice, and lithosphere- solid, rocky outer layer of Earth?