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Exploring Earth's Surface
Models of Earth
Maps and Computers
Topographic Maps
Vocabulary
100
the shape of the land
What is topography?
100
flat model of all or part of the Earth's surface
What is a map?
100
locating points on the Earth's surface
What is surveying?
100
a map showing the surface features of an area
What is a topographic map?
100
connects points of equal elevation
What is a contour line?
200
elevation, relief, and landforms
What does topography include?
200
drawn to scale and use symbols to represent topography and other features on Earth's surface
What are maps and globes?
200
mapmakers convert the location of map points to numbers
What is digitizing?
200
elevation, relief, and slope on topogrpahic maps
What do contour lines represent?
200
a framework of lines that helps in transferring points on Earth's three dimensional surface to a flat map
What is a map projection?
300
plain, mountains, and plateaus
What are three main types of landforms?
300
shapes and pictures used on maps
What are symbols?
300
pictures of the surface based on computer data
What are satellite images?
300
the change in elevation from contour line to contour line
What is contour interval?
300
distances in degrees north or south of the equator
What is latitude?
400
a group of mountains that are closely related in shape, structure, and age
What is a mountain range?
400
measures the distance around a circle or distances on the surface of a sphere
What is a degree?
400
a system using latitude, longitude, and elevation of points on Earth's surface using a network of satellites
What is GPS? (Global Positioning System)
400
scale, symbols, and contour lines
How to read a topographic map?
400
one half of the sphere that makes up the Earth's surface
What is the hemisphere?
500
a large area of land where the topography is made up mainly of one type of landform
What is a landform region?
500
an imaginary line that makes a half circle from the North Pole to the South Pole
What is the prime meridian?
500
a satellite image made up of thousand tiny dots
What are pixels?
500
used in science, engineering, businesses, government, and everyday life
What are the uses of a topographic map?
500
a landform tha has high elevation and a more or less level surface
What is a plateau?