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Exploring Earth's Surface
Models of Earth
Maps and Computers
Topographic Maps
Vocabulary
100
Salt water is most found
Where is along shorelines and near beaches?
100
trickling water through ground causes this.
What is chemical weathering below Earth's surface?
100
locating points on the Earth's surface
What is surveying?
100
a map showing the surface features and the elavation of an area
What is a topographic map?
100
forms when agents of mechanical weathering break rocks into smaller pieces
What is sediment?
200
Underground caves, steep cliffs, and sand dunes often form near
What are coastlines?
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
connect points of elevation, relief, and slope on topogrpahic maps
What do contour lines represent?
200
ice, moving air and water
What are the three causes of mechanical weathering?
300
Earth's crust consist mostly of
What is solid rock?
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
wind, running and glaciers
What leads to erosion? (also know which of the above moves the sediment the fastest, slowest, heaviest stuff)
400
List the parts of the continental margin in order from top to bottom.
What is continental shelf, continental slope and continental rise?
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
Rocks break down during a destructive process call
What is weathering?
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?