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Landforms
Maps
Satellites
Glaciers
Coordinate System
100
The difference in elevation in the local area. For example, mountains have high ____________.
What is relief?
100
This is a spherical model of the earth.
What is a globe?
100
This satellite system uses at least four satellites and a receiver to calculate latitude, longitude and elevation.
What is the Global Positioning System? (GPS)
100
A glacier that requires less snow and is form on the frozen top of a mountain.
What is a valley glacier?
100
The imaginary line that encircles the earth halfway between the North and South Poles.
What is the Equator?
200
How high something is above sea level.
What is elevation?
200
This ratio helps you find the distance on the ground that is represented on the map.
What is the scale?
200
This satellite system travels on a North/South orbit and takes a picture of all the spots on the earth every 16-18 days.
What is LandSat?
200
A glacier that covers an entire continent or island, such as Greenland or Antarctica.
What is a continental glacier?
200
The imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole and passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
This topographical feature has high elevation and high relief.
What is a mountain?
300
This part of the map is where you find the symbols and scale.
What is the key?
300
These are images of the earth taken by satellites.
What are Satellite Images?
300
The debris that remains after a glacier melts.
What is till?
300
1/360th of a circle, this is how we measure latitude and longitude.
What is a degree?
400
This topographical feature has low relief and variable elevation, depending whether it's coastal or interior.
What is a plain?
400
This kind of map shows the shape of the land.
What is a topographical map?
400
The process by which information is converted to numbers for use by a computer.
What is digitizing?
400
The process by which rocks are picked up by a glacier.
What is plucking?
400
This is what we use to measure how far north or south of the equator you are.
What is latitude?
500
This topographical feature has high elevation and low relief.
What is a plateau?
500
The change in elevation between contour lines is known as this.
What is the Contour Interval?
500
The tiny dots in a digital image.
What are pixels?
500
The process by which rocks are dragged along the ground under a glacier, leading to striations.
What is abrasion?
500
This is what we use to measure how far east or west of the prime meridian you are.
What is longitude?