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Exploring Earth's Surface
Models of Earth
Maps in the Computer Age
Topographic Maps
Potluck
100
The shape the land.
What is Topography?
100
A model on a flat surface of all or part of Earths surface as seen from above.
What is a map?
100
These are pictures of the surface based on these data.
What are satellite images?
100
It provides information of elevation relief and slope of the ground surface
What is a topographic map?
100
Where is the Earth's highest point?
What is Mt. Everest
200
The height above sea level of a point on Earth's surface.
What is elevation?
200
A list of all symbols used on the map with an explanation of their meaning.
What is a key?
200
A satellite image is made up of thousands of these tiny dots.
What are pixels?
200
These are used to show what woods, campground, an orchard, or a school.
What is a symbol?
200
the smallest unit of a living thing
What is a cell
300
These are the three main types of landforms.
What is plains, mountains, and plateaus.
300
Halfway between the North and South poles, this forms a imaginary line that circles the earth.
What is the equator?
300
The process by which mapmakers convert the location of map points to number is called this?
What is digitizing ?
300
Most topographic maps are at a scale of this?
What is What is 1 : 24,000
300
This place was referenced in a old TV shows title " Third rock from the sun."
What is earth?
400
These are the four spheres that scientists divide the earth into
What is lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere
400
To measure the distance around a circle, scientist use these units.
What is degree?
400
Mapmakers have new ways of storing and displaying map data with these?
What are computers?
400
To represent elevation, relief and slope on topographic map, mapmakers use these?
What are contour lines?
400
Surrounding the core is this thick layer.
What is the mantle?
500
The topography of an area is determined by this.
What is elevation, relief and landforms.
500
These are the lines used to find a location anywhere on earth?
What are latitude and longitude line?
500
This is the color used to feature water on satellite image?
What is black or blue.
500
This is a method of finding latitude, longitude, and elevation of points on Earth's surface using a network of satellites.
What is GPS?
500
The outer layer of the lithosphere that forms Earth's surface.
What is the crust?