The height above sea level of a point on Earth's surface.
What is elevation?
100
A flat model of all or part of the Earth's surface as seen from above.
What is a map?
100
Shows the surface features of an area.
What is a topographic map?
100
A landform made up of flat or gently rolling land with low relief.
What is a plain?
100
Low, fertile, flat areas along the coast.
What are coastal plains?
200
The difference in elevation between the highest and the lowest parts of an arean
What is relief?
200
Shows a close up view of part of the Earth's surface.
What is a large-scale map?
200
The change in elevation from one contour line to the next.
What is contour interval?
200
This relates distance on a map to a distance on Earth's surface.
What is a scale?
200
The Circum-Pacific and Eurasian Melanasian are examples.
What is a moutain belt?
300
The shape of the land?
What is topography?
300
The projection where landmasses near the equator are a little distorted and more and more distorted towards the poles.
What is a Mercator projection?
300
Can be used to find the elevation of a feature on a topographic map.
What is an index contour?
300
The imaginary line on the Earth's surface at 180 degrees longitude, to the east of which the calendar day is one day earlier than to the west.
What is the international date line?
300
The distance in degrees east and west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
400
A large area of land for which the topography is mainly one type of landform.
What is landform region?
400
The projection used to show limited accurate parts of the Earth's surface.
What is a conic projection?
400
These are represented by hachures on contour lines on a topographic map.
What are depressions?
400
Lines of latitude.
What are parallels?
400
A feature of topography, such as a hill or valley formed by the processes that shape the Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
500
A landform that has high elevation and a more or less level surface.
What is a plateau?
500
The projection that correctly shows the relative sizes of Earth's landmasses and the shapes of the landmasses near the edge of the map appear stretched.
What is an equal area projection?
500
On a topographic map these connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
500
A group of mountains that are closely related in shape, structure, and age.
What is a mountain range?
500
This is often the main difference between a coastal plain and an interior plain.