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Map Features
Map Projection
Topographic Maps
Lines Up and Down
100
The needle of a magnetic compass points towards this.
What is magnetic north pole.
100
This map projection transfers the contents of a globe onto a cone.
What is conic projection
100
These are used to show the shape and size of landforms on a topographic map.
What is contour lines
100
Imaginary lines that intersect at the North and South Poles.
What are lines of longitude?
200
This is another name for the geographic North Pole.
What is True North
200
This map projection transfers the contents of a globe onto a cylinder of paper
What is Mercator projection
200
Widely spaced contour lines indicate this type of slope.
What is gentle slope
200
Lines of longitude are east and west of this point.
What is prime meridian?
300
The relationship between the distance on a map and the actual distance on the Earth is called ___________.
What is scale
300
This type of map projection is made by transferring contents from a globe onto a plane.
What is azimuthal projection.
300
This shows the difference in elevation between one contour line and the next contour line.
What is contour interval
300
The prime meridian runs through this English town.
What is Greenwich?
400
This is the distance in degrees east and west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude
400
These are the3 most common geometric shapes use in map projections
What is cylinder, cone, plane
400
Contour maps can be used to illustrate other earth features, like forests, which are areas shaded green. Cities are shaded this color on contour maps.
What is pink?
400
Complete this phrase: Unlike lines of latitude, the lines of longitude are not __________.
What is parallel?
500
These are the 3 different kinds of scales that have a a written unit of measure.
What is representative fraction, graphic, verbal
500
This type of map projection distorts the size of areas near the poles.
What is Mercator projection
500
What is the contour interval for a topographic map with lines that are labeled 1600m, 1500m, 1400m, and 1300m.
What is 100m
500
This is the name of the line that runs through 180 west and 180 east, on the opposite side of the Earth from the prime meridian.
What is the antimeridian?