1. Earth Science Chapter 2

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3. This includes the area’s elevation, relief, and landforms.

4. What is topography? Click Anywhere to Continue

5. The height above sea level of a point on Earth’s surface.

6. What is elevation? Click Anywhere to Continue

7. The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.

8. What is relief? Click Anywhere to Continue

9. This type of landform is made up of nearly flat land with low relief.

10. What is a plain? Click Anywhere to Continue

11. A landform with high elevation and high relief.

12. What is a mountain? Click Anywhere to Continue

13. This is halfway between the North and South poles and forms an imaginary line that circles Earth.

14. What is the equator? Click Anywhere to Continue

15. This is an imaginary line that makes a half circle from the North Pole to the South Pole.

16. What is the prime meridian? Click Anywhere to Continue

17. This measures distances north and south of the equator.

18. What is Latitude? Click Anywhere to Continue

19. This measures distances east or west of the prime meridian.

20. What is longitude? Click Anywhere to Continue

21. The North and South poles cannot be seen on this type of map projection.

22. What is a Mercator projection? Click Anywhere to Continue

23. This map projection is best suited for showing only part of Earth’s surface.

24. What is a conic projection? Click Anywhere to Continue

25. The process by which mapmakers convert map points to numbers.

26. What is digitizing? Click Anywhere to Continue

27. This is one data source that computers use to produce maps. (Abbreviated GPS)

28. What is the Global Positioning System? Click Anywhere to Continue

29. A satellite image is made up of thousands of tiny dots called these.

30. What are pixels? Click Anywhere to Continue

31. Digitized map data is stored in the computer as a series of these two numbers.

32. What are 0’s and 1’s? Click Anywhere to Continue

33. A map showing the surface features of an area.

34. What is a topographic map? Click Anywhere to Continue

35. These connect points of equal elevation.

36. What are contour lines? Click Anywhere to Continue

37. The change in elevation from contour line to contour line is called this.

38. What is the contour interval? Click Anywhere to Continue

39. Every fifth line which is darker and heavier than the other lines.

40. What is the index contour? Click Anywhere to Continue

41. A topographic map uses these two things to help us interpret the contour lines.

42. What are scales and symbols? Click Anywhere to Continue

43. An area where the topography is made up of one type of landform.

44. What is a landform region? Click Anywhere to Continue

45. Longitude and latitude are measured using this unit.

46. What are degrees? Click Anywhere to Continue

47. A sphere that represents Earth’s surface

48. What is a globe? Click Anywhere to Continue

49. A flat model of all or part of Earth’s surface as seen from above.

50. What is a map? Click Anywhere to Continue

51. TGIF stands for this

52. What is Thank Gosh It's Friday? Click Anywhere to Continue