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| Plains | large, flat areas often found in the interior regions of continents |
| Coastal Plains | found near the ocean, low in elevation. low rolling hills, swamps and marshes |
| Plateaus | flat raised areas of land made up of nearly horizontal rocks that have been uplifted by forces within the Earth |
| Folded Mountains | rock layers that are folded like a rug. The Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains |
| Upwarped Mountains | formed when blocks of the Earth's crust are pushed up by forces inside Earth |
| Fault-block Mountains | huge, tilted blocks of rocks that are separated form surrounding rock faults |
| Volcanic Mountains | form when molten material reaches the surface through a weak area in the Earth's crust |
| equator | imaginary line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres |
| Latitude | lines that run parallel to the equator |
| Prime Meridian | Divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
| Longitude | measured in degrees and divides the earth east and west of the prime meridian |
| Mercator Projection | used mainly on ships. areas are larger but shapes accurate |
| Robinson Projection | shows accurate shapes and accurate land areas |
| Conic Projection | used to produce maps of small areas. project shapes into a cone shape |
| Topographic Map | models the change in elevation in the Earth's surface |
| Contour line | a line on a map that connects points of equal elevation |
| Map scale | shows the relationship between distances on a map |
| Map legend | explains what the symbols on a map mean |
