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upwarped mountains | landforms formed by forces pushing up Earth's crust |
Robinson projection | map projection showing fairly accurate shapes and land areas of continents |
latitude | the distance in degrees either north or south of the equator |
conic projection | projection useful for producing maps of small areas |
contour intervals | the difference in elebation between two side-by-side contour lines |
map scale | the relationship between the distances on the map and the actual distances on Earth |
Equator | imaginary line that circles Earth exactly halfway between the north and south poles |
contour line | line on a map that connects points of equal elevation |
fault-blocked mountains | landforms made of huge, tilted blocks of rocks that are separated from surrounding rocks by faults |
international date line | the transition line for calendar days |