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| plains | large, flat areas, often found in the interior regions of continents |
| coastal | a plain that is often called a lowland |
| Plateaus | flat, raised areas of land made up of nearly horizontal rocks that have been uplifted by forces within the Earth |
| Folded Mountains | mountains, where the rock layers are folded like a rug that has been pushed up against a wall. |
| Upwarped Mountains | moutains formed when blocks of Earth's crust are pushed up by forces inside Earth. |
| Fault block mountains | mountains formed from huge, titled blocks of rock that are separated from surrounding rocks by faults |
| Volcanic mountains | formed when molten material reaches Earth's surface through a weak area of the crust |
| latitude | distance in degrees north or south orf the equator |
| Equator | imaginary line that wraps around Earth at 0 degrees latitude, halfway between the north and south poles |
| longitude | distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian |
| Prime Meridian | imaginary line that represents 0 degree longitude and runs from the north pole through Greenwich, England, to the south pole |
| 24 | Earth is divided into ____ time zones |
| International Date Line | located near the 180 degrees meridian |
| 15 | each time zone is about ____ degrees of longitude wide |
| 1 | each time zone is ____ hour different from the zones on each side of it |
| Great Plains | the central portion of the U.S. is comprised largely of ____ |
| Topographic Map | map that shows the changes in elevation of Earth's surface and indicates such features as roads and cities. |
| landforms | features that make up the shape of the land at Earth's surface |
| 3 basic landforms | plains, plateaus, and mountians |
| Atlantic Coastal Plains | along the East Coast of the U.S. |
| Gulf Coast Plains | plains that surround the Gulf of Mexico |
| Mercato | projection that has paralled latitude lines and parallel longitude lines. The areas of the continents are distorted especially near the poles |
| Robinson | projection, latitude lines are parallel and longitude lines are curved. The land areas are less distorted at the poles |
| Conic | projection is made from projecting points and lines from a globe onto a cone. also used to make road maps |
| The 1 on a map scale 1:24,000 represents 1 cm What does the 24,000 represent | 24,000 cm |
| One a map scale, 1 cm equals 1 km. What distance is represented by 10 cm | 10 km |
| Flat maps can show elevation with | contour lines |
| Distance above or below sea level is | elevation |
| the difference in elevation from one contour line to the next is the contour | interval |
| landsat satellites use ______ to make detailed images of Earth's surface | different wave lengths of light |
| Global Positioning System sends ____ to give users their precise locations | radio signals |
