| A | B |
|---|
| plains | large, flat landforms |
| plateaus | flat, raised areas of land |
| folded mountains | landforms formed when horizontal rock layers are squeezed together and buckle |
| upwarped mountains | landforms formed by forces pushing up Earth's crust |
| fault-block mountains | landforms made of huge, tilted blocks of rocks that are separated from surrounding rocks by faults |
| volcanic mountains | landforms made of layers of molten rock |
| latitude | the distance in degrees either north or shouth of the equator |
| prime meridian | imaginary line that represents 0o longitude |
| longitude | distances in degrees east or west of the prime meridian |
| International Date Line | the transition line for calendar days |
| Mercator projection | map projection that shows correct shapes of continents but distorts their areas |
| Robinson projection | map projection showing fairly accurate shapes and land areas of ocntinents |
| conic projection | projection useful for producing maps of small areas |
| topographic map | shows the changes in elevation of Earth's surface |
| contour line | line on a map that connects points of equal elevation |
| contour interval | the difference in elevation between two side-by-side contour lines |
| map scale | the relationship between the distances on the map and actual distances on Earth |
| remote sensing | a way of collecting information about Earth from a distance |
| map legend | explains what the symbols used on the map mean |
| equator | imaginary line that circles Earth exactly halfway betweent he north and south poles |
