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24 Cards in this Set
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Maps made by placing a flat sheet of paper on an imaginary wire globe, touching only one point and the shadows traced on this paper form what type of map?
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azimuthal projection
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A typical globe is covered by twelve paper strips called?
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gores
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Maps made by placing a cone-shaped piece of paper on an imaginary wire globe, tracing the shadow onto the cone, then open and flatten the cone are called?
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conic projection
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A reference point in which government surverors used to subdivide the land into a series of smaller squares.
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principal meridians
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Imaginary lines running east and west around the earth.
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latitude
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A detailed description of the earth, especially it's surface.
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geography
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A line of latitude
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parallel
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Imaginary lines that run north to south, stretching from pole to pole, around the earth.
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longitude
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Measure the land.
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survey
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The height and depth of land features.
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relief
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A regular pattern of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines.
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grid
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The line that divides the earth between the north and south.
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equator
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A line of longitude
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meridian
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When dividing the earth's sphere into two halves, what is each half called?
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hemisphere
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Mapmaking
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cartography
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The meridian passing through Greenwich, England, which serves as the base line for determining longitude
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Prime Meridian
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The lines that separate colors on a relief map.
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contour lines
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Detailed land features, including their heights
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topography
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Any method used to "project" the earth's round surface onto a flat map.
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map projection
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An imaginary line that can be drawn around the earth to cut it into equal hemispheres.
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great circle
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To twist or bend out of shape.
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distortion
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Maps that are made by rolling a sheet of paper around the wire globe in the shape of a cylinder and tracing the shadows cast by the light then unrolling the paper to get a flat map is called?
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cylindrical projection
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Maps that cut and flatten the earth like an orange peel are called?
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interrupted projections
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An area of land ten chains long and one chain wide.
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acre
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