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17 Cards in this Set
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Latitude |
North and South |
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Longitude |
East and West |
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equator |
imaginary line that is located at 0 degrees latitude |
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prime meridian |
imaginary line that is located at 0 degrees longitude |
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landform |
a feature that makes up the basic shape of Earth's surface |
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Contour line |
connects points of equal elevations |
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Plateaus |
area of relatively flat raised land |
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Horst Graben system |
most of the mountains in Southern Nevada are the result of |
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Plains |
can occur in the interior of our continent or in coastal areas |
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mountain |
area that is raised,but not flat on top |
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projection |
when points/lines on a globe are transferred onto a paper |
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topographic maps |
show elevation |
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elevation |
the distance above/below sea level |
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3 rules of contour lines |
1. they never touch 2. close around hills/basins 3.cener lines form V's |
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map key |
explains what the symbols used on a map mean |
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map scale |
shows relationship between distances on the map and actual distances on Earth's surface |
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on topographic maps, contour lines that form a circle and don't have hashes indicate |
hills on a mountain |
