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| Landforms | The Earth’s surface features, such as mountains, valleys, and plains
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| Profile | A map or diagram shown as if the land had been cut away so that the earth can be viewed from the side.
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| Relief | Differences in the elevation of the land
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| Vertical exaggeration | The showing of elevation at a scale larger than the scale used for distance
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| Perspective | The point from which a map is drawn
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| Spherical | Ball-shaped
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| Projection | The representation on a map of the earth’s surface or a part of it.
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| Distortion | The changing of the form of something.
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| A.M. | The abbreviation for “before noon”
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| P.M. | The abbreviation for “after noon”
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| International Date Line | The line at roughly 180 degrees longitude
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| Time Line | A line, representing a period of time, on which dates and the order of events are shown.
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| Standard Time Zone | One of the 24 divisions of the earth in which the clock time is the same.
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| Orientation | The location of directions.
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| Parallel | A line of latitude: any one of the east-west lines drawn on maps and globes.
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| Latitude | Distance north or south of the equator.
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| Hemisphere | One half of the earth.
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| Longitude | Distance east or west of the hemisphere
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| Meridian | A line of Longitude: any of the north-south lines drawn on maps and globes.
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| Geographic Coordinates | The numbers in the geographic grid system; the numbers that give the latitude and longitude of a place.
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| Compass Rose | A drawing used to show orientation on maps that do not have a grid system.
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| Key | The part of the map that explains the symbols used on a map.
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| Scale | The relationship between distance on a map and actual distance on the earth.
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| Elevation | The height of the land. Usually given as the height above sea level, which is considered to be 0 elevation.
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| Contour lines | Any of the lines that are used to show elevation on a topographical map.
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| Cartographer | A mapmaker
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