8th grade Science Chapter 6 WORD LIST 1
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| plain | large, flat landform that often this thick, fertile soil and is usually found int he interior reign of a continent
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| plateau | flat, raised landform made up of nearly horizontal rocks that have been uplifted
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| folded mountains | mountains formed when blocks of the earths crust or pushed up by forces inside Earth
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| fault-block mountain | Mountains formed from a huge , tilted blocks of rock that are separated from surrounding rocks by faults
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| volcanic mountain | mountains formed when molten material reaches Earths surface through a weak crustal area and piles up into a cone shaped structure
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| equatror | imaginary line that wraps around Earth at 0 degrees latitude, halfway between the north and south poles
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| latitude | distance in degrees north or south of the equator
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| prime meridian | imaginary line that represents 0 degrees longitude and runs from the north pole through Greenwich, England, to the South Pole
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| longitude | distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian
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| conic projection | map made by projection points and lines from a globe onto a cone
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| topographic map | map that shows the changes in elevation of Earths surface and indicates such features as roads and cities
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| Contour line | line on map that connects points of equal elevation
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| map scale | relationship between distances on a map and distances on Earths surface that can be represented as a ratio or a small ar divided into sections
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| map legend | Explains the meaning of symbols used on a map
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