Earth Science Test November 2009
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| What term describes the difference between the highest and lowest parts of an area | relief
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| A landform that has high elevation and more or less level surface is a what? | mountain system
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| One major difference between a coastal plain and an entire plain is a what? | Elevation
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| If one centimeter on a map represents 25,000 centimeters on the ground the scale of the map is | 1ccm : 2.5 KM ****
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| If you were to take the shortest route from 25 degrees S and 30 degree E to 25 degrees to North and 30 W in what direction would you travel? | Northwest
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| Computer maps makers digitalize maps data so that they can what? | find latitude and longitude *****
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| Elevation, relief, and slope are a typographic map are shown using symbols? | Contour lines
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| What kind of slope do closely spaced Contour indicate? | Steep
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| To find the latitude, longitude and elevation of points on Earth's surface, the GPS uses what? | Networks of satellites
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| For the GPS to work at any given time there must beat least how any satellites to work? | 3
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| Which of these terms includes all the others? Mountain, mountain system, mountain belt, mountain range? | mountain system?
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| A "V-shaped" counter line pointing up hill indicates what? | Valley
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| A contour line that forms a close loop and has small dashes pointing to the inside of a loop represents what? | depression in the ground
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| Plateaus, mountains, plains are the three major types of what? | landforms
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| A map projection in which the lines of longitude and latitude are all straight, parallel lines that form a rectangle is the what? | Mercator projection
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| Which of the locations listed below is | Longitude
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| The feature of a map that relates a distance on the map to a distance on Earth's surface is called a what? | Scale
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| On a Mercator projection, Greenland appears larger than South America because of what? | Mercator projection enlarge areas near the poles
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