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IOC4 Module 8
Key terms from IOC4 Module 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A map showing the changes in elevation of the terrain. Most commonly a topographic map. Lines are labeled with elevation. Frequent lines indicates steep slopes and lines far apart indicate flat surfaces. | Relief Map |
| A map showing the climates for particular areas. | Climate Map |
| a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour lines in modern mapping, but historically using a variety of methods. Typically shows both natural and man-made features. | Topographical Map |
| a map that shows lines defining countries, states or territories. It is unlike other maps in that its purpose is to show borders. | Political Map |
| A map showing the roads. | Road Map |
| Any projection in which meridians are mapped to equally spaced vertical lines and latitudes are mapped to horizontal lines. | Cylindrical projection |
| meridians are straight equidistant lines, converging at a point which may or not be a pole. Compared with the sphere, angular distance between meridians is always reduced by a fixed factor. | Conic Projection |
| Projection used to show accurate area sizes across entire projection. Results in distortion of shape and angle. | Equal area projection |
| Cylindrical map projection into a rectangular map. Share is accurate towards the prime meridian but distorted severely on the poles. | Mercator Map |
| Map projection of the world map used to show the entire world. Created to find a good compromise of showing the entire globe as a flat image. | Robinson Map |
| Map projection of the world to show accurate depiction of area, with loss of fidelity of angle and shape. | Mollweide |
| Directions on the standard compass. | Cardinal direction |
| A landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. | Mountain |
| a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. | River |
| The relation between the length of a feature on a map and the length of the actual feature on Earth's surface. | Scale |
| define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, states or subnational administrative divisions. | Borders |
| one of several large landmasses on Earth. | Continent |
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