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Geo words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| archipelago | An archipelago is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean. |
| atoll | An atoll is a ring (or partial ring) of coral that forms an island in an ocean or sea. |
| bathymetric map | A bathymetric map is a map of the bottom of a body of water, noting the depth contours (these are called isobaths). |
| conic projection | A conic projection is a type of map in which a cone is wrapped around a sphere (the globe), and the details of the globe are projected onto the conic surface. Then, the cone is unwrapped into a flat surface. |
| geyser | A geyser is a natural hot spring that occasionally sprays water and steam above the ground. |
| Mercator projection | A Mercator projection is a type of rectangular map (a cylindrical projection) in which the true compass directions are kept intact (lines of latitude and longitude intersect at right angles), but areas are distorted (for example, polar areas look much lar |
| Mollweide projection | A Mollweide projection is a type of sinusoidal projection map in which the entire surface of the Earth is shown within an ellipse. Lines of latitude are parallel to the equator, but lines of longitude are curved in such a way that area distortion is minim |
| planimetric map | A planimetric map is a map that represents only the horizontal positions of features (and not the vertical positions, like heights, which a topographic map shows). |
| topographic map | A topographic map is a map that represents elevations on it. |
| Winkel Tripel projection | A Winkel Tripel projection is a type of pseudocylindrical projection map in which both the lines of latitude and longitude are curved. The Winkel Tripel projection was adopted by the National Geographic Society in the late 1990s (replacing the Robinson pr |