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