Mapping Earth's Surface

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__________ is the distance in degrees north or south of the equator.
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A large area of land where the topography where the land is similar is a
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A _________ is one half of the sphere that makes up Earth's surface.
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A _______ is a landform that is mostly flat or gently rolling with very little relief.
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Of Earth's four "spheres", the one that extends into all the others is the
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________ is the shape of the land.
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Earth's solid, rocky outer layer is called the __________.
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A _________ is a landform with a high elevation and a more or less level surface.
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The change in elevation between contour lines is the _____________.
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The height above sea level of a point on Earth's surface is its _________.
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__________ is an imaginary line that circles Earth.
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___________ is a feature of topography formed by the processes that shape Earth's surface.
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Earth's oceans, rivers, lakes, and ice form the ____________.
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Computers use information about the Earth's surface that has been digitized, or put into numbers.
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_________is the distance in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian.
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Relief measures a landform's height above sea level.
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A ________ is a sphere that represents earth's entire surface.
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Latitude is a measurement of the distance north or south of the
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_________ are pictures that stand for features on Earth's surface.
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A _______ is 1/360 of the way around a full circle.
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A ______ is a list of all symbols used on a map along with their meaning.
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A ___________ is a landform with high elevation and high relief.
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__________ is 0 degrees longitude and runs through Greenwich, England, from the North to the South Pole.
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________________ is a method of using latitude, longitude, and elevation of points on earth's surface by using a network of satellites.
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If contour lines are spaced very wide apart, then the slope of the land is very steep.
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A landform that has a high elevation and a mostly flat surface is a
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Going North or South from the equator, the distance to one of the poles is 90 degrees.
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The layer of gases that surrounds the planet is the __________.
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A __________ is a model of Earth's surface on a flat surface as seen from above.
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The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area is its ____________.
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To show continents without distorting their relative sizes or shapes, a mapmaker would choose a