Map Skills Review

What technique is often used to show elevation from sea level?

A map that shows how people use the resources in their area.

Cause continents to move slowly over millions of years. Movement makes mountains & earthquakes.

A map that uses contour lines to show elevation.

Imaginary line of latitude that circles earth at 0 degrees. Splits earth into two hemispheres.

Which of these people would need an elevation map the most?

A set of latitude and longitude measurements that define a point of the global grid.

How did the recovery team find the Apollo so quickly in the Pacific Ocean?

How do cartographers lessen distortion on a map?

An imaginary line of longitude that divides earth into eastern and western hemispheres.

A map that shows elevation from sea level using color coding.

A view of something from the side. Elevation can be shown this way.

What kind of landform occurs when tectonic plates run into each other?

Why does elevation have an impact on farming?

A change or shift in the natural size of something, such as continents when mapping the earth.

The pattern on a world map formed by intersecting lines of latitude and longitude.

Large chunks of the earth's crust that the continents and oceans rest upon.

A vertical line on the map. Vertical means up and down (north to south).

What do closely spaced contour lines tell you about an area's land?

A map where shading is used to show elevation.

A horizontal line on the map. Horizontal means left to right (east to west).

The act of taking a 3D earth and putting it on a 2D map.