Landforms & Maps vocab

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Flat, raised landform of nearly horizontal rocks uplifted

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Plateau

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Meaning of symbols on a map

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Map legend

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Map showing Earth's elevation changes

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Topographic map

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Relationship between distances on a map and Earth's surface

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Map scale

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Large, flat platform in the continent

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Plain

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Map projecting points & lines from a globe onto a cone

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Conic projection

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Mountains formed by molten material reaching Earth's surface

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Volcanic mountains

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Mountains formed from huge, tilted rock blocks separated by faults

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Fault-block mountains

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Line on a map connecting equal elevation points

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contour line

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Imaginary line at 0° latitude

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Equator