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- topography
- all natural and human made surface features of a prticular area
- map scale
- the camparison of distance on a map with actual distance on what the map represents,such as earths surface
- relief map
- a map that shows the differences in elevation in an area,relief maps can show elevation through the use of contour lines,shading,colors,and in some cases,three dimensional materials
- biosphere
- all living organisms on the earth in the air,on the land,and in the waters
- hydrosphere
- all water on earth in the atmosphere and in the oceans,lakes,glaciers,rivers,streams,and ungerground reservoirs
- system
- a group of objects or phenomena that interact
- atmosphere
- the outer layer of gasesof a large body in space,such as a planet or star
- geosphere
- all the features on earth's surface continents,islands,and seafloor and everything below the surface the inner and outer core and the mantle
- map legend
- a chart that explains the meaning of earth symbol used on a map,also calles a key
- latitude
- the distance in degrees north or south from the equator
- longitude
- the distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian longitude lines are nubered from 0 to 80
- prime meridian
- an imaginary north south line that divides the planet into eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere
- projection
- a representation of earths curved surface on a flat map