Landforms & Maps vocab

Flat, raised landform made up of nearly horizontal rocks that have been uplifted

• Table top

• Plateau

• Plain

• Equator

Explains the meaning of symbols on a map

• Map scale

• Map compass

• Map legend

• Car key

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS2-2

Map that shows the changes in elevation of Earth's surface

• Topographic map

• Contour map

• Map legend

• Robinson projection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Relationship between distances on a map and distances on Earth's surface

• Map key

• Index contour

• Map scale

• Map legend

Large, flat platform usually found in the interior region of the continent

• Plain

• Plateau

• Folded mountain

• Valley

Map made by projecting points & lines from a globe onto a cone

• Mercator projection

• Conic projection

• Topographic projection

• Robinson projection

Mountains formed when molten material reaches Earth's surface

• Fault-block mountains

• Upwarped mountains

• Volcanic mountains

• Folded mountains

Mountains formed from huge, tilted blocks of rock separated from surrounding rocks by faults

• Fault-block mountains

• Folded mountains

• Upwarped mountains

• Volcanic mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Line on a map that connects points of equal elevation

• map scale

• legend

• contour line

• hachure

Imaginary line that wraps around the Earth at 0 degrees latitude

• Prime meridian

• Equator

• International date line

• 0 longitude