SS Chapter 2 vocab

An explanation of what the symbols on a map stand for.

• scale

• global grid

• special-purpose map

• map key

The grid formed by crisscrossing lines of latitude and longitude

• line of longitude

• global grid

• line of latitude

• scale

A map that hows just one kind of information, such as rainfall or elevation

• map key

• plateau

• special-purpose map

• scale

A low flat land that runs along a coast

• plateau

• coastal plain

• levee

• inland

Land not bordering an ocean

• plateau

• basin

• inland

• coastal plain

A diagram that shows the relationship between distances on a map and real distances on Earth

• scale

• special-purpose map

• line of latitude

• line of longitude

Na imaginary line that runs between the North and South Poles, also called a meridian

• global grid

• scale

• line of latitude

• line of longitude

An imaginary line that runs east and west around the globe; also called a parallel

• line of latitude

• global grid

• line of longitude

• scale

A bowl-shaped landform that is lower than the surrounding land

• inland

• levee

• plateau

• basin

A high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land that surrounds it.

• plateau

• basin

• levee

• coastal plain