Social Studies » Vocabulary http://ssit2.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Wed, 07 May 2008 02:36:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Geography Terms http://ssit2.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/geography-terms/ http://ssit2.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/geography-terms/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:50:53 +0000 Ms. N http://ssit2.edublogs.org/2007/09/04/geography-terms/ Below are the geography terms that we have covered in the mapping section of the geography unit.

Plan- drawing of what you would see looking down from the ceiling.

Scale- the ratio of the distance on a map to the real distance

Aerial photo- a photo taken form the air

As the crow flies- the straight line distance between two places

Sketch map- a simple/ rough map to do a job

OS (Ordnance Survey maps)- maps of places that are to scale and give a lot of detail

Contour Lines- line on a map joining places that are the same height above sea level

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