Further Study
Can you find different terrain on a map?
Goal:
Goal:
Look at a globe or map that shows geographical topography, and see if you can locate different forms of terrain where other people live. Run your fingers over these maps. Can you see the tools cartographers (mapmakers) use to show what the terrain looks like in different regions? Pictured above is a shaded relief view of part of a topographic map. This perspective view illustrates how the contour lines on a topographic map describe terrain by following the shape of the land at a constant elevation.