topography

     

Topography (topo-, "place", an graphia, "writing") is the study of Earth's surface features or those of planets, moons, and asteroids.

Trivia about topography

  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits in a flight simulator)The simulator has a database of many different airports that can be used for pilot training; for each airport satellite imagery creates this detailed mapping whose name comes from the Greek for "place writing"
  • Graphic representation of surface features on a region of a map

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