Fun Colors
What are the colors of a military map?
The five major terrain features (Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing)
What are hill, ridge, valley, saddle, depression
The correct way to read grid coordinates
What is Right and Up?
Using terrain features and man made features to find where you are on a map
What is terrain association?
TC 3-25.2
What is the publication that covers map reading and land navigation?
Or
What is "Map Reading and Land Navigation"?
Items that are the color black on a military map
What are cultural (man-made) features other than roads?
Cliff, Draw, and Spur
What are the minor terrain features?
The accuracy of an 8-digit grid coordinate
What is 10 meters?
The first step of orienting your map
What is holding your map in a horizontal position and ensuring the map and compass are aligned?
A graphic representation of a portion of the earth’s surface drawn to scale as seen from above, using colors, symbols and labels to represent features found on the ground
What is a map?
The color that represents relief features and elevation
What is the color brown on military maps?
The two supplementary terrain features
What are cut, and fill?
How close will a 6 digit grid place you
100 meters
What are any of the following: roads, hilltops, mountains, cliffs, spurs, etc.
Where useful information about the map is located and explained and the most helpful place to look first when interpreting a military map
What is the map's marginal information and symbols?
The color red on a military map
What is the color that represents major roads and populated areas
An area of high ground that slopes down in all directions
What is a hill?
Used for measuring angles, typically in the form of a flat semicircle marked with degrees along the curved edge.
What is a protractor?
How many steps you take per 100 meters
What is pace /step count?
Where commonly used symbols are explained on a map
What is the map's legend
The color of vegetation on a military map
What is green?
A dip or low point between two area of higher ground
What is a saddle?
The accuracy of a 4-digit grid coordinate
What is 1,000 meters or 1 kilometer?
Picking a reference point within your azimuths line of sight
What is dead reckoning?
The three types of contour lines
What are Index, Intermediate, and Supplementary?