A landform made up of nearly flat or gently rolling land with low relief.
What is a plain?
100
This kind of map shows the surface features of an area.
What is a topographic map?
100
Some sources of map data are...
What is GPS or satellite (and possibly airplanes)?
200
What a plain looks like on a topographic map.
What are contour lines that are spaced very far apart?
200
A landform with high elevation and high relief.
What is a mountain?
200
The change in elevation from contour line to contour line.
What is the contour interval?
200
The first step in both plotting contours and profiling topographic maps is to...
What is find the contour interval?
300
A steep change in elevation would look like this on a topographic map.
Having contour lines spaced very close together.
300
A landform that has high elevation and a more or less level surface.
What is a plateau?
300
Contour lines that are labeled with the elevation in round units, such as 1,600 or 2,000 feet above sea level.
What are index contours?
300
To determine this, you must subtract two index contours and then divide the relief among each contour line between the two index contours.
What is the contour interval?
400
How you can tell which direction a river is flowing on a topographic map.
What is a v-shaped contour line, with the point of the v pointing uphill.
OR
A v-shaped contour line, with the river flowing out of the open end of the v.
400
The shape of the land which includes an areas elevation, relief, and landforms.
What is topography?
400
The proportion that a map bears to the area it represents. This can be found in the map's legend.
What is a map scale?
400
This process shows the birds eye images from a topographic map from a side view.
What is profiling?
500
This line connects points of equal elevation.
What is a contour line?
500
A v-shaped contour line indicates this topographical feature.
What is a valley?
500
This cardinal direction is always located at the top of the map unless otherwise indicated by the map legend.
What is north?
500
The third step of plotting countour lines.
Listing each needed contour line between the highest and lowest elevations on the map.