Vocabulary
What is the height above sea level?
What is elevation.
Do contour lines cross?
What is contour lines never cross.
What does the blue lines show?
What is a river.
What does a map legend do?
What is the key that tells you what the symbols on the map mean.
What are topographic maps primarily used for?
What is to show the elevation, shape, and natural features of the land.
What is the steepness or incline of the land?
What is slope.
What kind of slope do close contour lines have?
What is a steep slope.
What does a dashed grey line mean?
What is a road crossing.
How do you find the map scale on a topographical map.
What is you look at the map legend.
When planning a hiking route, why is it better to follow a trail that stays parallel to the contour lines?
What is so the change in elevation is less and makes the hike easier.
What is the lines that connect points of equal elevation on a map?
What is contour lines.
What kind of slope does wildly spread contour lines have?
What is a gentle slope.
What does the black contour lines show?
What is elevation levels in meters.
What does the map scale on a topographic map represent?
What is the ratio between a distance on a map.
What are depressions on a topographic map?
What is a sink hole that is surrounded by higher land.
What is the variation in elevation and slope in a particular area?
What is relief.
What is the difference in elevation between two adjacent contour lines called?
What is the contour interval.
How can you identify a mountain peak or hill on a topographic map using contour lines?
What is the contour lines are closer together and usually has an X on it.
Why are map scales important to a topographical map?
What is it helps us understand the relationship between the map distance and the actual distance.
What does it mean if an area of a map has no contour lines at all?
What is it is an almost or completely flat terrain.
What is the arrangement of natural and artificial physical features of an area and describes the shape, elevation, and features on the earth's surface?
What is topography.
Which way do the V-shaped contour patterns face for rivers?
What is they face upstream/highest elevation.
What are index contours?
What is thicker contour lines.
How do you find the highest point on a topographical map using the scale?
What is to find the middle contour line.
What is the reference datum from which elevations are measured?
What is vertical datum.