Topographic Maps

Did you hear that?! What should she have said instead of 'mid-ocean trench'?

• Mid ocean RIDGE

• thingamajig

What is the contour interval on this map?

• 10 meters

• 20 meters

• 50 meters

What is the highest elevation of Able hill?

• Somewhere between 40 meters and 49 meters. 

• Exactly 40 meters

What is the elevation of the valley between the 2 hills?

• 50 meters

• Between 20 and 29 meters

The darker, bolded contour lines are called...

• Index contours

• Contour intervals

The highest elevation on a contour map is always the...

• biggest circle

• smallest circle

Drawing hachures, or little lines perpendicular to the contour lines shows that the land...

• decreases in elevation - like a crater or a lake

• increases in elevation- like a peak

This is a...

• plain

• mountain

• plataeu

What is the INDEX contour interval on this map? (what is the difference between each contour interval?)

• 200

• 300

• 100

What do contour lines that are close together mean?

• more steep

• less steep