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What is a Topographic Map?
represent lines of equal elevation above (or below) a reference datum. To visualize what a contour line represents, picture a mountain (or any other topographic feature) and imagine slicing through it with a perfectly flat, horizontal piece of glass. The intersection of the moun...
Mapping Ancient Coastlines
National Science Content Standards 9-12: Origin and Evolution of the Earth System National Science Content Standards 9-12: Geochemical Cycles National Geography Standard 1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report informatio...
Mapping Potato Island
If you were taking a hike along a hillside and not walking either uphill or downhill, you would be walking on a contour line. When contour lines are close together, the slope is very steep. When contour lines are far apart, the slope is very shallow. This type of map is h...
Reading contour maps
Quia - Reading contour maps Home FAQ About Log in Subscribe now 30-day free trial Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. Reading contour maps Tools Copy this to my account E-mail to a friend Find other activities Start over Return to c...
Introduction to Maps
Benefit the Environment Citizen Science Buzz Introduction to Maps Summary: Students are briefly introduced to several types of maps that are used for different purposes. Materials: Globe Road map Topographic map Raised relief map and/or shaded relief map Satellite phot...
Inventor Profiles: Thomas Blanchard
Invention Impact In 1819, Blanchard conceived a device with a model attached to a tracing wheel and a raw block of wood attached to a cutting wheel. The tracing wheel followed the contours of the revolving model, while the cutting wheel duplicated the form in the wood block...
 Watershed Education: National Leadership Forum Report
and so constituency and public support is not only lost but never really rallied. Indeed, the highly complex geographic nature of watersheds — their contours, their large size, and their non-adherence to traditional political boundaries — makes them inherently difficult to comprehend. Th...
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and so constituency and public support is not only lost but never really rallied. Indeed, the highly complex geographic nature of watersheds — their contours, their large size, and their non-adherence to traditional political boundaries — makes them inherently difficult to comprehend. They are hard to visualize even by those few Americans familiar with contour maps and physiographic features and they are nearly impossible to grasp by those who never see a contour map or ever think about how the land is formed
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and so constituency and public support is not only lost but never really rallied. Indeed, the highly complex geographic nature of watersheds — their contours, their large size, and their non-adherence to traditional political boundaries — makes them inherently difficult to comprehend. They are hard to visualize even by those few Americans familiar with <span class="highlight">contour</span> <span class="highlight">maps</span> and physiographic features and they are nearly impossible to grasp by those who never see a <span class="highlight">contour</span> map or ever think about how the land is formed
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