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Earth Science Mapping

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What is a field?   An area of measurement  
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What is a field value?   Whatever you are measuring in the field  
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What is a map scale used for?   distance  
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On paper, you can easily represent two dimensions (length and width) but we live in a three dimensional world. So how do we represent that third dimension on 2-d paper?   By using a series of lines called isolines. (*ice cream, different flavors)  
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What does an isoline LITERALLY mean?   equal lines  
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What is an isoline?   a line of equal value (all points of the line are the same  
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What does a topographic map (surface topography) represent?   elevation  
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What is an interval?   what the lines are counting by  
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What can an isoline represent?   Depression contour & elevation contour  
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What is a depression contour?   (goes down, *holes)  
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What is an elevation contour?   (goes up)  
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What is the reference line for elevation?   sea level (0)  
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What is a profile?   a way to visually bring out that third dimension  
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Highest and Lowest Elevation   Decreasing contours- line on profile dip below labeled contour line Increasing contours- line on profile rise above the labeled contour line  
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What is the difference between actual and possible?   (a) on graph, (p) one below interval  
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What are hachured lines?   *depression contours, indicate elevation is going down in the case of a hole or depression, first depression contour takes the value of the lowest contour line surrounding it and every one after that decreases by the contour interval  
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How can you tell the stream flow direction?   flow from higher to lower, when contour lines cross stream, they bend into a "V", the water flows out of the "V"  
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