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These first maps showed topographical features such as roads, cities, rivers, and mountains. Where and when were these maps created?
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| These first maps were created for land taxation purposes, where and when? | Mesopotamia, around 2400 B.C.E. |
| These first maps showed topographical features such as roads, cities, rivers, and mountains. Where and when were these maps created? | Roman era around 335-366 A.D. |
| The word topography is derived from Greek. The word topos means ___, and graphien means ___? | A place/to write |
| This word in Greek means “written, or drawn description of a place”? | Topography |
| One of the first modern (1539) ways of mapping involved the concept dividing an area into triangles, triangulated irregular networks (TIN), and became a basic technique for field surveying and it is still used today. Who developed it? | Reiner Gemma Frisius |
| This type of map is one that shows the physical landscape features of a place, generally showing things like mountains, rivers and lakes? | Physical map |
| On this type of map, mountains and elevation changes are usually shown with different colors and shapes to show relief? | Physical map |
| Normally on this type of map, green shows lower elevations while browns show high elevations? | Physical map |
| This type of map is similar to a physical map in that it shows different physical landscape features, but differs because it uses contour lines instead of colours to show changes in the landscape? | Topographic maps |
| On topographic maps, these are normally spaced at regular intervals to show elevation changes? | Contour lines |
| When contour lines are close together, the terrain is considered to be? | Steep |
| When contour lines are spread apart, the terrain is considered to be? | Flat |
| These types of maps were initially compiled from topographic maps and stereographic interpretations of aerial photographs, satellite photography and radar data? | Digital Elevation Models (DEM) |
| This type of map is a detailed and accurate two-dimensional representation of natural and human made features on the earth surface, using a variety of symbols? | A topographic map |
| This term can be technically defined as the shape, configuration, relief, roughness or three dimensional quality of the earth's surface? | Topography |
| This map is a three-dimensional shape of the earth’s surface that is modeled by the use of contour lines? | Topographic maps |
| On this type of map, features are shown as points, lines, or areas, depending on their size and extent? | Topographic map |
| On this type of map, many features are shown by lines that may be straight, curved, solid, dashed, dotted, or in any combination. The colour of lines usually indicate similar kinds or classes of information? | Topographic map |
| This was an older, non-numeric mode of representing relief? | Hachures |
| This manner of showing topographic relief represents orientation of slope, and by their thickness and overall density they provide a general sense of steepness? | Hachures |
| This manner of showing topographic relief is a form of shading, although different from the one used in shaded (physical) maps? | Hachures |
| On a map, these strokes (short line segments or curves) are drawn in the direction of the steepest slope (the aspect direction)? | Hachures |
| Hatchures that are composed of thicker, shorter and closer strokes represent what type of topography? | Steeper slopes |
| Hatchures that are composed of thinner, longer strokes that are farther apart represent what type of topography? | Gentle slopes |
| This manner of showing topographic relief traditionally uses two complementary colours on a neutral background colour (e.g. black and white lines on a gray map colour) to give shading effect as if relief were illuminated? | Hachures |
| These are imaginary lines that connect locations of similar elevation? | Contours |
| These lines make it possible to represent the height of mountains and the steepness of slopes on a two-dimensional map surface? | Contours |
| These contour lines are wider, spaced at regular intervals and have elevation values printed in several places along the line in order to help the user determine the height of elevation? | Index contours |
| The narrower intermediate and supplementary contours which help to show more details of the land surface shape are found between? | Index contours |
| These are the narrower intermediate lines between the index contours which help to show more detail of the land surface shape? | Supplementary contours |
| Contour lines that V upwards indicate the presence of? | River Valley |
| Contour lines that V downwards indicate the presence of? | Ridges |
| A map of a relatively flat area may have a contour interval of ____ or less, while maps and mountainous areas may have contour intervals of ____ or more? | 3 m/30 m |
| Contours are ____ to the direction of maximum slope? | Perpendicular |
| Slope between adjacent contour lines is assumed to be ____? | Uniform |
| Rough, rugged terrain is indicated by what kind of contours? | Irregular contours |
| What do concentric close contours that increase in elevation represent? | Hills |
| This contour forms a closed loop around lower ground and is called a? | Depression contour |
| What types of topographic features cause contours to come close in contact on a topographic map? | A wall, cliff or natural bridge |
| Contour lines go in pairs up this topographic feature? | Valleys |
| Contour lines go in pairs along the sides of this topographic feature? | Ridge tops |
| It is a sloping ridge jutting out from the side of a hill. When standing at the tip of one of these, the land drops in front of you and on both sides, but is relatively flat behind you? | Spur |
| A dip in the elevation between two Hills is called a? | Saddle |
| This is a term used for an unimproved road? | Track |
| If you are standing at the bottom facing into one of these, the land slopes up in front of you and on both sides, and slopes down behind you. It appears as a loop or hump in the contour lines? | Reentrant (small valley) |
| This topographic feature should only designate features one contour or less in height, but the term is sometimes casually used to describe larger features. Depending on its size it is shown on the map as a contour line or a brown dot? | A knoll (small hill) |
| This feature is mapped as a black dot, and it is large enough to be distinguished from its surroundings? | Boulder (A free standing rock) |
| A vertical or nearly vertical feature that is shown on a map by a black bar with teeth (looks like a comb), or it is shown by successive contour lines drawn very close together? | Cliff |
| When a contour line crosses a stream it will take on a V-shape with the point of the V pointing in which direction? | Uphill |
| When contour lines form a U-shape they denote a ridge or spur, with the bottom of the U pointing in which direction? | Downhill |
| This occurs when contour lines of the hill are far apart at first, then come close together. This hill will be easy to climb at first, but then it gets steep? | Concave |
| This occurs when contour lines of a hill are close together first, then get farther apart. The hill will be hard to climb at first but then it becomes easy? | Convex |
| It is the term referring to feature and place names that are added to provide textual information about map features? | Toponamy |
| It is a modern method used for obtaining topographic information which accounts for a very large percentage of topographic surveys today? | Total station |
| It is a modern method for obtaining topography for larger areas, given the appropriate terrain conditions? | Photogrammetry |
| These surveys can only be done on clear days and in situations where snow or dense vegetation do not obscure the ground surface? | Photogrammetric surveys |
| This modern method of obtaining topography is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object? | Remote sensing |
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