Road Scholar terms:Topographic map
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| Map features | Any part of the earth's surface, or anything found on the earth's surface, that can be represented on a map
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| Location | Position of a particular point on the surface of the planet.
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| Series | What year the map was issued
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| Scale | The ratio of a model's linear dimension to the original's corresponding dimension. The scale is a number that scales, or multiplies, some quantity
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| Index | Darker lines, marked with the elevations
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| Legend | Displays the meanings of symbols and colors used to represent data on a geographical map
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| Distance | The amount of space between two things or people. A scale displays it
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| Contours | a line drawn on a topographic map to indicate ground level or depression
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| Elevation of features and symbols | Found by using contours. Height of mountains, depths of oceans and steepness of slopes
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| Watershed | The direction in which stream flows and flood impact areas. As one proceeds upstream, successively higher contour lines parallel and then cross the stream
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| Public land survey system | A way of subdividing and describing land in the U.S.
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| Sector Reference System | A system used for finding a specific area of a map, with 4 quadrants
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| Azimuths | The angel between the northern measured clockwise around the observer's horizon, and a celestial body(The Sun)
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| Bearing | Provides the direction given by the primary compass (north or south), the degree of angle, and an east or west designation
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| Magnetic Declination | The deviation of the compass from true north.
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| Survey Control marks=Control points | A place on the property where the surveyor wouldn't like to be disturbed(Can be marked with
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| Graticule Tick Marks | Graphics that mark divisions of measurements on a scale bar
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| Graticule Intersections | The network of intersecting lines of latitude and longitude
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| Slope | When you look up a hill, the incline going up
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| Topographic map profiles | A cross-sectional view along a line drawn through a portion of a topographic map
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