Land Navigation / Map Reading
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| show | FM 3-25.26
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| show | Figures used to represent types of military organizations, installations, and activities
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| show | Lower left margin
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| show | Imaginary lines on the ground connecting equal elevation, they represent high and low ground elevation.
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| show | Index; Intermediate; Supplementary
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| show | 17.7 mils
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| How many Norths are there on a military map? | show 🗑
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| show | A hill is shown on a map by contour lines forming concentric circles. The inside of the smallest closed circle is the hilltop.
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| What shape are the contour lines that indicate a saddle? | show 🗑
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| What shape are the contour lines that indicate a valley? | show 🗑
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| show | Contour lines forming a ridge tend to be U-shaped or V-shaped. The closed end of the contour line points away from high ground.
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| show | Usually only depressions that are equal to or greater than the contour interval will be shown. On maps, depressions are represented by closed contour lines that have tick marks pointing toward low ground.
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| show | The contour lines depicting a draw are U-shaped or V-shaped, pointing toward high ground.
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| show | Contour lines on a map depict a spur with the U or V pointing away from high ground.
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| show | Cliffs are also shown by contour lines very close together and, in some instances, touching each other.
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| show | This contour line extends the length of the cut and has tick marks that extend from the cut line to the roadbed, if the map scale permits this level of detail.
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| show | This contour line extends the length of the filled area and has tick marks that point toward lower ground. If the map scale permits, the length of the fill tick marks are drawn to scale and extend from the base line of the fill symbol.
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| show | It must be oriented.
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| show | Hill; Ridge; Valley; Saddle; Depression
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| show | Draw; Spur; Cliff
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| What are the 2 supplementary terrain features found on a military map? | show 🗑
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| show | A map is a graphic representation of a portion of the earth’s surface drawn to scale, as seen from above.
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| show | A horizontal angle, measured in a clockwise manner from a north base line, expressing direction.
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| show | The distance between the highest and lowest points measured.
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| show | The vertical distance between adjacent contour lines on a map.
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| What is the distance between grid lines on a combat map? | show 🗑
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| How many mils are there in a circle? | show 🗑
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| Which north is used when using a military map? | show 🗑
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| show | Away from metal (weapons, electrical devices), level and firm
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| show | Compass-to-Cheek Method Center-Hold Method
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| Are topographic symbols drawn to scale? | show 🗑
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| show | Man-made and natural features
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| In military symbols, what colors are used for a map overlay and what do they represent? | show 🗑
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| show | The opposite direction of an azimuth.
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| show | To obtain a back azimuth from an azimuth, add 180 degrees if the azimuth is 180 degrees or less; subtract 180 degrees if the azimuth is 180 degrees or more
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| show | Shows the angular relationship between the magnetic north, grid north and true north
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| What is the general rule for reading military grid coordinates? | show 🗑
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| show | 2
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| What is a benchmark? | show 🗑
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| show | Measured distances going north or south of the equator
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| What is an aerial photograph? | show 🗑
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| What does UTM stand for? | show 🗑
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| show | 3
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| show | 120
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| show | Black
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| show | Use a compass and terrain association
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| show | FM 1-02
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| show | Magnetic north
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| show | Forward Line Of Troops
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| show | Gray- alternate color for brown, Yellow- built up areas, and Pink- political boundaries
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| What is longitude? | show 🗑
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| show | Portrays terrain and land forms in a measurable way as well as horizontal features of the positions represented
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| What is a small-scale map? | show 🗑
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| What is a medium-scale map? | show 🗑
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| What is a large-scale map? | show 🗑
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| show | Finding the location of an unknown point by sighting two or more known points
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| show | When used correctly, a map can give you accurate distances, locations and heights, best routes key terrain features and cover and concealment information.
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| show | Resection is the method of locating one’s position on a map by determining the grid azimuth to at least two well-defined locations that can be pinpointed on the map.
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| If you find a symbol on a map that is unknown to you, where would you look? | show 🗑
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| show | There are two: Degrees & Mils
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| What are the 4 quadrants on a map? | show 🗑
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| What are the three elements for a land navigation process known as Dead Reckoning? | show 🗑
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| show | The dials and needles are luminous
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| What is a polar coordinate? | show 🗑
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| show | UTM
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| show | The inner red ring is used to find degrees, and the outer black ring is used to find mils
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| show | The shadow-tip method, the watch method, and the North Star method
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| What is a contour level? | show 🗑
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| The border line around the edge of the map is called the what? | show 🗑
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| show | Gentle; Steep; Concave; Convex
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| show | At least 2
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| What are the three main map sizes? | show 🗑
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| What are two methods of measuring an azimuth? | show 🗑
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| How close will an eight-digit grid get you to your point? | show 🗑
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| show | 100 meters
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| show | The bar scale
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