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The purpose of this lab is to familiarize students with how to read and use topographic maps. This is a critical skill to prepare students to learn about more complex geologic maps. Note: the maps used in this lab are in colour and the colours have significance in terms of the symbols and patterns used on the maps – it is best to print this lab in colour and from a pdf version.
- Joyce McBeth, Karla Panchuk, Tim Prokopiuk, Lyndsay Hauber, Sean Lacey
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The Reading Topographic Maps Gizmo allows you to see how a three-dimensional landscape can be represented by a two-dimensional map. The controls at the top of the Gizmo allow you to manipulate the landscape on the left and the map on the right. Try each tool: With the Rotate tool selected, click and drag to turn the map or landscape.
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GEG-1L: Lab 3 Topographic Map Reading Lab. What is the latitude at the northernmost edge of the map? Give your answer in degrees, minutes, and seconds, of latitude. Click the card to flip 👆.
Sep 11, 2013 · Lab Procedures. There are three parts to this lab: developing your topographic map reading skills by working with simplified diagrams that illustrate key elements of topographic maps; practicing your map-reading skills with snippets from real topographic maps; and applying your skills by interpreting an actual quadrangle topographic map. Refer ...
Part 1: Develop your topographic map reading skills by working with simplified diagrams that illustrate key elements of topographic maps. Part 2: Practice your map reading skills by interpreting snippets from topographic maps. Part 3: Apply your skills to interpret an actual topographic map of a full quadrangle. 1.
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OBJECTIVES: 1. to learn how to read topographic maps and to be able to derive qualitative and quantitative data (e.g., distance, elevation) from them; 2. to learn how to determine the position of points on topographic maps using latitude and longitude and the Land Office Grid system; 3. to learn how to construct topographic profiles;
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Goals – your goals in this lab are twofold. 1) Understand how a topographic map represents the Earth’s surface and be able to create and interpret such a map. 2) Solve problems using published topographic maps and your newly discovered map-reading abilities. Location: Location information identifies the area covered by a map.
