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1. What is the contour interval of this map?
Contour interval: ____ feet
2. What is the difference in elevation from one index contour to the next?
Difference in elevation:____feet
3. On most quadrangles, each section is numbered in red and outlined in red or, occasionally, dashed black lines. Find Section 9, located near the center of the map, and measure its width and length in milesusing the bar scale provided.
Sections are _____ miles(s) wide and ____mile(s) long
4. Locate the small intermittent stream (blue dashed line) just below the red number 9 that denotes Section 9. Toward what general direction does the stream flow? Explain how you arrived at your answer.
Direction of stream flow: ____
Explain: ______
5. What is the approximate elevation of the point marked with an X in Section 8?
Elevation of X _____ feet
6. What is the approximate relief between point X and the surface of Turquoise Lake?
Relief:____feet
7. Which of the following phrases best describes the topography of Tennessee Park: steep, rugged terrain; hilly terrain; or gradually sloping to flat terrain?
8. The area on both sides of Tennessee Creek in Section 9 is marked with blue symbols that do not represent streams. What do these symbols indicate? (See the inside front cover of the lab book if necessary.)
9. Describe the elevation change you would encounter as you walked from the boat ramp (Point A) on the north-east shore of Turquoise Lake, directly northward along the dashed line to Point B. (Use terms such as steep, gradual, moderate, uphill, downhill, and relatively flat.)
10. What is the elevation of the town of Leadville, Colorado, to the nearest 1000 feet?
Elevation of Leadville: ____ feet
11. Examine the numbers of each section shown in red on this map. Portions of how many congressional townships are represented?
Portions of ___ congressional townships.
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