How To Read A Topographic Map Middle School

You can then orient yourself using the map so you do not get lost or turned around.

How to read a topographic map middle school. Worksheets are topographic map reading practice work topographic map work lesson 4how to read a topographic map lesson 5 reading and interpreting maps and aerial photographs topographic map work topographic maps and countours slope and topographic maps topographic maps. Note the contour lines on the map. An 80 foot interval simply means that each contour line is 80 vertical feet away from. It is the one stop shop for learning about using and teaching topographic map conceptsobjectivestopographic map informationmap projectionsmap.

This lesson will help students learn how to read that map. On the poster is atopographic map of salt lake city. To read a topographic map you need to understand the representations of the many circles and lines scrawled all over the terrain. These lines connect points of equal elevation.

To read topographic maps you can assess the contour lines as well as the colors and symbols on the map. Each line is a different elevation but some of these lines have numbers on them. Displaying all worksheets related to how to read a topographic map. Every fifth contour line is a thicker index lineat some point along that line its exact elevation is listed.

Introductionthis directory level site includes links to various resources on topographic maps how to obtain them read them their history and map projections and includes links to various teaching activities and modules. How to read a topographic map. Some lines will have the recorded elevation written in the line. Learning to use a topographic mapis a difficult skill because it requires stu dents to visualize a three dimensional surface from a flat piece of paper.

The change in elevation from one contour line to the next is always the same within the same mapmany maps have either a 40 or 80 foot contour interval.