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How does a relief of an area determine the contour interval used on a map?
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∙ 10y ago
Roxanne Lipsey:
Contour lines are drawn at specific intervals, such as every 10 feet, 20 feet or 30 feet. Each line represents a multiple of the scale chosen. Using the 10-foot scale as an example, each contour interval would represent a 10 feet change in elevation.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe contour interval in a topographical map is the amount between one circle and the one inside of it. For example if there was a circle and another one outside of it but the amount inside is thin on one side and thicker on the outside, and the contour interval is ten yards, then although one side is steeper then the other, it still shows the rise of 10 yards.
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I am in 6th grade and I learned this in earth Science. Thank you.
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∙ 11y ago2 ways: First, it is usually printed on the map somewhere. Different maps place the contour interval in different places, so you may have to look hard. Second, some of the contour lines are labeled. Just count the number of contour lines and dive the difference in elevation by that number.
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∙ 10y agoThe interval itself is stated.
The lines, or the major-division ones anyway, are labelled with the altitudes they indicate. Counting and multiplying by the increment stated on the map's key gives the altitudes of the intervening, non-labelled lines.
So by measuring the distances between chosen points on them in plan by reference to the map scale you can use simple trigonometry to calculate the mean gradient between the points.
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∙ 12y agoThe contour interval is always indicated somewhere in the margin of the topo map,
along with other symbols and scales.
Also, there are always some contours on the map that are printed in a bolder line than
others, and have the elevation printed along the line. You can find two of these that
are parallel, count the number of lighter contours between them, and that will tell you
the interval.
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∙ 10y agoSteep hillsides have contour lines closer together because you don't have to go far horizontally to get from one contour height to the next.
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