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What On a topographic map what indicates the difference in elevation between adjacent lines?
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Contour interval
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On a topographic map what indicates the difference in elevation between adjacent lines?
Contour interval
What tells the difference in elevation between two adjacent lines on a topographic map?
contour lines
Contour interval is what?
the elevation difference between two adjacent contour lines.
What is a contour invert?
The elevation difference between two adjacent lines.
What is Contouring?
the elevation difference between two adjacent contour lines.
What tells you the difference in elevation between two adjacent lines on a topograph?
Color
What is the name for the elevation difference between two adjacent contour lines?
Contour interval.
How do the contour line on topographic map indicate the slop of the land?
A contour line is an imaginary line connecting point of equal elevation. Going from one line to an adjacent line is a change in slope.
What is the name for the elevation between two adjacent contour lines?
Elevation
What is the difference between the topographic floodplain and the hydrologic floodplain?
Hydrologic floodplain, the land adjacent to the baseflow channel residing below bankfull elevation. It is inundated about two years out of three. Not every stream corridor has a hydrologic floodplain.Topographic floodplain, the land adjacent to the channel including the hydrologic floodplain and other lands up to an elevation based on the elevation reached by a flood peak of a given frequency; for example, the 1-percent (100 year) floodplain.Another way to look at it, in an incising channel, that is to say that the river is cutting into valley, will create two floodplain benches, the lower and narrow one the hydrologic floodplain and the higher and much wider one the topographical floodplain.
What represents the distance in elevation between adjacent lines?
Contour numbers.
What are contour intervals?
Contour lines were first used in the Schiehallion Experiment. This was an experiment designed to find the mass of a mountain, and by calculation, the mass of the Earth!!Contour lines were invented by Charles Hutton, in 1774, as a method of determining (in that case) the volume of the mountain.They are now commonly shown on topographic maps as a method of indicating the shape of the land and the depths of lakes and the sea. The intervals vary according to the need of the map, but common 1:50 000 maps have then indicated every 20 m, with the 100m lines shown slightly bolder.
