Directions: Finish this test at home. You can use the ditto packet, your notes, and your textbook. You CANNOT get answers from friends. Any signs of cheating will result in a Zero that you cannot make up! Answer the questions on a piece of paper, or print this form. Use lined paper for the profiles.

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Topographic Map Quiz: Cottonwood, Colorado

(QUESTIONS 1 - 20 = 4 POINTS EACH.)

1. What is the contour interval on this map?

2. What is the elevation of location "X?"

3. What is the elevation of location "Y?"

4. What is the highest elevation represented by the contour lines on this map?

5. What is the lowest elevation represented by the contour lines on this map?

6. What is the highest possible elevation that point "A" can be?

7. What is the lowest possible elevation that point "A" can be?

8. What is the highest possible elevation that point "B" can be?

9. What is the lowest possible elevation that point "B" can be?

10. Which direction on the compass does Cottonwood Creek flow? (From ____ to ____.)

11. Which direction is the steepest side on the mountain where location "A" is?

12. Which direction is the least steep side on the mountain where location "A" is?

13. Which direction is the steepest side on the mountain where location "B" is?

14. Which direction is the least steep side on the mountain where location "B" is?

15. What is the distance between point "A" and point "B?"

16. What is the distance between point "X" and point "Y?"

17. What is the change in elevation between point "X" and point "Y?"

18. What is the change in elevation between point "A" and point "B," providing that points "A" and "B" are the highest possible elevations?

19. What is the gradient between points "X" and "Y?"

20. What is the gradient between points "A" and "B" (if both "A" and "B" are the values from questions 6, 8, and 15)?

(QUESTIONS 21 and 22 = 10 POINTS EACH.)

Use lined paper to draw the profiles!

21. Draw the profile of the line from location "A" to location "B."

22. Draw the profile of the line from location "X" to location "Y."

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