Chapter 1 and Topographic Maps Test Review
Name _________________________
Vocabulary:
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
biosphere
Geosphere
lithosphere
Core
Mantle
latitude
longitude
Conic projection
Mercator Projection
Topographic map
index contour
Renewable resource
Nonrenewable resource
Hypothesis
theory
contour interval
1. Know the layers of the earth.
2. Know the basic rules for reading topographic maps.
3. Know how to make a topographic map profile
4. Know how to convert map scales: Graphic to fractional to verbal.
5. Be able to read and interpret topographic maps.
Practice for Scale conversion Can you convert these to both English
and Metric units (inches to miles or cm to Km?)
1: 10,000
1: 50,000
1: 24,000
1 inch equals 1.5 miles
1 inch equals 2 miles