Name _________________________________________ Date _____________________ Period _________
Earth Science
Lab # ______: Online Interpretation of Topographic Maps
Directions: Print a hardcopy of this lab and then keep this document open so that you may click on the blue
links located in each question. Write your answers in the spaces provided. DON’T FORGET to label your
numbers. Assume feet unless the map tells you otherwise.
1. Devil’s Tower National Monument
a. What is the elevation of Devil’s Tower in feet?
b. What is the contour interval of this map?
c. Based on the contour lines, do you believe that the top of Devil’s Tower is jagged, flat, or domeshaped?
d. What does the dashed line (= = or ---) that circles Devil’s Tower represent?
2. Mystic Connecticut
a. What is the contour interval of this map?
b. Locate Pequot Hill, what is the highest possible elevation for this hill?
c. In which direction does the “Brook” west of Pequot Hill flow?
i. Explain how you determined your answer for question c above.
3. Bishop
a. What is the contour interval for this map (Hint: Look in the NW part of the map)?
b. In which direction does the North Fork of Bishop Creek flow?
c. In which direction does the South Fork of Bishop Creek flow?
d. What is the approximate elevation of the mobile home park located neat the center of the map?
4. St. Albans
a. What is the contour interval of this map?
b. Locate Aldis Hill on this map:
i. According to the benchmark, what is the highest elevation for this hill?
ii. Which side (compass direction) of Aldis Hill is the steepest? How do you know?
iii. Which side (compass direction) of Aldis Hill has the gentlest slope? How do you know?
c. Locate the swamp in the northwest part of the map and find the stream.
i. In which compass direction does the stream flow?
ii. Does the stream flow INTO or OUT of the swamp?
5. Honolulu
a. What type of feature is shown in the center of Diamond Head State Monument?
6. Alma, Georgia
a. What is the contour interval of this map?
b. What is the lowest elevation shown on the map (Hint: Look in the southeastern part).
7. Derry, New Hampshire
a. What is the contour interval of this map?
b. Find the PURPLE water tank north of the city of Derry. What is its elevation?
c. Find West Running Brook in the southeast part of the map. In which compass direction does it
flow?