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Name: Nathan Pierce Date: April 29, 2014 Instructor’s Name: Kristina Jantz Assignment: SCI103 Phase 4 Lab Report Title: Reading Topographic Maps Instructions: Enter the Virtual Lab and gather information to complete your report. Please type your answers. When your lab report is complete, submit it to the Submitted Assignments area of the Virtual Classroom. Part I: Answer the following questions while in the Phase 4 lab environment. Section 1: Study the topographic map resembling the area you have been conducting your field research on. Contour intervals occur every 10 meters. 1. List the elevations of the following points: A. 50 meters B. 80 meters C. 100 meters 2. Label each point with the appropriate landform or structure using the guides consulted in this Phase: D. Railroad E. Observation Point F. Roadway G. Bridge H. Spur I. Valley J. area with little or no vegetation 3. Which of the three hills (left, center, right) is the highest in elevation? Right 4. What is the highest point of this hill? 100 meters 5. Which of the three hills (left, center, right) is the lowest in elevation? Center 6. What is the steepest section in the area? Right Part II: For the following questions, provide your response in short-answer format (2–3 sentences each). Use this Phase’s activities, lab research, and resources to assist you in answering. 7. What are contour lines and inclination (incline), and how do they show the shape of the land on a topographic map? Contour lines are drawn to show levels of equal elevation in relation to sea level. They are used to show different landforms that form the Earth’s surface. 8. How would this map help you determine the floodplain? By looking for already existing marshlands and for areas with no vegetation along side an active river. 9. How would this map help you plan a building development? It allows you see areas with little or no vegetation and allows you to view the land best suited for a development. Also allows you to take into consideration the watershed of the area. 10. Where would you build, and why? I would build at point J, because it has no vegetation and is level ground best suited for construction. 11. How would this map help you plan a road to the development? It would allow you to see the elevation of the area to build the road on the shallowest grade of land in the area. 12. Where would you build and route this road, and why? I would make this road off of the already existing road South of point J. The ground is level and there is little to no vegetation to need to clear out of the way of construction.

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