WATERERSHED DELINEATION EXERCISE 1 Rules of Contours

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Introduction to Contour Map Assignments….Activity 1Construct a contour map with the data given below. Use a contour interval of 5 meters.Make sure your elevations make sense. Make sure that the contour elevation you aresketching in comes between the elevations you are going between. For example: 5comes between the bold 4 and 10 below - a 15 would not.Figure 10 0 0 04 7 50 10 103010 20 15 10 0A-----------15----------30------------30-------------------A'0 20 10 03010 25 10 50 0 0_________________________________________________________________Figure 26
Activity 2Does this structure (Figure 1) represent a dome or a basin? Prove it by constructing atopographic profile. A topographic profile is a side view of topography as it wouldappear along some line on a map. Using the grid provided above (Figure 2) draw thetopographic profile from A to A'. Plot the elevation from the contour map on the profilecross-section. Do this across the profile. When you have finished, connect the dots.The relief of the contour map will be illustrated.7
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