1. E.Q: How do map makers represent elevations, relief and slope?
Topographic Maps
E.Q: How do map makers represent elevations, relief and slope?

2. Topographic Map – map showing the surface features of an area using symbols to portray the land as if you were looking from above
Birds Eye View
Topographic Maps

3. Topographic Maps
Relief – the variations in elevation of a land surface
Contour Line – represent elevation, relief, and slope; and connects points of equal elevation
Contour Intervals – change in elevation from one contour line to another
Index Contours – darker line than the others and are labeled with the elevation above sea level in round units

4. How to Read Topographic Maps
To read a topographic map, you must understand the maps scale, symbols, and contour lines
Places where lines are close together are very steep
Where the lines are far apart the land is relatively gentle
The actual elevation is written on every contour line
Elevation – the height of an object above sea level
How to Read Topographic Maps

5. If the contour lines are close together, then that indicates that area
has a steep
slope.
If the contour lines are far apart, then that indicates the land has a low slope.

6. Map 1 Color the elevations on the topographic maps.
Red: 50m and higher
Orange: 40-50m
Yellow: 30-40m
Light green: 20-30m
Dark green: 10-20m
Purple: 0-10m
Map 1

7. Map 2 Creating a topographic profile.
Use a ruler to plot all the dots where the trail crosses a contour line.
Connect the dots.
Map 2