Transcript An Elevated View

An Elevated View- Answers
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1. What type of landform does this model represent?
(mountain, hill).
2. How many peaks are represented on this model?
(One.)
3. Observe your model from a side view, placing the Es to the
right and the Ws to the left. What do the Es represent?
What do the Ws represent?
(Es represent the East side of the peak and Ws represent West
side of the peak.)
4. What distance is greater between E1 to E4 and W1 to W4?
Why is this distance greater?
(W1 to W4. The West side is not as steep as the East side.)
5. Would it be easier to crawl up the east side or the west side?
(west side) Why? (less steep than east side)
From Model to Map
Should look something like this….
6. What does each layer represent?
(elevation levels/contour lines)
7. Where would you go to see sea level?
(ocean shoreline; where dry land and the sea meet;
Cutout 1.)
8. Is sea level always the same?
(no- changes with the tides)
9. Which layer of your map represents the highest
elevation?
(Cutout 4, the top layer)
10. Which layer represents the lowest elevation?
(Cutout 1, the bottom layer)
11. If the blue color represents water, what does
the white oval area represent?
(land)
12. What do we call the place on your map
where the water and the land meet?
(sea level)
13. If you are standing on the line that
represents sea level, what would be your
elevation?
(0 meters)
14. If you walked all the way around Cutout 1 staying
on the contour line, what happens to your
elevation?
(remains the same; stays at 0 meters)
15. What happens to your elevation if you move
toward the center?
(increases)
16. Would my elevation at the next contour line be
greater or less than 0 meters?
(greater than)
17. if I walked around this contour line would the
elevation be increasing or decreasing?
(it would stay the same)
18. What happens to our elevation as we move to the
next contour line?
(increases)
19. If I continue on to the next contour line, would the elevation
be increasing or decreasing?
(increasing)
20. Often on topographic maps there are some lines that are
not labeled. Imagine if our contour line for 4 meters was not
labeled. How would we determine what the elevation is on
that contour line?
(Determine it using the pattern of numbers from other lines)
21. Locate the steepest side of the landform on the cutout model
and the topographic map. How is the steepest side shown on
the topographic map of our model?
(The lines are closer together.)
22. Look at the gradual slope on the west side of the landform.
How is this represented on the topographic map of our
model?
(The lines are farther apart.)
23. How is the top of our model mountain represented on the
topographic map?
(The smallest cutout)
24.Observe the indentation on the northeast side of your model.
What do you think may have caused this area? How?
(Moving water. Erosion.)
25.What force causes rivers to flow downhill?
(gravity)
26. How is the indentation, which may have been caused by a
river, represented on the topographic map?
(V’s that point uphill.)
27.How do we know that the river doesn’t flow in the direction the
Vs are pointing?
(rivers do not flow uphill due to the force of gravity.)
28.Since it would be very difficult to measure the elevation of each
landform by hand, what 20th-century space technology has
allowed scientists to more easily view and measure the
topography of Earth’s crust?
(satellite images)
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