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| What is a representative fraction? |
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| The fraction on the map scale that shows what part of the true distances the map distances really are. |
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| What is special about depression contours? |
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| The first depression contour is read at the same elevation of the contour line it is next to. |
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| A location whose exact elevation is known and marked. |
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| What are spot elevations? |
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| Elevations of points of special interest. |
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| What is the magnetic declination? |
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| The difference in the angle between true north and magnetic north. |
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| The farther apart the contour lines the ________ the land. |
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| How do contour lines act arpund rivers? |
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| The V upstream( the point of the V points upstream) |
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