WETMAAP Skill 1
Cape Hatteras: Element
Skill 1: Map Use
Element 2: Feature Identification
Materials:
1:24,000 scale Cape Hatteras-Buxton Topographic Quadrangle
Topographic Symbols Chart
1990 Aerial Photograph
magnifying glass
Exercise:
1. Use 1:24,000 scale Cape Hatteras-Buxton Topographic Quadrangle.
2. Use the 1990 Aerial Photograph covering the same area.
3. Use the Topographic Symbols Chart.
4. Identify a primary highway.
5. Identify a power line and a telephone line.
6. Identify any purple areas on the map.
7. Identify an elevation benchmark.
8. Identify an elevation contour.
9. What is the contour interval?
10. What is the highest elevation of land within the study area?
11. On the 1990 aerial photography, identify several of the same natural and cultural features that you recognized on the map.
12. Find the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on the 1990 aerial photograph.