WETMAAP Skill 1
La Parguera, Puerto Rico - Element 2
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Skill 1: Map Use
Element 2: Feature Identification
Materials:
1:20,000 scale 1966 Parguera, Puerto Rico, USGS Topographic Quadrangle
2004 La Parguera Aerial Photograph
magnifying glass
Exercise:
1. Use the 1:20,000 scale 1966 Parguera, Puerto Rico, USGS Topographic Quadrangle.
2. Use the 2004 La Parguera Aerial Photograph covering the same area.
3. Use the Topographic Symbols Chart.
a. What does the color blue represent?
b. What does the color green represent?
c. What does the color black represent?
4. Identify the following cultural and natural features on the map:
a. benchmark
b. pier
c. secondary highway
5. On the 2004 La Parguera aerial photograph find:
a. Colinas de la Parguera
b. Upland forest
c. Cloud shadows
d. Mangroves
e. Woodland vegetation
6. Identify any changes of features between the 1966 topographic map and the 2004 aerial photograph.
7. What is the highest elevation that you can identify on the topographic map?
__________________________________8. Determine the distance in meters from the reef on the western end of Arrecife Media Luna to the point where Highway 304 ends at the bay:
a. Using the edge of a paper, make the measurement and determine the distance in meters.
________________________b. Repeat the measurement using string.
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