1. Topographic maps are highly useful to engineers and surveyors
True False

2. The applications that topographic maps are useful for are:
landform modeling positioning; providing a mapping base
all of the above none of the above

3. Longitude lines intersect.
True False

4. Latitude lines intersect.
True False

5. Latitude lines are always the same lengths; longitude lines are always different sizes.
True False

6. Which is the most common positioning grid in use worldwide.
Universal Transmercator Latitude and Longitude State Coordinate

7. Latitude and longitude can be defined everywhere on the Earth's surface.
True False

8. If you start at a point on the globe and follow one particular longitude line or latitude around the globe back to the point where you started, you will pass through 360 degrees of longitude or latitude.
True False

9. Marked longitude and latitude divisions for a 7.5' USGS topographic map are located every 2.5 minutes (30" equals 0.5'). 120" equals 2'
True False

10. Thinking on a global scale, where would topographic maps have sides that were nearly equal in length to the ends, at the:
Poles Tropic of Capricorn Equator

11. If you were in space and viewing the Earth from a stationary platform above the South Pole, what direction would the Earth appear to be turning?
Clockwise Counterclockwise Neither

12. Virginia City, Nevada lies between the longitude lines of:
105-120 degrees east 105-120 degrees west 120-135 degrees east 120-135 degrees west

13. Sixty minutes is to an hour as 15 degrees of latitude separation is to a:
Globe Map Circle Time Zone

14.If it is 12:00 noon in west Greenwich, what time is it on the opposite side of the Earth?
12:00 AM 11:00 AM 11:00 PM 12:00 PM

15. What else can affect where a time zone boundary is placed?
Political Boundaries Latitude Lines Neither Both

16. How many time zones are in the Continental U.S.?
four five six seven

17. The Earth rotates to the:
East West North South

18. Maps that cover bigger areas are usually more detailed than maps of smaller areas.
True False

19. On a contour map, the contours along a ridge point outward and form a "V" pattern while in ravines the pattern is reversed and points into the ravine.
True False

20. A contour map is a 3D model of a 2D surface.
True False