Lab 2: USGS Topographic maps

  1. The name of the quadrangle is the Beverly Hills Quadrangle

  2. The names of the adjacent quadrangles are

                  (1) Canoga Park

(2) Van Nuys

            (3) Burbank

(4) Topanga

(5) Hollywood

(7) Venice

(8) Inglewood

  3. The quadrangle was first created in 1995. (Course website topographic map)

  4. The datum used was the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929

  5. The scale of the map is 1:24,000 (inches)

  6. A. 5 centimeters on the map approximately equals 1200 meters

B. 5 inches equals approximately 1.89 miles on the ground.

C. One mile on the ground equals about 2.64 inches.

D. Three kilometers on the ground equals about 12.5 inches

  7. The contour interval on my map is 20 feet

  8.  The approximate geographic coordinates in both degrees/minutes/seconds and decimal degrees

            A. Public Affairs Building (34° 4’ 31” North; 118° 26’ 11” West; N 34.07527, 118.4363 W)

            B. Tip of Santa Monica Pier (34° 0’ 32” North; 118° 0’ 30” West; N 34.008, 118.0083 W)

            C. Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir (34° 7’ 15” North; 118° 24’ 30”; 34.12083 N, 118.408

  9. The elevations of these places in feet and meters

            A. Greystone Mansion – 580 feet, 176.784 meters

            B. Woodlawn Cemetery – 131 feet, 39.928 meters

            C. Crestwood Hills Park – 698 feet, 212.7504 meters

  10. The UTM zone is 11

  11. The UTM coordinates for the lower left corner of this map are 3763000 mN and 3615000 mE

  12. Each square cell of the UTM guidelines is 1,000,000 meters

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  14. The magnetic declination is 14 degrees east

  15. The direction of the water flow in the intermittent stream between the 405 and Stone Canyon Reservoir is North to South

  16. UCLA