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- LAND NAVIGATION
- LAND NAVIGATION
- What are the basic colors of a map and what do they stand for?
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Blue-water and water features
Red-roads
Black-man made objects
Green-vegetation
Brown-contour lines, elevation and relief. - What are military symbols?
- Figures used to represent types of military organizations, installations and activities.
- What is meant by declination?
- The angular distance between true north and either magnetic north or grid north.
- What is vertical distance?
- The distance between the highest and lowest points measured.
- If a map is to be effective, what information is consulted?
- Marginal data.
- Where is the Legend of a map found?
- Lower Left Margin.
- How is a lensatic compass held?
- Level, firm and away from metal such as weapons and electrical devices.
- What is the basic rule for readin coordinates off a map?
- Read right and up from the left hand corner.
- How close does an eight-digit grid coordinate locate a point?
- To the nearest ten meters.
- What does the graphic scale tell you?
- It is the rule by which map distances can be measured as actual ground distance.
- Which North is used when using a military map?
- Magnetic north when using a compass, and grid north when using the map.
- What is the name of the map system that the u.s uses?
- Universal Traverse Mercator grid system.
- What are the three tpes of conrour lines?
- Index, intermediate and supplementary.
- What is a contour interval?
- The vertical distance between contour lines.