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Land Navigation / Map Reading: Question #

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Large cities on a map are represented by what color?

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Questions in this topic: Land Navigation / Map Reading

1 .: What is the Field Manual for map reading and land navigation?
2 .: What are the basic colors of a map, and what does each color represent?
3 .: What are military symbols?
4 .: Where is the Legend of the map found?
5 .: What are contour lines?
6 .: What are 3 types of contour lines?
7 .: How many Mils are in one Degree?
8 .: How many Norths are there on a military map?
9 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a hill?
10 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a saddle?
11 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a valley?
12 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a Ridge?
13 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a depression?
14 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a draw?
15 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a spur?
16 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a cliff?
17 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a cut?
18 .: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a fill?
19 .: What must be done to a map before it can be used?
20 .: What are 5 major terrain features found on a map?
21 .: What are the 3 minor terrain features found on a military map?
22 .: What are the 2 supplementary terrain features found on a military map?
23 .: What is a map?
24 .: What is an azimuth?
25 .: What is vertical distance?
26 .: What is a contour interval?
27 .: What is the distance between grid lines on a combat map?
28 .: How many mils are there in a circle?
29 .: Which north is used when using a military map?
30 .: How would you hold a lensatic compass?

31 .: Name two ways to hold a compass?
32 .: Are topographic symbols drawn to scale?
33 .: What do topographic symbols represent?
34 .: In military symbols, what colors are used for a map overlay and what do they represent?
35 .: What is Back Azimuth?
36 .: How do you figure out a back azimuth?
37 .: What is a declination diagram?
38 .: What is the general rule for reading military grid coordinates?
39 .: How many sights does a compass have?
40 .: What is a benchmark?
41 .: What are parallels of latitude?
42 .: What is an aerial photograph?
43 .: What does UTM stand for?
44 .: The lensatic compass has a bezel ring; each bezel ring click is equal to how many degrees?
45 .: How many times would the bezel ring click if it were fully rotated?
46 .: Large cities on a map are represented by what color?
47 .: Name two ways to orient a map?
48 .: What is the Field Manual for Operational Terms and Graphics?
49 .: The arrow on a compass always points what direction?
50 .: What does the term FLOT mean?
51 .: What are the alternate colors on a map and what do they mean?
52 .: What is longitude?
53 .: What s a topographic map?
54 .: What is a small-scale map?
55 .: What is a medium-scale map?
56 .: What is a large-scale map?
57 .: What does the term intersection mean?
58 .: Why is a map so important?
59 .: What does the term resection mean?
60 .: If you find a symbol on a map that is unknown to you, where would you look?

61 .: How many scales are there on a compass, what are they?
62 .: What are the 4 quadrants on a map?
63 .: What are the three elements for a land navigation process known as Dead Reckoning?
64 .: What is the feature that makes the lensatic compass work well at night?
65 .: What is a polar coordinate?
66 .: What is the name of the map system that the U.S. uses?
67 .: On a lensatic compass there are two rings, an outer black ring and an inner red ring, what are they used for?
68 .: Name 3 field expedient methods of determining direction
69 .: What is a contour level?
70 .: The border line around the edge of the map is called the what?
71 .: Name the different slopes found on a map.
72 .: You must find at least how many known locations on a map and the actual ground in order to plot your location accurately?
73 .: What are the three main map sizes?
74 .: What are two methods of measuring an azimuth?
75 .: How close will an eight-digit grid get you to your point?
76 .: How close will a six-digit grid coordinate get you to your point?
77 .: What would you use on a map to measure actual ground distance?

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