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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Beverly Hills Quadrangle






1.What is the name of the quadrangle?
                        Beverly Hills Quadrangle

2. What are the names of the adjacent quadrangles?
Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga,  Hollywood, Venice, Inglewood

      3.When was the quadrangle first created?
1966
      4. What datum was used to create your map?
                              National Geodetic Vertical Datum
      5. What is the scale of the map?
1:24,000
6. At the above scale, answer the following:
 a) 5 centimeters on the map is equivalent to how many meters on the ground?
                1200 meters
 b) 5 inches on the map is equivalent to how many miles on the ground?
                1.89 miles
 c) one mile on the ground is equivalent to how many inches on the map?
                2.64 inch
 d) three kilometers on the ground is equivalent to how many centimeters on the map?
                12.5 centimeters
7. What is the contour interval on your map?
                20 feet
8. What are the approximate geographic coordinates in both degrees/minutes/seconds and decimal degrees of:
 a) the Public Affairs Building;
                34o 4’ 30” N Lat,  118o 24’ 30” W Long
 b) the tip of Santa Monica pier;
                34o 00’ 30” N Lat, 1180 29’ 45” W Long
 c) the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir;
                34o 07’ 27” N Lat, 118o 24’ 30” W Long
9. What is the approximate elevation in both feet and meters of:
 a) Greystone Mansion (in Greystone Park);
                580ft; 176.8m
 b) Woodlawn Cemetery;
                140ft; 42.7m
 c) Crestwood Hills Park;
                620ft; 189.0m
10. What is the UTM zone of the map?
                Zone 11
11. What are the UTM coordinates for the lower left corner of your map?
                361500 mE, 3763000 mN
12. How many square meters are contained within each cell (square) of the UTM gridlines?
                1x106 m2

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14. What is the magnetic declination of the map?
                140
15. In which direction does water flow in the intermittent stream between the 405 freeway and Stone Canyon Reservoir?
                The water flow is South
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