GEO7 PANQIAN XU: lab 2

LAB 2

PANQIAN XU

1. What is the name of the quadrangle?

Beverly Hills, CA 1995 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?

Horizontal datum: North American datum of 1927 and 1983

Vertical datum: National geodetic vertical datum of 1929

5. What is the scale of the map?

1:24000

6. At the above scale, answer the following:

a) 5 centimeters on the map is equivalent to how many meters on the ground?

5*24000/100=1200meters

b) 5 inches on the map is equivalent to how many miles on the ground?

5*2.54*24000* 0.0000062137=1.8937mile

c) one mile on the ground is equivalent to how many inches on the map?

1mile= 1 609.344meters=160934.4cm, 160934.4/24000=6.7056cm=2.615184inches

d) three kilometers on the ground is equivalent to how many centimeters on the map?

3km=3000m=300000cm, 300000/24000=12.5cm

7.What is the contour interval on your map?

20feets

8. What are the approximate geographic coordinates in both degrees/minutes/seconds and decimal degrees of:

a) the Public Affairs Building

North: 34degree 4 minute 16second=34.07

East: 118 degree,26minute 34 second=118.44

b) the tip of Santa Monica pier;

34 degrees 4minutes 30seconds North=34.075

118degrees 26minutes 30seconds West=118.44

c) the Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir;

West: 118 degrees 24 minutes 40 seconds 118.41 degrees

North: 34 degrees 6 minutes 30 seconds 34.11 degrees

9. What is the approximate elevation in both feet and meters of:

a) Greystone Mansion (in Greystone Park);

570feets=0.3048*570meters=173.736meters

b) Woodlawn Cemetery;

140feets=42.672meters

c) Crestwood Hills Park;

750feets=228.6meters

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?

3763000meters northing

361500meters easting

12. How many square meters are contained within each cell (square) of the UTM gridlines?

1,000,000 square meters

13. Obtain elevation measurements, from west to east along the UTM northing 3771000, where the eastings of the UTM grid intersect the northing. Create an elevation profile using these measurements in Excel (hint: create a line chart). Figure out how to label the elevation values to the two measurements on campus. Insert your elevation profile as a graphic in your blog.