Naturalistic Intelligence LVL5

One of the challenges in this activity is to understand what is meant by contours.
Contours on a map are lines that show areas of the same height. Even with this information,
it can be difficult for the students to imagine the terrain,
by simply looking at a map and mentally processing the numbers.
In this situation,
the students can learn a lot by generating a profile of the ocean floor using the
“cross section” method.

If you want to do this first you need to draw a set of axes.
Let the x-axis represent the horizontal distance and the y-axis vertical elevation.
The scale used for the axes must be the same as that used on the map, that is,
1 centimetre represents 10 kilometres on the horizontal.
For the vertical scale, make 1 centimetre represent 1 000 metres.

Ocean floor contours, axes only:

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