Contour Lines & Terrain Features

Contour lines provide a lot of information about different kinds of terrain features.  It's a bit of slim pickings for this, but here is what I could come up with.

Video tutorial links

The most recommended - This one gets off on a bit of a tangent, but hopefully it helps communicate how we come up with contour lines

Honorable Mention - It's not directly related to terrain features, but hopefully the process of seeing how to build this 3D map model will provide some clarification on what terrain features look like and how they translate into contour lines on a map.

Written resources

There were no written instructions I could find for how to interpret contour lines, but I did find an online slide presentation that helped.  Slides 29-34 are the most helpful.


Links

Home Page Orienting A Map Taking A Bearing
Measuring Distance Contour Lines & Terrain Features Practice & Quiz