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25 Questions

1. What is a 'catching feature' used for?

2. What is meant by a 'base line'?

3. The ground distance covered by one degree of longitude at the equator is about how many miles, and one second is equal to about how many feet?

4. Where is the sheet number found on a military map?

5. What is a G/VLLD?

6. What is a 'pace count'?

7. What is a valley?

8. The four lines (borders) that enclose the body of a map are knowna s what and are actually lines of latitude at the poles (where the lines converge).

9. Military vehicles are designed to climb what percentage of slopes on a dry, firm surface

10. What is the Graphic (Bar) Scale on a map used for?

11. What is a ridge?

12. How do you determine the elevation of a hilltop?

13. What is METT-TC?

14. What is a spur?

15. Identify the following types of slopes: 1. Contour lines widely spaced at the top and closely spaced at the bottom 2. Contour lines evenly spaced and wide apart 3. Contour lines closely spaced at the top and widely spaced at the bottom 4. Contour lines evenly spaced, but close together

16. Where does a map get its name and where is the 'sheet name' located?

17. What is the difference between a two-dimensional and three-dimensional fix?

18. What is meant by a 'false northing'

19. What is the declination diagram and where is it located?

20. UTM grid zones are numbered from west to east (in columns), 1 through 60, starting at the 180 degree meridian. Grid Zones are further designated by letters, from south to north ,to identify the row. What letters are used?

21. On what two grid systems are the military grid reference system (MGRS) based on and when are they used?

22. What is a DAGR?

23. What is the back azimuth of 270 degrees?

24. Considering that the compass-to-cheek method gives greater accuracy, when would you want to use the centerhold method?

25. Most people ahve at least two pace counts. What are they?

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