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Instruction: Endeavor to read through the content of the preceding slides (slides 1 to 4) before attempting these objective questions.

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4. Terms in this set•Continental relief can be plains, plateaus, mountains and depressions.•Plains are extensive areas of flat or gently undulating land. •Plateaus are elevated plains. •Mountains are very high areas of relief.

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4. Terms in this set•Continental relief can be plains, plateaus, mountains and depressions.•Plains are extensive areas of flat or gently undulating land. •Plateaus are elevated plains. •Mountains are very high areas of relief.

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Contour lines connect a series of points of equal elevation and are used to illustrate relief on a map.

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3. Techniques used to make relief maps include hachures, pictorial representations, contour lines, or combinations of these.

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3. Techniques used to make relief maps include hachures, pictorial representations, contour lines, or combinations of these.

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What is relief map used for?

Relief maps depict contours of landmarks and terrain, based on shape and height. They are made by cartographers, who collect geographic and demographic data and then translate that information into various map forms.
In the case of a relief map, the elevation data is colored to show changes in elevation. A typical way of color-coded elevation data is to display higher elevation values as lighter colors and lower elevations values as darker colours. The color contrast creates a shadow effect and gives the topographic map a realistic look. The hope is of course that the end user will easily be able to distinguish between mountains and valleys just by looking at the map. A globe with raised mountain ranges is also a type of relief map.

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A relief map is a map indicating hills and valleys by shading rather than by contour lines alone. It is also a map model with elevations and depressions representing hills and valleys, typically on an exaggerated relative scale.

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In this video we begin by looking at a topographic map of Pikes Peak in Colorado. I then build a clay model of a mountain and create cross sections representing different elevation layers. Using these layers we trace out the contour lines of the mountain to show how a three dimensional image of a landform can be mapped out on a topographic map.

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Topic:Relief map.
WALT: describe a relief map.
Relief" is essentially the opposite of "flatness". Relief is typically defined as the difference in height between the high point and the low point on a landscape, in feet or in meters. It could also be defined more qualitatively: like "low relief plains" or "high relief rolling hills". Sometimes we also differentiate a region of otherwise uniform relief by pointing out its elevation, relative to the surrounding regions.