The Beverley Hills Map Study

1)      What is the name of the quadrangle?

It is the Beverly Hills quadrangle.

2)      What are the names of the adjacent quadrangles?

There are Canoga Park, Van Nuys, Burbank, Topanga, Hollywood, Venice, and Inglewood.

3)      When the quadrangle was first created?

This quadrangle is first created in 1966.

4)      What datum is used to create your map?

There are North America Datum of 1927, North America Datum of 1983, and National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.

5)      What is the Scale of the map?

The unit less scale is 1:24000, which in units of cm, 1(cm):24000(cm), 1cm on the map is 240 meters on earth. And 1(inch):24000(inches), 1 inch on the map is 2000 feet on earth, also is 0.38 miles on the ground.

6)      A. 5 cm on the map is 1200 meters on the ground.

                B. 5 inches on the map is 1.89 miles on the ground.
         

                C. one mile on the ground is 2.64 inches on the map.   

                D. three kilometers (3000meters=300000cm) is 12.5 cm on the map.

7)      What is the contour interval on your map?

          The contour interval is 20 on the map.

8)      A. 118 degree 26 minutes 15 seconds, 118.4375 degree east longitude,  34 degree 4 minutes 50 seconds, 34.0806 degree latitude. 

                B. 118 degree 30 minutes 5 seconds, 118.5013 degree east longitude, 34 degree 0 minutes 30 seconds, 34.0083 degree north latitude .

                C. 118 degree 24 minutes 0 seconds, 118.4000 degree east longitude, 34 degree 7 minutes 00 seconds, 34.1167 degree north latitude.

9)      What is the approximation  elevation in both feet and meters of:

A.      About 560 feet, 170.688 meters

B.      About 160 feet,  50 meters

C.      About 600 feet,  183 meters

10)   What is the UTM zone of the map 

                It is zone 11

11)     What is the UTM coordinates for the lower left corner

                      3763 North, 3762East

1   12) How Many square meters are contained within each square of UTM gridline.

About 1000000 meters square

1  13)    Obtain Elevation measurements, from west to east

Elevation for every 500 meters (feet)	UTM east coordinates
500	362000
600	363000
600	364000
500	365000
480	Beginning of UCLA East Campus
480	366000
460	367000
440	End of UCLA at east campus
420	368000
350	369000
300	370000
250	371000
190	372000

    14)  The declination is 14 degree east.

    15)The water flows from North to South
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