Question

You have drawn a cross sectional profile from a topographic map. Your vertical scale is 1cm represents 100m in the real world and your horizontal scale is 1cm represents 0.75km in the real world. What is the Vertical Exaggeration?

Question 19 options:

	a) 7.5
	b) 750
	c) 1.33
	d) 0.75

Answer 1

1 km = 1000 m

The Vertical Exaggeration is given by

VE =(Real World units of Horizontal scale)/(Real World units of Vertical Scale)

VE = (0.75*1000)/100

VE = 7.5

Therefore Answer is a)7.5