Vertical Exaggeration needs to die :) (1 Viewer)

[hn92]

can somebody please explain to me vertical exaggeration??
and possibly give me a link to a question ?

its going to be my test & my stupid teacher hasnt xplained at all.
doing my head in lmao.

 

[alex09hsc]

I don't even do geography but the formula is

vertical scale/horizontal scale

You just need to look at the graphs and what each axis represents.

For example, the 2003 hsc paper included a question on vertical exaggeration.

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc_exams/hsc2003exams/pdf_doc/geography_03.pdf

16 a)Calculate the vertical exaggeration of the cross-section shown.

You can see that on the vertical hand side of the graph provided that each one centimetre represents 10 m

All you need to do then is find what each centimetre of the horizontal represents (would be a lot easier to calculate if I could find the stimulus booklet of the cross section for 2003)

anyways,


it would just be (1/10)/(1/what each cm reps)

which is (1/10)/(1/500) in this case

so the VE = 50

Vertical exaggeration is expressed through a number only, not through metres or cm, because it's measure the relative degree of scale of the map.

 

[hn92]

cheeeeers