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While viewing a topographic map, you notice a region in which the contour lines are very close together. What can you conclude about this region?

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Answer: It means it has a steep incline!

Step-by-step explanation:

Because contour lines join points of equal elevation and the closer together those lines are, the steeper the slope.

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Answer:that means there's a short distance between places with different elevations

Explanation:basically when the contours are closer that means that the slope is steep. The contour intervals tell the vertical distance between each line by counting the number of contours of neighboring lines and multiplying it with contour intervals we can calculate the elevation of any line

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