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Areas of equal elevation are connected by _______ lines on a topographic map.

meridian


longitude


contour


latitude

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Answer:

Contour

Step-by-step explanation:

These are just lines that follow the points on the map that contain the same elevation, and are not the lines that one sees drawn for finding particular locations on a projected flat surface of the Earth like meridians or parallels, that give us longitude and latitude of a place.

The topographic lines are actually trying to represent (give an image of) the third dimension (elevation) in a two dimensional chart.