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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ARMY LAND NAV EXAM
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Question 1: What is a large-scale map?
Answer:
Those maps with scales of 1:75,000 and larger are used for tactical, administrative, and logistical planning. These are the maps that you as a soldier or junior leader are most likely to encounter.
Question 2: What is an aerial photograph?
Answer:
An aerial photograph is any photograph taken from an airborne vehicle (aircraft, drones, balloons, satellites, and so forth)
Question 3: What does the term FLOT mean?
Answer:
Forward Line Of Troops
Question 4: How many mils are there in a circle?
Answer:
6400 mils in 360 degrees
Question 5: You must find at least how many known locations on a map and the actual ground in order to plot your location accurately?
Answer:
At least 2
Question 6: Why is a map so important?
Answer:
When used correctly, a map can give you accurate distances, locations and heights, best routes key terrain features and cover and concealment information.Question 7: In military symbols, what colors are used for a map overlay and what do they represent?
Answer:
Blue- Friendly forces Red-Enemy forces Black- boundaries Yellow-contaminated area both friendly and enemy Green- engineer obstacles, both friendly and enemy
Question 8: What is vertical distance?
Answer:
The vertical distance between adjacent contour lines on a map
Question 9: What are military symbols?
Answer:
Figures used to represent types of military organizations, installations, and activities
Question 10: How would you hold a lensatic compass?
Answer:
Away from metal (weapons, electrical devices), level and firm
Question 11: How do you figure out a back azimuth?
Answer:
To obtain a back azimuth from an azimuth, add 180 degrees if the azimuth is 180 degrees or less; subtract 180 degrees if the azimuth is 180 degrees or more
Question 12: What is the distance between grid lines on a combat map?
Answer:
- kilometer or 1000 meters
Question 13: How many times would the bezel ring click if it were fully rotated?
Answer:
120
Question 14: Are topographic symbols drawn to scale?
Answer:
NO
Question 15: What are parallels of latitude?
Answer:
Measured distances going north or south of the equator
Question 16: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a draw?
Answer:
The contour lines depicting a draw are U-shaped or V-shaped, pointing toward high ground
Question 17: What does UTM stand for?
Answer:
Universal Transverse Mercator
Question 18: What is a declination diagram?
Answer:
Shows the angular relationship between the magnetic north, grid north and true north
Question 19: What is Back Azimuth?
Answer:
opposite direction of an azimuth.
Question 20: What are the 2 supplementary terrain features found on a military map?
Answer:
Cut Fill
Question 21: What is the name of the map system that the U.S. uses?
Answer:
UTM
Question 22: What is a medium-scale map?
Answer:
Those maps with scales larger than 1:1,000,000 but smaller than 1:75,000 are used for operational planning. They contain a moderate amount of detail, but terrain analysis is best done with the large-scale maps described below.
Question 23: What shape are the contour lines that indicate a cut?
Answer:
This contour line extends the length of the cut and has tick marks that extend from the cut line to the roadbed, if the map scale permits this level of detail.
Question 24: What are 3 types of contour lines?
Answer:
Index Intermediate Supplementary
Question 25: What are the alternate colors on a map and what do they mean?
Answer:
Gray- alternate color for brown, Yellow- built up areas, and Pink- political boundaries
Question 26: What is an azimuth?
Answer:
A horizontal angle, measured in a clockwise manner from a north base line, expressing direction.Question 27: What are the three elements for a land navigation process known as Dead Reckoning?
Answer:
- Known starting point
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