This site was composed for two given purposes. ES111CC, instructed by Mrs. Susan Ward Aber, is the lab session for the Earth Science class, ES110C, at Emporia State University. Mrs. Aber offers a chance to her students for substituting a web site for one of the five tests from the ES111CC lab. ES111CC is the class that allows the students to experience knowledge beyond the classroom. Students, for instance, have an opportunity to see, touch, and identify the different types of rocks and minerals. The second purpose of this composing web site is to allow the students to expand their knowledge from the textbook to some extensive research. That is, in order to accomplish requirements for this composing web site, students must search for additional information in regard of the topic that they have chosen. This research includes, but not limit to, existing information in the internet, journals, or articles. Additionally, students are given an opportunity to learn the web site composing skill. Indeed, students have received significant learning experiences from this opportunity.
        This web site is about topographic maps. Topographic map is, in general, a map that shows detail of landscape. Topographic maps are unique and have distinct characteristics.They reveal elevation of the landscape in addition to the detail on the land surface, among many other important aspects. Contour lines, lines that connect points of land at the same elevation, allow the map reader to understand a better detail of geographical aspects of a certain place.