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![Contour Line Example](images/module4/aaMaps_M4_02G.gif)
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Topographic maps use contour lines to indicate the shape and elevation of these landscape features because it is difficult, as we have already discovered, to show three-dimensional objects, like hills and valleys, on a two-dimensional surface, like a map. Contour lines are lines that connect the location of equal measures of elevation.
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