This will be your sight. The next steps apply to using your clinometer to take slope readings. With your partners, select three sloped areas around the school ground to measure. The sighting partner needs to hold the clinometer very steady. The third partner reads and records the position of the string as it crosses the scale.
Partners switch positions and allow all members of the group to measure the same object.
List and explain some of the factors that will affect the accuracy of your clinometer. What pieces of equipment could you add to your clinometer and its use that would increase the accuracy of this device. The entry ramp at your local supermarket Erosion in a plowed farm field Building a railroad 2.