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D. Answer the following questions briefly.
What are topographical maps?
2. What is a contour line?
3. Explain why colours are used in topographical maps.
4. Name the features shown in blue, green and brown colours on a map.
5. How would you recognize a metalled road and an unmetalled one on a topographical
6. What do you understand by settlements?
Ristinguish between a temporary settlement and a permanent settlement.
Answers
1. Topographic maps are a detailed record of a land area, giving geographic positions and elevations for both natural and man-made features.
2. Contour line is a line on a map joining points of equal height above or below sea level.
3. Topographic maps use different colors to represent area features.
4. Blue for rivers, lakes, or other bodies of water
Green for vegetation or national parks and wildlife management areas
Brown to denote contour lines on a map
5. A metalled road indicates that the region is developed. Unmetalled roads (or Kutcha roads) are shown by a set of broken parallel lines in red on the map. They indicate that the area is underdeveloped.
6. A settlement is a colony or any small community of people.
Settlements that are occupied for a short time are called temporary settlements, while in permanent settlement, people build home to live in and occupy them for a longer period of time.
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Answer:The colors of the lines usually indicate similar classes of information: topographic contours (brown); lakes, streams, irrigation ditches, and other hydrographic features (blue); land grids and important roads (red); and other roads and trails, railroads, boundaries, and other cultural features (black).
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