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6. Give reasons:-
(a) The globes are better than a flat map.
(b) Most of the lumberjacks camps are located near the river banks. Why?
(c) The rivers play an important role in North America.
7. Answer in short:-
(a) What does ‘hauling’ refer to?
(b) Mention three types of scale.
(c) Mention three importance of plains.
(d) What are intermontane plateau?
(e) Mention three basic steps involved in lumbering activities.
8. Answer in detail:-
(a) Write the characteristics of the Prairies.
(b) What do you mean by a valley? Discuss its characteristics.
(c) Maps are developed to sort out the shortcomings of a globe. Explain.
(d) What is a mountain? How mountains play an important role in our life?
(e) Draw conventional symbols for – canal, lightship, village trijunction, international
boundary.
Answers
Answer:
question 6
(a) Globes are more accurate than maps for measuring the Earth because globes are a three-dimensional representation of the world, which itself
(b)sorry i dont know this
(c)River and lakes are abundant in North America and they are of great importance. It provides the water for both the industrial as well as agricultural purpose near and around the rivers and lakes. It also plays an important role in regulating the quality of water and in the water cycle process.
Question 7
(a)the activity of transporting goods by truck
(b)Valleys are depressed areas of land–scoured and washed out by the conspiring forces of gravity, water, and ice. Some hang; others are hollow. ... Mountain valleys, for example, tend to have near-vertical walls and a narrow channel, but out on the plains, the slopes are shallow and the channel is wide.
(c)1)they are way too big for carry around. 2)they are not well detailed like a paper map. 3) distance and positions are often distorted during the map projection on these globes.
(d)Plateaus surrounded by mountain ranges are called intermontane plateaus.
(e)Lumbering has four phases: logging, driving, manufacturing, and transport. The details varied depending on whether a homesteader was carving a farm out of a forest, an independent logger was felling and selling logs to a mill, or a commercial mill handled the entire process from logging through sales.
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Answer:
a answer A globe is more accurate than a flat map as it shows the true shape of the earth's surface. It also represents accurate distance between landmasses .