Exercises
A. Give short answers,
1. What is a map?
a. What are political and plivalcal maps?
3. What is the north line?
4. What information do you need to locate a place with respect to another?
5. What is the use of the key in a map?
6. What is a diagram?
Answers
Answer:
1. Answer the following questions briefly:
(a) What are the three components of a map?
(b) What are the four cardinal directions?
(c) What do you mean by the term ‘the scale of the map’?
(d) How are maps more helpful than a globe?
(e) Distinguish between a map and a plan.
(f) Which map provides detailed information?
(g) How do symbols help in reading map?
Answers:
(a) The three components of a map are—distance, direction and symbol.
(b) The four cardinal directions are—North, South, East and West.
(c) The term ‘the scale of the map’ means the ratio between the actual distance on the ground and the distance shown on the map.
(d) Maps provide more information than a globe. A globe can be useful when we want to study the earth as a whole. But when we want to study only a part of the earth, as about a country or a state, globe is of little help. In such a situation only maps are useful.
(e) Differences between a map and a plan.
NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Social Science Geography Chapter 4 Maps Q1
(f) Large scale maps provide detailed information because of the following reasons.
Large scale maps are drawn on big-sized papers.
Maps are of very large size. They have more space to depict more information.
(g) With the use of symbols maps are more informative and easier to read because of the following reasons:
The symbols are of the features in true form.
Language does not put any problem in understanding the feature.
Even the less educated can und
Answer:
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Explanation:
1)a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
3)north lines in the geography are the lines which are extended from. from north to the south. these are all imaginary lines used for locating the places