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What is a River system.

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Rivers generally rise on slopes and are joined by a large number of other small rivers or streams. The entire area drained by a rivet and its tributaries is called a river system.

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संबंधित प्रश्न

What is the difference between the pattern of settlements in 0725 and the settlement of Idarla?


Give the six figure grid reference of Triangulated height 217


Name the left bank tributary of the main river.


Name the types of drainage pattern found in grid square 9374.


What is the compass direction of Antroli (9576) and Chelkha (9281) from Sangla?


Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:

    1. Give the six-figure grid reference for the temple that is located to the southwest of Pithapura settlement.  (1)
    2. Give the four-figure grid reference for a settlement where people of the region meet socially and for trade at least once in year. (1)
    1. What is the pattern of drainage seen in the grid square 2118? (1)
    2. What is the pattern of settlement seen in the grid square 1923? (1)
  1. What do each of the two numbers (281 printed in black colour and 20 printed in red colour) in the grid square 1818 indicate? (2)
    1. Name any two man-made features in grid square 2419. (1)
    2. Name any two natural features in grid square 2118. (1)
  2. What is the significance of the following?
    1. Fire line in grid square 2417. (1)
    2. Water body found in grid square 2221. (1)
  3. Calculate the area of the region between 16 and 19 Eastings and 18 and 22 Northings. Give your answer in square kilometers. (2)
  4. Give a reason for each of the following:
    1. The water in some of the wells in the north-west quarter of the map is not fit for drinking. (1)
    2. The region near Anadra and Gulabgani has many causeways. (1)
    1. What is the main means of irrigation used by people living in the area shown on the map? (1)
    2. What is the main occupation of the people of the region shown on the map? (1)
  5. Which, according to you, is the most important settlement?  Give a reason to support your answer. (2)
  6. Name any two means of transport used by the people living in the area shown on the map extract. (2)

What is a Watershed?


Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:

(a) Give the four figure grid reference of a settlement with
(i) Spot height 261 (ii) Post office.

(b) What is the difference in the pattern of drainage in grid square 1606 and in 1007?

(c) Name two natural features seen in grid square 0910.

(d) Calculate the distance in kilometers along the metalled road from the causeway East of Was to the distance stone 10.

(e) 
(i) Which is a universally accepted scale?
(ii) State the length of the given map in kilometers.

(f) Give the six figure grid reference of:
(i) A temple South of Dhavli settlement
(ii)    277.

(g) Which are the two different kind of roads shown in the map extract?

(h) Mention two main occupations shown on the map extract.

(i) How are the gentle and steep slopes shown on a map?

(j) What do the following mean?

(k) What is the direction of Dattani and Dhavli from Chandela?

(l) Name two man made features in grid square 1210.

(m) What do the words Motorable in dry season in grid square 1701 refer to?
What do they indicate about the rainfall received by the region shown in the map extract?


Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:

(a) Give the six figure grid reference of:
(i) The temple in village Dhavli
(ii) ∆ 480

(b) What do the following indicate?
(i) 6r in grid square 1903
(ii) The word Brackish in grid square 1403.

(c) 
(i) In grid square 1909, several contours merge at one point. What does this represent?
(ii) State the significance of the red dotted lines in the map extract.

(d) Name the type of rainfall experienced in the region shown in the map extract. Give a reason to support your answer.

(e) How does the drainage pattern in grid square 1606 differ from the drainage pattern in grid square 1708?

(f) 
(i) What is the pattern of settlement in grid square 1904?
(ii) Name the settlement that has a post office.

(g) Name two landforms represented by the pattern of contours in grid square 1608.

(h) Calculate the ground distance in kilometres along the metalled road between the causeway in 1502 and the distance stone marked ’14’ in grid square 1203.

(i) State two reasons for the absence of human habitation in the north eastern region of the map extract.

(j) 
(i) Mention the difference in height between the highest spot height in the map extract and the contour height in grid square 1006.
(ii) What is the compass direction of Patlawa ka Goliya (590.) from Kacholi Dunga (443.)?


Study the extract of the Survey of India Map Sheet No. 45 D/7 (A and B) and answer the following questions.

(a) Give the six figure grid reference of
(i) ∆ 277 (→) (ii) Lime kiln near Rampura (→) (iii) Stony waste (→).

(b) (i) What does the blue line in the Sipu river indicate?
(ii) In which village do you see the nodal function 7 What do you mean by this?

(c) (i) What does the black lines along the streams in the grid square 9199 indicate?
(ii) How are these features formed?
(iii) What type of region is shown in grid square 8696?

(d) Give the six-figure grid reference of the following:
(i) Lime Kiln near village Panswala.
(ii) Well with water near village Gonodara.
(iii) Dry tank near village Mohudi Moti.

(e) (i) What is the direction of the flow of Sipu river?
(ii) State why does it flow in this particular direction?

(f) Mention three natural features in the grid square 8998.
(g) 
(i) What is the meaning of the term open scrub printed on the map.
(ii) How do you get an idea of the general nature of the slope in this area?


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