(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

What is a River system.

What is a Fire line?

How is the importance of settlement reflected in a map?

What is a “Topographical Map”?

Convert the following scales into R.F.

What do you mean by ‘Marginal Information’?

Why are directions on a map important?

Calculate the average gradient along the two stations A and B, if the horizontal distance between them is 1,200 metres and the vertical difference in height is 240 metres.

What is a Watershed?

What are ‘Eastings’ and ‘Northings’?

 The area is measured by grid square method?

Which colours are used on toposheets? What is their significance?

What is a Nodal centre?

The distance is measured on the topographic map. There are two methods of measuring distance on the toposheets,

(i) Direct-method,

(ii) Indirect method.

Measuring straight distance is a direct method and measuring through a winding course is an indirect method. Explain both the methods.

 What is Concave Slope and Convex Slope? Explain?

(i) On a topographical map two stations A and B are situated at height of 500 metres and 100 metres respectively. If the horizontal distance between them is 2 km, calculate the gradient.
(ii) On a topographical map, two places A and B are given. Calculate the gradient between them.

(i) What is the importance of a Relief Map.

(ii) How can we show occupations by the evidences of names or by inference of relief features?

Name the various types of settlement patterns found on toposheet.

Give the meanings of the important terms used in toposheets.

Give a summary of dimension and scale of topographical maps.