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Name the state that produces the largest amount of limestone.
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Rajasthan is the state that produces the largest amount of limestone.
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Name two relief features that can be seen in grid square 9782 and 9574.
Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:
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- Give the six-figure grid reference for the temple that is located to the southwest of Pithapura settlement. (1)
- 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)
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- What is the pattern of drainage seen in the grid square 2118? (1)
- What is the pattern of settlement seen in the grid square 1923? (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)
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- Name any two man-made features in grid square 2419. (1)
- Name any two natural features in grid square 2118. (1)
- What is the significance of the following?
- Fire line in grid square 2417. (1)
- Water body found in grid square 2221. (1)
- Calculate the area of the region between 16 and 19 Eastings and 18 and 22 Northings. Give your answer in square kilometers. (2)
- Give a reason for each of the following:
- The water in some of the wells in the north-west quarter of the map is not fit for drinking. (1)
- The region near Anadra and Gulabgani has many causeways. (1)
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- What is the main means of irrigation used by people living in the area shown on the map? (1)
- What is the main occupation of the people of the region shown on the map? (1)
- Which, according to you, is the most important settlement? Give a reason to support your answer. (2)
- Name any two means of transport used by the people living in the area shown on the map extract. (2)
How is the importance of settlement reflected in a map?
Which colours are used on toposheets? What is their significance?
What is Concave Slope and Convex Slope? Explain?
Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:
(a) Name and give the four figure grid reference of a settlement where the people of the region meet at least once a year.
(b) What does the conventional symbol at grid reference 145132 mean?
(c)
If a man were to walk from Gulabganj (1820) to Harmatiya (1916):
(i) In which direction would he be walking?
(ii) Which are the two different kinds of roads that he would be using?
(d)
What do the following numbers in grid square 1718 and 1818 mean?
(i) 280 (ii) 281
(e) What are the two differences between the settlement Bamba in 1914 and those in 1813?
(f) Name four facilities that Anadra has which makes it an important settlement
(g) What is the quickest means of communication for the people of Dabani (1313)?
(h) What do the following mean:
(i) Brackish in 1915 (ii) Causeway in 1715 (iii) 6r in 1218?
(i) Mention two factors which support the following:
(i) The Sipu river is in its middle course
(ii) The rainfall in the region shown in the map extract is seasonal.
(j) What is the distance in kilometres between the distance stone 20 in 1818 and the causeway in 1715 along the metalled road?
Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:
- What is the compass direction of Sunset Point from the settlement of Anadra?
- What is the pattern of drainage in grid square 2315?
- Mention any two features seen in the map extract which indicate that the region has seasonal rainfall.
- Calculate the distance, in kilometers, along the metalled road from the causeway in grid square 1715 to the distance stone marked 20 in grid square 1818.
- What advantage does a Representative Fraction have over a verbal scale?
- Give the six figure grid reference of:
- Anjini Devi ka Mandir
- D 1327.
- Name the three different kinds of roads in grid square 2411 and the one in grid square 2515.
- Mention two occupations of the people living in the northern part of the region in the map extract. Give reasons to support your answer.
- What is the difference between the slope in grid square 2115 and the one in 1811? Give a reason for your answer.
- What is the purpose of:
- the fireline in grid square 2316.
- the pipeline in grid square 2209?
- What do the following represent?
- The red square in grid square 2514.
- 4r in grid square 1612,
- Abu is a popular holiday resort. Mention any three features seen in the map extract which attract holidaymakers to Abu.
Answer the following questions on the Survey Sheet Number 45 D/7.
(a) Give six figure grid references of the following:
(i) ∆ 364 (ii) The temple at Rampura
(b) Mention any two features seen in the map extract which show that the region has seasonal rainfall
(c) Calculate the distance in kilometres along the cart-track linking Juvol (923826) and Amiwada (944817).
(d) Which is the chief form of irrigation shown in the map extract? Give an evidence to justify your answer.
(e) Give one reason to explain why the streams in grid square 9478 do not join a river. Identify another grid square in the map extract that has similar streams.
(f) What do the following represent:
(i) Black broken lines in 9575 (ii) Black curved lines in 9879.
(g) Identity two landforms shown by the contours in grid square 9876.
(h) (i) What is the general direction of the Balram Nadi?
(ii) Which bank of the main river does the Balram Nadi join?
(i) What is the main occupation of the people living in the area shown in the map extract? Give one reason to support your answer.
(j) What is meant by scale of a map? What is the scale of the map extract provided to you?
Study the extract for topographical sheet 63K/12 shown in the figure below and answer the following questions.
- Give the height of the highest point on the map.
- River Jamtihwa Nadi is flowing through which quarter of the map?
- Which is the major settlement located in the east of the Kuardari Nala?
- What type of settlement does the area have?
- Name the geographical feature represented by white patches in the middle of Sipu Nadi.
- Name the two types of vegetation shown on part of the topographical sheet.
- What is the direction of the flow of the Kuardari?
- In which part of the sheet area is Lower Khajuri Dam located?
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Part of the Topographical Sheet No 63K/12
Identify the survey sheet of your city. Make a list of the important features both man-made and natural.
