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Question
What are ‘Eastings’ and ‘Northings’?
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Solution
The position of a certain feature on the sheets is indicated eastward and southward. The eastward lines of the grid are known as Northings. The northward lines of the grid are known as Eastings. These have been named Eastings and Northings because they indicate distances eastward and northward respectively from the point of origin.
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Give the six figure grid reference of Triangulated height 217
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)
What is a Flat land?
Describe the importance of colours on the toposheet?
What is a Fire line?
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.
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) Triangulated height 217
(ii) A lined well near Chekhla.
(b)
(i) Name the left bank tributary of the main river.
(ii) State the direction in which this left bank tributary is flowing.
(c)
(i) Mention a special feature associated with the streams in grid square 9879.
(ii) Name the types of drainage pattern found in grid square 9382.
(d) Give the four grid reference of each of the following:
(i) Open scrub
(ii) Bantawada.
(e) Name two relief features that can be seen in grid square 9782 and 9574.
(f) Why do you find limited cultivation in the map extract?
(g) What is the compass direction of Antroli (9576) and Chekhla (9281) from Sangla?
(h) What type of rainfall is experienced in the region shown in the map extract? Justify your answer giving one reason.
(i) Calculate the distance in kilometres along the cart track between Chitrasani (999747) and Pirojpura (978753).
(j)
(i) What is the geographical name that you would give to the general pattern of settlements in the region shown on the map?
(ii) Name one region shown on the map which is unsuitable for the cultivation of crops.
Study the extract of Survey of India Map Sheet No. 45D/7 and answer the following questions.
(a) What do you understand by Eastings and Northings?
(b) Give the meaning of each of the following conventional symbols located in the grid square 1622.
(i) 20r (ii) PO
(c) What is the general direction of flow of the Sipu Nadi, given in the map extract? Give one reason to support your answer.
(d) Give the six-figure grid reference of:
(i) The point where the canal leaves the earth work, dam market 10r.
(ii) The spot height 1425 in the South-east corner of the map extract.
(e) Andhra is a better developed settlement than Gulabganj. Give two reasons.
(f) Account for the necessity of ‘fireline’ in the jungle area of the given map extract.
(g)
(i) What main purpose is solved by most of the wells in grid square 1621?
(ii) Why is the water in some of these wells not suitable for drinking?
(h) Name two probable occupations of the people in the settlement of Tokra in squares 2220 and 2221.
(i) What is the total length of canal in metres?
(j) Give the angular distance of the temple in Pithapura in 2022 from Bhumi Margi hill top.
Identify the survey sheet of your city. Make a list of the important features both man-made and natural.
