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प्रश्न
Give the meanings of the important terms used in toposheets.
उत्तर
Open Scrub: It is the land where nothing grows. It is a sign of desert area. It indicates occupation as sheep or goat rearing.
Rock Outcrop: It is an exposed part of rock. Cultivation is not possible.
Sheet Rock: It is a mass or slab of rock, a portion of which is exposed above the surface. Shown in white it is also printed so.
Fire Line: A clearing is made in the forest to check the spread of fire.
Causeway: Causeway is a raised road or platform across a minor stream (not to be confused with a bridge). Its presence indicates areas of scanty or seasonal rainfall. Stream having causeway is motorable during dry season.
Broken Ground: It is the weathered part of the land caused due to erosion during heavy rain at the time of flooding. It is found mostly in dry regions around streams and rivers. On toposheet it is shown by tiny curved black line.
Aqueduct: It is a channel through which water flows.
Quarry: It is a pit from which limestone, marble, rock, sand or clay is obtained for building or other purposes.
Lime Kiln: It is a plant for manufacturing lime. Lime is used for making mortar which is used in holding bricks together.
Dry Well: The word ‘dry’ written in brackets near a well denotes a well that is dry in the dry season.
Brackish Well: The word ‘brackish’ written in brackets near a well means that the water in the well has a high salt content and is not fit for drinking. May be used for irrigation.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How does the feature, indicated by the black curves in 0721, show that rainfall in this region is seasonal?
What are the following?
302 in grid square 0425
Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:
(a) (i) Give the six-figure grid reference for the temple that is located to the south west of Pithapura settlement. (1)
(ii) 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)
(b) (i) What is the pattern of drainage seen in the grid square 2118? (1)
(ii) What is the pattern of settlement seen in the grid square 1923?(1)
(c) 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)
(d) (i) Name any two man-made features in grid square 2419. (1)
(ii) Name any two natural features in grid square 2118. (1)
(e) What is the significance of the following?
(i) Fire line in grid square 2417. (1)
(ii) Water body found in grid square 2221. (1)
(f) Calculate the area of the region between 16 and 19 Eastings and 18 and 22 Northings. Give your answer in kilometre square. (2)
(g) Give a reason for each of the following:
(i) The water in some of the wells in the north west quarter of the map is not fit for drinking. (1)
(ii) The region near Anadra and Gulabgani has many causeways. (1)
(h) (i) What is the main means of irrigation used by people living in the area shown on the map? (1)
(ii) What is the main occupation of the people of the region shown on the map? (1)
(i) Which according to you is the most important settlement? Give a reason to support your answer. (2)
(j) Name any two means of transport used by the people living in the area shown on the map extract. (2)
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.
(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?
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 brick kiln
(ii) the temple near Asav.
(b) What is the difference in the pattern of drainage in grid square 0916 and in 0712?
(c) Give the four figure grid reference of each of the following:
(i) Stony waste
(ii) Open scrub.
(d) Calculate the distance in kilometres along the metalled road between the causeways in grid square 0512 and 0808.
(e) (i) What do the tiny curved black lines in grid square 0315 indicate?
(ii) What is the main cause for this feature?
(f) (i) What is the geographical name that you would give to the general pattern of settlements in the region shown on the map?
(ii) Give a reason for your answer.
(g) What is the general direction of flow of the Sipu Nadi, given in the map extract? Give a reason to support your answer.
(h) Name two probable occupations of the people in the settlement of Revdar in grid square 0313 and 0413.
(i) What kind of roads connect (i) Marol with Mitan and (ii) Revdar with Karaunti respectively?
(j) Give two reasons to show that the area depicted in the map experiences seasonal rainfall.
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) What is the compass direction of Sunset Point from the settlement of Anadra?
(b) What is the pattern of drainage in grid square 2315?
(c) Mention any two features seen in the map extract which indicate that the region has seasonal rainfall.
(d) 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.
(e) What advantage does a Representative Fraction have over a verbal scale?
(f) Give the six figure grid reference of:
(i) Anjini Devi ka Mandir
(ii) D 1327.
(g) Name the three different kinds of roads in grid square 2411 and the one in grid square 2515.
(h) Mention two occupations of the people living in the northern part of the region in the map extract. Give reasons to support your answer.
(i) What is the difference between the slope in grid square 2115 and the one in 1811. Give a reason for your answer.
(j) What is the purpose of:
(i) the fireline in grid square 2316.
(ii) the pipeline in grid square 2209?
(k) What do the following represent?
(i) The red square in grid square 2514.
(ii) 4r in grid square 1612,
(l) Abu is a popular holiday resort. Mention any three features seen in the map extract which attract holiday makers to Abu.
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.
