Question

Observe the given figure and answer the following questions.

1. What is the general direction of the ranges shown in the map?
2. Towards which direction is the flat land located in the map?
3. What are the maximum and minimum values of the lines in the map?
4. What do these values indicate?
5. Do you find any similarities in the map and the model in Figure? What are those?
6. Which figure gives us more information and what is that information?
7. Is there any similarity between this map and the sketch map of the potato hill?
8. What all do you see in the map?

Answer 1

1. The general direction of the ranges shown in the map is east-west.
2. The flat land is located towards the south in the map.
3. The maximum and minimum values of the lines in the map are 600 metres and 800 meters respectively.
4. These values indicate the altitude of different places from the sea level.
5. We find similarities in the map and the model in Figure. The landforms that are shown by different colours in a model are shown by contour lines in the contour line map.
6. Figure (b) (contour line map) gives us more information than Figure (a) (A model of the earth's surface.) Contour line maps gives additional information of altitude of a particular place from sea level, the nature of slope and direction of the slope of a particular place.
7. There are many similarities between this map and the sketch map of the potato hill.
8. We can see the following things in the map : (i) Altitude of landforms
   (ii) Slopes of landforms
   (iii) Direction of slopes of landforms
   (iv) The spread of a particular landform in a particular region.