Maps : Meaning and Types — Geography STD 11 Arts — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 ArtsGeographyMaps : Meaning and Types5 Marks
Question
What is a standard? Explain his needs.
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Answer
When the earth's surface or any part of it is surrounded on a flat surface medium, its size becomes smaller.
The earth's surface or region shrinks or condenses.
The extent to which this contraction occurred has to be shown on the map.
Which is called measurement.
In the terminology of a map, the ratio of the comparative distance between any two specific points in the region shown on the map and the actual distance between the same two points or locations of that region on the ground is called the scale of the map.
There are three different methods of showing proportions on a map.
These include graphical or linear scales in addition to the representation method or lexical method, representative fraction or number system.
Any of the places shown on the map can be found by measuring the distance between two places and the area of the region.
Maps cannot be drawn without measurements, so measurements are an important part of the map.
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