Social Science [1 Marks Each] QUE - ANS

The Union territory of 'Daman' is situated to the south of Gujarat.

Karnataka state is situated to the north of Kerala.

Arunachal Pradesh is situated in the north-east of India.

Madhya Pradesh is situated to the east of Gujarat.

Himachal Pradesh is situated in the north of India.

Conventional signs are used in a map to show different physical and cultural details. Such symbols are called 'conventional signs'.

The Tropic of Cancer passes almost through the central part of India.

The Bay of Bengal is located to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west of India.

Himalayan range is situated to the north of India.

India is located in north-east hemisphere of the earth.

Maps are prepared using direction, scale, conventional signs and different colours.

Brown colour is used to show landforms, blue for water bodies, green for vegetation, black for railway routes, red for land routes, and yellow for agricultural details.

The actual distance between any two places in the map can be known with the help of a scale used in the map.

Definite alphabet, light arid shadow, colours, pictures and lines are used to show conventional signs in map.

A scale is the ratio between the distance between two points on map arid the actual distance between the same two points on the surface of the earth.

If you stand facing the rising sun, north direction will be on your left side and south direction will be on your right side.

After knowing the North direction of the map, other directions are known automatically.

Maps giving details about the industrial stages, phasewise history of industrial development, production, etc. are known as ‘Industrial maps’.

Maps showing manmade details are known as ‘Cultural maps’. Various human activities are shown in these maps.

Maps giving information about celestial bodies like planets, satellites, milky way (galaxies), constellations, etc. are known as ‘Astronomical maps’.

Maps depicting the information of natural elements are called ‘Physical maps’. Physical features such as mountains, plateaus, plains, rivers, oceans, etc. are shown in these maps.

A collection of maps showing various details of the earth or a large part of it is called an ‘Atlas’. It contains a detailed information about political, administrative, physical (natural) and cultural elements.

A map is a representation of the earth’s surface or a part of it on a plain paper. Most information about any large area can be included in a map.

The word ‘Map’ is derived from the Latin word ‘Mappa Mundi’. It means a small piece of cloth ‘which can be kept in the hand’.