Class VI - Geography

Chapter - 4 Maps

A map can be defined as a representation or a drawing of earth’s surface or area of it which is drawn on a flat surface according to a scale.

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Maps are of a few sorts.
Maps indicating normal highlights of the earth are called physical or help maps.
Maps demonstrating urban communities, town and towns, nations and conditions of the world with their limits are called political maps.
Some maps concentrate on particular data like precipitation delineate, maps, maps of vacationer places are called topical maps.

SEGMENTS OF MAPS:

There are three segments of maps-separation, bearing and image.
Distance is measured as far as scale. Scale is the portion between the real separation on the ground and the separation appeared on the guide.
When expansive regions like continents or nations are to be appeared on a paper, at that point we utilize a little scale.
When a little territory likes your town to town in to be appeared on paper, at that point we utilize a vast scale outline.
Directions are cardinal focuses like North, South, East and West.
Symbols are sure letters, shades, hues, pictures and lines, which give us data about a restricted place.
Various different things like outlines and plan are utilized to draw a region of an extensive scale.

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