(ii) Thematic Map ✓
(ii) To find the main direction ✓
(i) Water bodies ✓
(i) For a map ✓
(a) The three Components of Maps are – distance, direction and symbol.
(b) The four cardinal directions are North, South, East and West.
(c) The scale of the map is the ratio between the actual distance on the ground and the distance shown on the map. For example: 5 cm = 1km.
(d) The maps are more helpful than a globe in the following ways:
A globe can be useful when we want to study the earth as a whole. But, maps are useful when we want to study only a part of the earth.
Maps are useful to us to solve various purposes.
Maps provide more information than a globe.
They can be carried easily.
They are of different types:
(i) Political Maps (ii) Physical Maps and (iii) Thematic Maps
(e)
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Map |
Plan |
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It is a representation or a drawing of the earth’s surface or a part of it drawn on a flat surface according to a scale. |
A plan is a drawing of a small area on a large scale. |
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It gives detailed information about earth but cannot depict smaller details. |
It gives even the smaller details of the area. |
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It is drawn to small scale. |
It is drawn to large scale. |
(f) Large scale maps provide detailed information than small scale maps.
(g) It is not possible to draw on a map the actual shape and size of different features such as buildings, roads, rivers, etc., so they are shown by using certain letters, shades, colours, pictures and lines. These symbols give a lot of information in a limited space. It makes the map making and reading easy and simple.
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