Chapter 9 – Maps - Our Companions
EXERCISES
1. Make a list of the various landforms in your surroundings. Draw one of the landforms in your notebook using one of the methods of showing landforms.
Ans: Students must do this on their own.
2. In the following sentences, underline the words that represent landforms and prepare signs or symbols for them.
(a) Sonali lives just beyond Mount Takmak.
Ans: Mount
Symbol:
(b) Nilesh has gone on a trip to Gharapuri Island.
Ans: Island
Symbol:
3. Prepare signs and symbols for the following components :
House, hospital, factory, park, playground, road, hill, river.
Ans:
4. The given map shows height through the use of colours. However, one colour representation is wrong. Write which colour would be correct in its place.
Ans: On the map, the blue colour representation of height is wrong. A green colour would be correct in its place.