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    Topography - Important Points (Grade 10 ICSE)

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    This document outlines important points about interpreting topographic maps, including how to identify perennial rivers, disappearing streams, natural and man-made features, and how to measure direct and indirect distances using the scale provided. It also explains how to determine things like rainfall, vegetation, and occupation from symbols and markings on the map.

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    Topography - Important Points (Grade 10 ICSE)

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    This document outlines important points about interpreting topographic maps, including how to identify perennial rivers, disappearing streams, natural and man-made features, and how to measure direct and indirect distances using the scale provided. It also explains how to determine things like rainfall, vegetation, and occupation from symbols and markings on the map.

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    Topography - Important Points (Grade 10 ICSE)

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    This document outlines important points about interpreting topographic maps, including how to identify perennial rivers, disappearing streams, natural and man-made features, and how to measure direct and indirect distances using the scale provided. It also explains how to determine things like rainfall, vegetation, and occupation from symbols and markings on the map.

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    IMPORTANT POINTS

    1. The thin blue line shows a water channel, it means that it is a perennial river.
    2. Disappearing stream: It occurs generally in porous, sandy, arid regions. The
    water in the stream is absorbed by the sand before it meets the main river.
    3. Dry tank (natural feature)
    Dry tank with embankment (man-made feature)
    4. Brackish: This water is salty and unfit for human or animal consumption and
    cultivation, neither can it be used for irrigation.
    5. Form lines: It indicates heights of inaccessible areas.
    6. Relative height/depth: If the number written is in black, it indicates height from
    ground level and if the number written is in blue, it indicates depth.
    7. Finding Direct distance: Measure the distance (without tracing along the path).
    Then by using the scale (2cm = 1km), divide the readings obtained by 2.
    8. Finding Indirect distance: Measure the distance (tracing along the path). Then by
    using the scale (2cm = 1km), divide the readings obtained by 2.
    9. Occupation:
     Stone Quarry – Quarrying.
     Irrigation from wells, canals/tanks – Farming
     Yellow wash – Agriculture / Cultivation.
     Forest Area- People are dependent on forest produce or Forestry.
     Settlement along banks of rivers – Fishing.
     Kiln – Drying and Baking of bricks, pottery.
     Large Settlement with a metalled road – Industries, Trade, Public Services.
     Point (like Sunset Point) – Tourism.
    10. No metalled road – because of dense jungles, barren land, steep hills, many
    streams and no important settlements.
    11. Poor Rainfall – because of Presence of sand dunes/ undefined or disappearing
    streams/ scrub vegetation/broken grounds.
    12. Seasonal Rainfall – because of Seasonal streams/ Broken ground/open scrub/
    cart track motor able in dry season/seasonal tank.
    13. Natural features – rivers, streams, sand features, trees, broken grounds, natural
    ponds, unlined wells, jungles, depressions (Dep), islands (in the exposed river
    beds), physical features like hills, waterfalls, spurs, river valleys and cliffs, shown
    by contours and their heights.
    14. Manmade features – surveyed trees, queries, permanent huts, causeways, mines,
    metalled and unmetalled roads, pack tracts, cart tracts, artificial lakes with
    embankments, boundaries (national and international), post offices, police
    chowkies and inspection bungalows.
    15. Area no need to be divide by 2(not to be converted).

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