ch - 11 Transport in India — Geography STD 10 — Question

Study the extract of the Survey of India Map sheet No. 45D/10 and answer the following questions:
(a) 
(i) Give the four figure grid reference of the settlement of Hamirpura.
(ii) Give the six figure grid reference of the temple in the settlement of Jolpur.
(b) 
(i) What does the blue coloured circle in the grid square 0619 represent?
(ii) What is the compass direction of Dantrai from Jolpur?
(c) What is the difference between the:
(i) Pattern of settlements in 0725 and the settlement of Idarla?
(ii) Drainage pattern of the streams in 0624 and those in 0824?
(d) 
(i) What is the value of the contour line in square 0226?
(ii) What is the contour interval in the map?
(e) Mention any two factors which provide evidence that the region in the map extract is a rural region.
(f) 
(i) How does the feature, indicated by the black curves in 0721, show that rainfall in this region is seasonal?
(ii) Mention one man-made feature in the map which also provides evidence that the rainfall is seasonal.
(g)
(i) Name two natural features in 0527.
(ii) Name two manmade features in 0325.
(h) Name two features which make Dantrai a more important settlement than the other settlements in the map extract.
(i) Calculate the area of the region which lies to the south of northing 21 in square kilometres.
(j)  What are the following?
(i) The black vertical line between eastings 09 and 10.
(ii) 302 in grid square 0425.

What is incineration? Give advantage and disadvantage of incineration.

Heavy Industries and Light Industries.

Mention three factors that have helped the sugar industry flourish in the peninsular region rather than in the northern regions of India.

What is a rain water harvester? How does it work?

On the map of India,
(a) Mark and name the Shiwalik Range.
(b) Mark and name, the Western Ghats with two gaps, Bhor Ghat and Palghat Gap.
(c) Mark and name the peak on the Karakoram Mts, (Mt. Godwin Austien or Mt. K2).
(d) Mark and name, the highest peak on the Himalayas, (Mt Everest).
(e) Mark and name Mt. Kanchenjunga.
(f) Mark and name the Maikal Range.
(g) Shade and name the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

Show the following on the outline map provided:

(a) Shade and label the Satpura Range.
(b) Label the River Krishna.
(c) Label the River Ravi.
(d) Shade and label the Khasi Hills.
(e) Mark with arrows the direction of the North-East Monsoon winds over the Bay of Bengal.
(f) Mark and label the Malabar coast.
(g) Shade and label an area of Laterite soil in India.
(h) Shade and label an area of Limestone in India.

What, has been the influence of the Northern Mountain Wall on the Indian Sub-continent?

Explain the stages involved in secondary treatment of water.

On the outline map provided
(a) Label the river Chenab.
(b) Label the river Chambal.
(c) Shade and label the Nilgiri Hills.
(d) Mark and label the Eastern Ghats.
(e) Mark and name the port city of Pakistan.
(f) Mark and label Hyderabad.
(g) Shade and label the Sunderbans.
(h) Mark and name the Palk Strait.
(i) Mark and label a region North of the Tropic of Cancer where tea is grown extensively.
(j) Mark and name the winds which bring rain to Mumbai in July and August.