NCERT Solutions for Exploring Society: India and Beyond Chapter 1 Locating Places On The Earth

About this chapter

A map is a drawing of an area seen from above. It may show a village, a district, a State, India or the whole world. A book or collection of maps is an atlas . Maps are of three main kinds — physical (mountains, rivers, oceans), political (countries, States, capitals) and thematic (one special kind of information). Every map has three components: distance (shown by the scale , e.g. 1 cm = 500 m), direction (the four cardinal points N, E, S, W and the four intermediate ones NE, SE, SW, NW) and symbols (fixed by the Survey of India for Indian maps). The Earth is nearly a sphere, so a globe shows it better than a flat sheet. On the globe, parallels of latitude measure the distance north or south of the Equator (0°, up to 90°N and 90°S) and meridians of longitude measure the distance east or w

• (Introduction)Introduction
• Chapter opening
• Let us play a game
• On the map in Fig. 1.1 (page 8)
• Scale
• Directions on the map of the small city
• Symbols
• Understanding coordinates
• Reading coordinates from a globe or atlas
• Understanding time zones