Study the extract of the Survey of India Map Sheet No. 45D/7 and answer the following questions:

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Study the extract of the Survey of India Map Sheet No. 45D/7 and answer the following questions:

a. What do the following represent:
i. Black broken lines in 9575
ii. The black curved lines in 9879
b. Identify two landforms shown by the contours in grid square 9876.
c.
i. What is the general direction of Balram Nadi?
ii. Which bank of the main river does Balram Nadi join?
d. What is the main occupation of the people living in an area shown in the map extract? Give one reason to support your answer.
e. What is meant by the scale of a map?
What is the scale of the map provided to you?

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a. (i)Unidentified streams
(ii)Broken ground
b.Two landforms shown by the contours in grid square 9876 are a conical hill and saddle.
c. (i)South-east to north-west
(ii)Balram Nadi joins the left bank of the main river.
d. Agriculture is the main occupation of the people living in an area shown in the map extract. The presence of perennial wells shows that agriculture is the main occupation of the people.
e. A scale is the proportionate distance between two points on a map to the actual distance on the ground.
The scale of the map extract is 1:50000 or 2 cm to 1 km.