Solutions-Class 8-Geography-Chapter-9-Map Scale-Maharashtra Board

The classification of maps showing the given areas is as follows :

• Small scale maps : (1) Country of India (2) World map (3) Maharashtra state (4) The north sky at night.
• Large scale maps : (1) Building (2) School (3) Church (4) Mall (5) Garden (6) Dispensary.

Out of the two maps with respective scales of 1 cm = 100 m and 1 cm =

100 km, a map with respective scale of 1 cm = 100 m would be a large scale map.

Reasons :

• 1 metre is equal to 100 centimetres and 100 metre is equal to 10000 centimetres.
• Thus, the value of the given verbal scale (1cm = 100 m) is 1 : 10000 in numerical terms (scale).
• A map having a numerical scale of 1 : 10,000 or less than it is called large scale map. Therefore, 1cm = 100 m would be a large scale map.

Types of maps :

• Maps of villages, church, agricultural fields, etc. are the large scale maps.
• Maps of state, country, continent, world, etc. are the small scale maps.

• 1 kilometre is equal to 100000 centimetres. Therefore, 53 kilometres is equal to 5300000 centimetres.
• Therefore, the verbal scale of 1 cm= 53 km can be converted to a numerical scale as — 1 : 5300000.

• 100000 centimetres is equal to 1 kilometre. Thus, 10000000 centimetres is equal to 100 kilometres.
• Therefore, numerical scale of 1 : 10000000 to a verbal scale in the metric system can be converted as 1 cm = 100 km.

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