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DHA Education System

Subject Geography Class 6


Answer Key
Q1: Choose the correct answer.
i. __________ Maps show roads and railway, also air and sea routes.
a) Distribution
b) Physical
c) Route
d) Relief
ii. To estimate average amount of rainfall in a certain area, __________ are used.
a) Bar graphs
b) Line graphs
c) Pie Charts
d) None of these
iii. A line drawn from north to south on a map is called __________.
a) Equator
b) Longitude
c) Latitude
d) Grid
iv. The ___________ tells us what the map is showing.
a) Title
b) Scale
c) Direction
d) None of these
v. Cartographers are ___________________.
a) Travelers
b) Traders
c) Map makers
d) Warriors

Q.2: Fill in the blanks.

i. Karachi is in the south of Pakistan.


ii. Equator is a line of latitude with 00 value.
iii. Prime Meridian is a line of longitude, also called Greenwich Meridian as it passes from Greenwich
England.
iv. Line of latitude is a line that is draw from west to east on a map.
v. The north sign is an arrow pointing to the top of the map.
vi. The features on a map are drawn to the scale.
vii. Muhammad al Idrisi was born in 1099 in Sicily, an island in Mediterranean Sea.
viii. Learning outside the classroom is called field work.
ix. Water features on maps are shown in blue color.
x. Karachi is in the west of River Indus.
xi. Uplands on maps are shown in shades of brown and purple colors.
xii. Bar graphs show rainfall and line graphs show temperature.
xiii. A cross section shows the internal structure of an object.
xiv. In Pakistan 46% of the population, i.e. nearly half, is aged 14 and under.
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DHA Education System
Subject Geography Class 6
Answer Key
xv. The symbols on a map represent something on the ground.
xvi. Kotri Barrage is on Indus River.
xvii. Deccan plateau is in India.
xviii. A natural fountain of hot water and steam is called geyser.
xix. Molten rock material below the surface of earth is called magma.

Q.3: Define these terms.


A) Linear Scale
A scale which is shown on a line in the corner of the map. A map scale is the map distance ratio that
corresponds to the actual ground distance. The scale on the map presents a distance measurement
between each landmark.
B) Latitudes
These are imaginary lines running from west to east. Lines of latitude measure north-south position
between the poles. Lines of latitude are all parallel to each other, thus they are often referred to as
parallels.
C) Key
A key or legend is included with a map to unlock it. It gives the information needed for the map to make
sense. Maps often use symbols or colors to represent things, and the map key explains what they mean. )
D) Map
A map is a drawing of the view from above or all of the earth's surface. Cartographers are the map
makers who prepare different types of maps. Different maps have different uses or purposes.
E) Block Diagram
A block diagram shows a block of land as if it has been cut out of the countryside with a huge knife.
F) Globe
Globe is a spherical scale model of earth. A globe is a picture of a planet drawn on a sphere.
G) Grid
Grid is a network of vertical and horizontal lines.

Q.4: Short questions.

a) What are symbols, compass and key used for?


Symbols in the key might be pictures or icons that represent different things on the map. Sometimes the
map might by colored or shaded, and the key explains what the colors and shades mean.
A key or legend is included with a map to unlock it. It gives the information needed for the map to make
sense. Maps often use symbols or colors to represent things, and the map key explains what they mean.
A compass is a tool for finding direction.

b) Write down the steps of field work.

Learning outside the class room is known as field work. It has different steps such as:
DHAES Subject Geography Class 6
DHA Education System
Subject Geography Class 6
Answer Key
 Look and think

 Collecting information

 Recording information

 Organizing the information

 Presenting the results of the field trip


c) What are physical maps?
Physical maps often include much of the same data found on a political map, but their primary purpose is
to show landforms like deserts, mountains and plains.
d) What is statistics?
These are sets of numbers about a topic such as population or rain fall. These are useful to show different
information about different things. These may be in the form of numbers, integers, tables with columns
and rows and other different values.
e) What are symbols?
Symbols in the key might be pictures or icons that represent different things on the map. Sometimes the
map might by colored or shaded, and the key explains what the colors and shades mean.
f) What are distribution maps?
Distribution maps indicate the distribution of any particular feature in an area. Distribution maps may be
qualitative such as those representing vegetation or soil of a region, or quantitative, i.e., it may be
representing population.
g) What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is the molten rock material below the earth’s surface. Lava is the molten rock material above the
earth’s surface. Lava may be sticky (concentrated) and runny (dilute) which is responsible for different
shapes of volcanoes.

Q.5: Write the names of lines of


latitudes on the following diagram.

DHAES Subject Geography Class 6


DHA Education System
Subject Geography Class 6
Answer Key
Q. On the given map label the landforms of Pakistan:

DHAES Subject Geography Class 6

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