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Scale Calculation

Geography ⇒ Geographical Skills and Techniques

Scale Calculation starts at 7 and continues till grade 12. QuestionsToday has an evolving set of questions to continuously challenge students so that their knowledge grows in Scale Calculation. How you perform is determined by your score and the time you take. When you play a quiz, your answers are evaluated in concept instead of actual words and definitions used.
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A distance of 8 cm on a map represents 16 km on the ground. What is the scale of the map in RF?
A map has a graphical scale bar showing 0 to 5 km as a 2.5 cm line. What is the scale of the map in RF?
A map has a scale of 1:100,000. If a park is 3 cm by 4 cm on the map, what is its actual area in square kilometers?
A map has a scale of 1:100,000. If a river is 12 cm long on the map, what is its actual length in kilometers?
A map has a scale of 1:100,000. What is the ground distance if two points are 7 cm apart on the map?
A map has a scale of 1:50,000. What ground distance does 6 cm on the map represent?
A map has a scale of 1:500,000. If the distance between two cities is 15 cm on the map, what is the real distance in kilometers?
A map shows a distance of 4 cm between two villages. If the scale is 1:25,000, what is the actual distance between the villages in kilometers?
Explain how to convert a graphical scale to a representative fraction.
Explain the difference between a verbal scale and a graphical scale.
Explain the importance of scale in interpreting maps accurately.
Explain why a large scale map is more suitable for town planning than a small scale map.
Explain why it is important to use the same units when calculating the representative fraction.
If 1 cm on a map represents 5 km on the ground, what is the representative fraction (RF) of the map?
If a map has a scale of 1:2,50,000, what does 1 cm on the map represent on the ground?
If a map has a scale of 1:200,000, what is the ground distance represented by 2.5 cm on the map?
If a map has a scale of 1:25,000 and a road is 10 cm long on the map, what is the actual length of the road in kilometers?
If a map has a scale of 1:25,000, what is the ground distance represented by 20 cm on the map?
If a map has a scale of 2 cm = 1 km, what is the RF of the map?
If a map scale is given as 1 cm = 2 km, how many centimeters on the map would represent 10 km on the ground?