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Answer the following questions briefly : (a) What are the three components of a map? (b) What are the four cardinal directions? (c) What do you mean by the term, 'the scale of the map'?

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(a)The three components of a map are distance, direction and symbol. (b)The four cardinal directions are North, South, East and West. (c)The scale of the map is a measuring line with the help of which correct distance between various points on a map can be measured. The scale of map is thus, a ratio between any two points on the ir.aps and actual distance on the land. It can be a millimetre, a centimetre or an inch to represent a kilometre, a hundred kilometre or a thousand kilometre or even still larger distances. On some maps the scale is not given as a line but is mentioned in words. For instance, it may be given as 1 centimetre = 1 kilometre It means that one centimetre on the mape is equl to one kilometer on the ground,