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Representation of Geographical Features: Contours and Toposheets
Geography · Chapter 1
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- Contours: meaning; reading height and shape from contours on a topographical sheet
- Types of slopes from contours: steep and gentle
- Identifying landforms through contours: hills, plateaus, ridges, gap, saddle, col and pass
- Settlement patterns on toposheets: temporary and permanent; nucleated, dispersed and linear
- Interpreting and analysing a given toposheet