Exploring Social Science

What is a map and how do we use it? What are its main components?

What are coordinates? How can latitude and longitude be used to mark any location on the Earth?

How are local time and standard time related to longitude?

Which way would you go?

Are there other possible ways?

Can you locate the public garden, the school and the museum?

If you want to proceed from the bank to the market, which way will you go?

What is the meaning of the blue-coloured areas?

Which is farther away from the railway station — the school, the Nagar Panchayat or the public garden?

How many centimetres do you get? Using the scale, calculate the real length of the playground’s diagonal, in metres.