FORESTRY
REMOTE SENSING
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Question
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What does 1mm on a map drawn at a scale of 1:50, 000 represent on the ground?
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500 centimetres
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50 centimetres
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50 metres
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5 metres
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Scale on a map is 1:50000. To find, Equivalence of 1 mm on the map in meters. Hence, 1 mm on the map is equivalent to 50 meters.
Detailed explanation-2: -At a map scale of 1:100000, 1 kilometer on the ground is equivalent to 1 millimeter on the map.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ratio. A map scale is usually given as a ratio e.g. 1 : 50, 000 which you read as “one-to-fifty thousand". This means that every centimeter on the map represents 50, 000cm or 500 meters on the ground. This is a large scale map as it gives a lot of detail over a small area of ground.
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