Question

What are relief features and Explain how the plateau can be represented by using contour lines?

Answer 1

Instructions: Explain the relief features with examples and contour lines drawn to represent plateau.
Key concepts - Relief features, Contour lines

Answer
Relief features

• Relief features are high and low lands on the surface of the earth.
• The relief features are hills, plateaus, plains, valleys, river basins, Rocky and sandy places etc.
• These features are represented by special symbols. One such relief symbol is contours.

Contour lines

• Contour lines are defined as the collection of lines joining places having the same elevation above mean sea level.
• It shows the three dimensional effect of relief.
• A widely stretched flat- topped high land, with relatively steeper slopes, rising above the adjoining plain or sea is called a plateau.
• The contour lines representing a plateau are normally close spaced at the margins with the innermost contours showing a wide gap between its two sides.