{"id":21844,"date":"2025-06-16T07:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=21844"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:27:46","slug":"which-of-the-following-will-have-the-largest-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/which-of-the-following-will-have-the-largest-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following will have the largest scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Which of the following will have the largest scale ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) A city guide map <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) A world map <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Map of India <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) A globe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is:<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correct Answer: (a) A city guide map<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In cartography (map-making), <strong>&#8220;scale&#8221;<\/strong> refers to the ratio between a distance on the map and the actual distance on the ground. A <strong>larger scale<\/strong> means that the map shows a <strong>smaller area in greater detail<\/strong>, while a <strong>smaller scale<\/strong> covers a <strong>larger area with less detail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s analyze the options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>(a) A city guide map<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This map covers a <strong>small geographic area (just one city)<\/strong> but provides <strong>a lot of detail<\/strong> (streets, buildings, parks, etc.).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scale example<\/strong>: 1:10,000 or 1:5,000 (1 cm on the map = 100 m or 50 m in reality).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is a <strong>large-scale map<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(b) A world map<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Covers the entire Earth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Has to fit huge distances onto a single sheet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scale example<\/strong>: 1:50,000,000 or smaller.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This is a <strong>small-scale map<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(c) Map of India<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Covers a large country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scale example<\/strong>: 1:10,000,000 or 1:5,000,000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Smaller in scale compared to a city map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>(d) A globe<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Also represents the whole Earth, like a world map.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Depending on size, it could have similar or slightly larger scale than flat world maps, but still very small compared to a city map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong>city guide map<\/strong> has the <strong>largest scale<\/strong> because it represents a <strong>small area with great detail<\/strong>, while maps like a world map or a globe represent vast areas with little detail per unit area. The <strong>larger the scale<\/strong>, the more <strong>zoomed-in<\/strong> the map is. Hence, <strong>(a) A city guide map<\/strong> is the correct answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following will have the largest scale ? (a) A city guide map (b) A world map (c) Map of India (d) A globe The correct answer and explanation is: Correct Answer: (a) A city guide map Explanation: In cartography (map-making), &#8220;scale&#8221; refers to the ratio between a distance on the map and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21845,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21844\/revisions\/21845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}