EVS 5

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Ploughing
Sowing

Harvesting

Irrigation

13- Following are the steps involved in the process of cultivation. Arrange them in
order by putting number 1 to 6 in the space provided.

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14- Name the following agriculture tools/implements and write the purpose for
which they are used in the lines given below.

(i) (ii)

................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................

(iii) (iv)

................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................

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(v) (vi)

................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................

(vii)

................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................
................................................ ................................................

15- Give two example of each of the following:

(i) Rabi crop ......................... .........................
.........................
(ii) Kharif crop ......................... .........................
.........................
(iii) Cash crop .........................

(iv) Plantation crop .........................

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16- What is the difference between natural and artificial fertilizers.

Natural fertilizer Artificial fertilizer

17- Differentiate between the methods of modern farming and traditional farming.

Methods of traditional Methods of modern farming
farming

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CHAPTER 20

Whose Forests?

1- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs).

(i) To which community did Suryanami belong?

(a) Kuduk c (b) Baiga c

(c) Bhils c (d) Khasis c

(ii) Suryanami was associated with which movement?

(a) Chipko Movement c

(b) Jharkhand Jungle Bachao Andolan c

(c) Apiko Movement c

(d) Narmada Bachao Andolan c

(iii) To which state did Suryanami belong?

(a) Chhattisgarh c (b) Orissa c

(c) Jharkhand c (d) Mizoram c

(iv) What was the name of Suryanami's centre?

(a) Kuduk c (b) Torang c

(c) Jungle Bachao c (d) Cheraw c

(v) In Mizoram how much of the people are linked to forests?

(a) 25% c (b) 40% c

(c) 50% c (d) 75% c

2- Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False statements. c
(i) The school in Bishanpur was near thick forest. c
(ii) Suryanami was 31 when she opened her centre 'Torang'. c
(iii) Mizoram is located in a coastal area.

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(iv) In Jhoom farming, different crops can be grown on the same farm. c

(v) In Mizoram very few children go to school. c

3- Fill in the blanks.

Kuduk, Sunday, rice, book, ba, fertile, scholorship, 25 years, Torang,
Jharkhand Jungle Bachao Andolan, Torang, adivasi

(i) Every ............... Suryamani takes children to the forest.

(ii) To learn to read the forest is as important as reading a............... .

(iii) Suryanami passed her ............... after getting a ............... .

(iv) 'Torang' means jungle in ............... language.

(v) Ash makes the land ............... .

(vi) The main crop of Jhoom farming is ............... .

(vii) The lives of ............... are closely linked to the forests.

(viii) In kuduk language, forest is called ............... .

(ix) Suryamani opened a centre named ............... to promote kuduk language
and adivasi culture and traditions.

(x) According to Right to Forest Act 2007, people who have been living in
the forest for at least ............... have the right over the forest land and its
produce.

(xi) Suryamani joined ............... to save forests of jharkhand.

4- Forests give us many products. Circle the ones which are obtained from forests.

Timber Coins Milk

Plastic Paper Bamboo

Wool Herbs Cotton Wax

Speices Polythene Medicine

Name some other products that we obtain from forests.

___________________________________________________________

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5- Read a part of the letter written by Sikhya a class X girl in Odisha to the Chief

Minister and answer the questions that follows.
A forest is everything for us adivasis. We can't live away from the forests even
for a day. Government has started many projects in the name of development -
dams and factories are being built. Forests, which are ours, are being taken away
from us. Because of these projects, we need to think where will the forest people
go and what will happen to their livelihood? Where will the lakhs of animals
living in the forests go? If there are no forests, and we dig our lands for minerals
like aluminium, what will be left? Only polluted air, water, and miles and miles
of barren land.

(i) How are adivasis dependent on forests?

______________________________________________________

(ii) What types of projects are started in the name of development?

______________________________________________________

(iii) How will these projects affect the forests, forest people and animals?

______________________________________________________

(iv) What will happen if forests disappear?

______________________________________________________

6- Answer the following questions in one sentence.
(i) Why did Suryamani go to school?

______________________________________________________

(ii) What did Suryamani's father do?

______________________________________________________

(iii) What did Suryamani's mother do?

______________________________________________________

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7- Answer the following questions briefly.

(i) Why could the adivasis not take anything from the forest after the
contractor came?

______________________________________________________

(ii) Why did Suryamani's father move to the town? How did Suryamani's
chacha help them?

______________________________________________________

(iii) Why did Suryamani not want to study in the school in Bishanpur in the
beginning?

______________________________________________________

(iv) Why did Suryamani's chacha want Suryamani to study in the school in
Bishanpur?

______________________________________________________

(v) Why was Suryamani filled with joy later on when she saw the school at
Bishanpur?

______________________________________________________

(vi) What is the 'girl stars' project?

______________________________________________________

(vii) Why are forest dwellers known as adivasis?

______________________________________________________

(viii) Why was Budhiyamai not scared of the contractor? Why did she say, "The
forest is like our collective bank"?

______________________________________________________

(ix) Who was ........................................
(a) Vasavi didi ? ........................................
(b) Bijoy ? ........................................
(c) Mirchi ?

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(x) How did Vasavi didi and Bijoy help Suryamani?

______________________________________________________

(xi) Why did Suryamani's father did not like Suryamani to work for the
movement (to save forests)

______________________________________________________

(xii) What was Suryamani's dream? With whom did she share her thoughts and
dreams?

______________________________________________________

(xiii) Who are adivasis? For what right of adivasis was Suryamani fighting?

______________________________________________________

8- Look at the picture and answer the following questions.

(i) Where are the children in the picture going?

______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

(ii) In which language do they speak?

______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

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(iii) What do they do in the forest?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

9- Answer the following questions based on the lottery system of farming followed
in Mizoram.
(i) How is the land alloted to village people for farming?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(ii) Who allots these lands?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(iii) What is the standard unit used to measure the land? Why is it called so?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

10- Answer the following questions based on Jhoom farming.
(i) How is Jhoom farming done? Where is such type of farming done?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(ii) How is land made fertile in Jhoom farming?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

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(iii) While burning bamboo or weeds, what care should be taken?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(iv) How all crops are grown?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(v) The main crop is rice. Why is it difficult to take the crop home?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(vi) How do village people celebrate if they have a good crop? If some family
is not able to do farming, then how do other people help that family?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(vii) Which is their special dance? How is it carried out?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

11- Explain the following terms.
Deforestation ..................................................................................................
Afforestation ..................................................................................................

12- Name any two
(i) Things made of bamboo

______________________________________________________

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(ii) Movements to save forests

______________________________________________________

13- Write in brief about "The Right to Forest Act, 2007".

___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________

14- What effect does the cutting down of forests have on the environment? What
can you do to protect your environment?

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

15- Write one word answer for the following:

(i) Unwanted plants which grow in the field on their .........................
own.

(ii) The main crops of Mizoram. .........................

(iii) A special dance of Mizoram. .........................

(iv) A project to identify the extraordinary stories of

ordinary girls, who have changed their lives by

going to school. .........................

(v) The community to which Suryamani belong. .........................

16- Look at the map of the India given below and answer the following questions:
(i) Two northern states that have "thick forests".

______________________________________________________

(ii) Two northen states that have "thin forests".

______________________________________________________

(iii) The state in South India that has thick forests.

______________________________________________________

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(iv) One state that does not have any forest.

______________________________________________________

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CHAPTER 21

Like Father, Like Daughter

1- Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False statements.

(i) Two sisters brought up in different environments behave in a similar

way. c

(ii) Polio can be transferred from parents to their children. c

(iii) Mendel did not have money to study at university. c

(iv) Our abilities may change because of some illness or old age. c

2- Fill in the blanks.
Family, Mendel, environment, legs, adopted, identical, limbs, virus

(i) Some traits or habits we get from our ............... whereas some habits and
skills are learnt from our ............... .

(ii) An ............... child does not resemble the people who bring it up.
(iii) ............... are affected when a person suffers from polio.
(iv) ............... explained the transfer of triats to the next generation using pea

plant.
(v) ............... twins look exactly the same.
(vi) polio is a disease caused by ............... .
(vii) A person who suffers from polio, has affected ............... .

3- Answer the following questions based on Mendel and his experiment.
(i) When and where was Mendel born?

______________________________________________________

(ii) What was his father's occupation?

______________________________________________________

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(iii) Was Mendel fond of studies?

______________________________________________________

(iv) What did Mendel want to become?

______________________________________________________

(v) Why did Mendel always keep failing in his exams?

______________________________________________________

(vi) Why did Mendel become a monk?

______________________________________________________

(vii) Where and on which plant did Mendel do his experiment?

______________________________________________________

(viii) What did Mendel discover through his experiments?

______________________________________________________

4- Answer the following questions in brief.
(i) Give two examples of problems that are age related or acquired due to old
age.

______________________________________________________

(ii) What factors contribute in making our identity?

______________________________________________________

(iii) Which part of the body is affected by polio? Is this hereditary?

______________________________________________________

5- Answer the following questions about twins.
(i) Who are twins?

______________________________________________________

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(ii) Write their similarities.

______________________________________________________

(iii) How are they different?

______________________________________________________

6- Why do we sneeze?

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

7- How can polio be prevented? What efforts are government making to eradicate
polio from our country?

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

8- What values does our family teach us?

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

9- What are traits? List some traits that you have inherited from your parents.

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

10- Write some factors that are inherited by birth and some factors that are not.

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

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11- Answer the following questions about you and your family.

(i) What is the colour of your eyes?

______________________________________________________

(ii) What is the colour of your hair? How long are your hair?

______________________________________________________

(iii) What is your height?

______________________________________________________

(iv) Does your face or anything else look similar to that of someone else in your
family? With whom you have similarity?

______________________________________________________

(v) Are any of your habits or traits similar to your father? Which ones?

______________________________________________________

(vi) Are any of your habits or traits similar to your mother? Which ones?

______________________________________________________

(vii) Are any of your habits or traits similar to any other person in the family?
With whom? Which ones?

______________________________________________________

12- Find the meaning of the following words.
(i) Hereditary ................................................................................

(ii) Trait ................................................................................

(iii) Siblings ................................................................................

(iv) Adoption ................................................................................

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13- Find out and write

(i) The names of any two diseases which can be transferred from parents to
their children.

______________________________________________________

(ii) The names of any two diseases which are not transferred from parents to
their children.

______________________________________________________

14- Find out and write.

(i) Does Nilima have curly hair like her nani's? Now you look for some special
trait in your sister or brother (could also be cousins). Like the colour of
eyes, dimples in cheeks, height, broad or sharp nose, voice, etc. See if this
trait comes from the father's side or the mother's side. Make this table and
fill it. An example is given.

Special trait Whom does it From whose side?
resemble?
Mother's Father's

(ii) Have you seen a very young child in your (or any other) family? Whom
does the child's eyes, nose, hair or fingers look like in the family? Write
their names.

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

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(iii) Nilima's hair is like her nani's - thick and curly. Nilima's mother has
straight, brown and limp hair? What type of hair do you have - black or
brown, oily or dry?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(iv) What is the colour of your hair? Measure and write the length of your hair.

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(v) Is your hair like that of anyone else in your family? If yes, then name the
person.

______________________________________________________

(vi) Who has the longest hair in your family?

______________________________________________________

15- Draw your family tree.

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CHAPTER 22

On The Move Again

1- Write 'T' for True and 'F' for False statements.

(i) Mukadam is an agent who lends money. c

(ii) Farming is not possible without rain. c

(iii) Dhanu was not fond of studies. c

(iv) Near a sugarcane field people live in huts made of dry sugarcane and its

leaves. c

(v) Dhanu helps his father in sugarcane fields. c

(vi) Dhanu's Aai, mami and kaki were buys making gulab jamun. c

(vii) Mukadam is the owner of the sugarcane factories. c

(viii) Families like Dhanu's, work on the land of big farmers till Dussehra. c

(ix) The old and sick people in the village do not go to work. c

(x) Mami wants Dhanu to study and become a farmer like them. c

2- Fill in the blanks with appropriate words given in the box.

motor, 3 months, paddy, caravan, ill, young, 6 months, sugarcane, old,
study, play, Puranpoli, big farmers, Mukadam

(i) Mukadam is an agent for ............... factories.

(ii) For ............... Dhanu and many children like him will not be able to go to
school.

(iii) ............... and ............... peoples stayed back in the village.

(iv) The ............... of families would settle near sugarcane fields and factories.

(v) If children ............... they can become good person in life and have a
better future.

(vi) ............... are sweet made from jaggery and gram.

(vii) Dhanu's family work on the land of ............... till Dussehra before the
rainy season.

(viii) ............... lends money to the villagers.

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3- Answer the following questions based on Dussehra celebration in Dhanu's village.

(i) Who all have come to Dhanu's house?

______________________________________________________

(ii) Why have they come to Dhanu's house?

______________________________________________________

(iii) What things have Dhanu's mother and aunt prepared?

______________________________________________________

(iv) Why did everybody's mood change in the evening? What did they do in
the evening?

______________________________________________________

4- Answer the following questions based on evening meeting on Dussehra in Dha-
nu's village?

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(i) Why was a meeting held on Dussehra evening? What did the Mukadam
tell the village people?

______________________________________________________

(ii) Where did the village people work before and after Dussehra?

______________________________________________________

(iii) Why did the village people have to borrow money from the Mukadam?

______________________________________________________

5- Answer the following questions based on moving to the new place.

(i) Who all will go with Dhanu's family to the new place?

______________________________________________________

(ii) Will all the members of Dhanu's family go with him? Why?

______________________________________________________

(iii) What problems will Dhanu and his family members have to face due to
shifting?

______________________________________________________

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6- Answer the following questions based on life after Dussehra. Dhanu's family and

many other families have settled near the sugarcane fields and sugar factories

after Dussehra.

(i) Where will Dhanu's family stay? Do they have a house near the sugar
factory?

______________________________________________________

(ii) Does Dhanu go to school at the new place? Why?

______________________________________________________

(iii) What work do men and women have to do in sugar factories? Do they get
enough money?

______________________________________________________

(iv) How long will they stay near the sugar factory?

______________________________________________________

(v) Do children also work in the fields and factories? Why?

______________________________________________________

(vi) For what did the workers get a receipt in the factory?

______________________________________________________

(vii) What did Dhanu's aai and mami buy from the money they got?

______________________________________________________

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7- Define the following terms in one sentence each.

(i) Caravan ................................................................................

(ii) Migration ................................................................................

(iii) Debts ................................................................................

(iv) Loan ................................................................................

(v) Agent ................................................................................

8- Write a few lines on each topic.
(i) The problems, a family and its children have to face when they move from
one place to the other.

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(ii) Common problems of farmers in India.

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

(iii) How can arrangements be made for educating children of communities
that are on the move?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

9- Name a few communities who have to migrate from one place to another for
work.
(i) ........................................ (ii) ........................................

(iii) ........................................ (iv) ........................................

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10- The role of Mukadam in the life of poor village people.

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________

11- You have read about many kinds of farmers in different lessons in this book.
Fill the table.

Name of the Owns land What do they What difficulties A n y t h i n g

farmer ({ or X) grow do they face else

(i) Damjibhai
(Lesson __)

(ii) Hasmukh
(Lesson __)

(iii)

(iv)

(v)

(vi)

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