Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth
Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth Question 1.Answer the following questions briefly: Why do the plated move? What are exogenic and endogenic forces? What is erosion? How are flood plains formed? What are sand dunes? How are the beaches formed? What are the ox-bow lakes? Answer: Plates move due to the movement in the molten magma […]
Chapter 2 Inside Our Earth
Chapter 2 Inside Our Earth Question 1.Answer the following questions briefly. What are the three layers of the earth? What is a rock? Name three types of rocks. How are extrusive and intrusive rocks formed? What do you mean by a rock cycle? What are the uses of rocks? What are metamorphic rocks? Answer: Three […]
Chapter 1 Environment
Chapter 1 Environment Question 1.Answer the following questions briefly. What is an ecosystem? What do you mean by the natural environment? Which are the major components of the environment? Give four examples of a human-made environment. What is the lithosphere? Which are the two major components of the biotic environment? What is the biosphere? Answer: […]
Poem 9 Garden Snake
Poem 9 Garden Snake Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (Page – 137) Question 1. Answer the following questions : (i) Pick out the line that suggests that the child is afraid of snakes. (ii) Which line shows a complete change of the child’s attitude towards snakes? Read it aloud. (iii) But […]
Poem 8 Meadow Surprises
Poem 8 Meadow Surprises Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (Page 124) Question 1. Read the lines in which the following phrases occur. Then discuss with your partner the meaning of each phrase in its context. (i) velvet grass (ii) drinking straws (iii) meadow houses (iv) amazing mound (v) fuzzy head. Answer: […]
Poem 7 Dad and the Cat and the Tree
Poem 7 Dad and the Cat and the Tree Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (Page – 110) Question 1. Why was Dad sure he wouldn’t fall ? Answer: Dad thought himself as a great climber. That is why he was sure that he would not fall. Question 2. Which phrase in […]
Poem 6 Mystery of the Talking Fan
Poem 6 Mystery of the Talking Fan Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (Page – 97) Question 1. Fans don’t talk, but it is possible to imagine that they do. What is it, then, that sounds like the fan’s chatter ? Answer: When the motor of the fan is not oiled, a […]
Poem 5 Trees
Poem 5 Trees Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (Page 84) Question 1. What are the games or human activities which use trees, or in which trees also “participate’? Answer: We can play many games by using trees. We can swing swings on tree. One can hide behind a tree while playing […]
Poem 4 Chivvy
Poem 4 Chivvy Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (Page 70) Question 1. Discuss these questions in small groups before you answer them. (i) When is a grown-up likely to say this? Don’t talk with your mouth full. Answer: A grown up is likely to say this when a child is 2 […]
Poem 3 The Shed
Poem 3 The Shed Text Book Questions and Answers Working with the poem (Page-49) Question 1. Answer the following questions : (i) Who is the speaker in the poem ? Answer: The poet is the speaker. (ii) Is she/he afraid or curious, or both ? Answer: He is both afraid and curious as he wants […]