EVS Chapter 12

EVS Chapter 12

1] Think and tell.
1. What are the major or minor differences between plants and animals?
2. From the following list of animals, pick out those that eat flesh and those that do not.
    Lion, elephants, donkeys, wolf, deer, shark.
3. A tiger eats flesh and so does a vulture. But there is a difference in the feeding habit.
    What is the difference?

2] Answer in brief:
1. What happens to us if we do not get enough food to eat?
2. Why do wild animals come to areas where people live?
3. Why do foxes not hunt a cow even when they enter human settlements.

3] Complete the table:

EVS Chapter 11

EVS Chapter 11

1] Answer the following:
1. What do you fill into a balloon when you blow it?
2. Why do we need air?
3. How do you know that a dog also breathes?
4. For what does a cat need air?

2] Answer in brief:
1. Describe how air escapes in the form of bubbles.

3] Give reason:
1. The amount of water in the fish tank reduces.

4] Define:
1. Inhalation
2. Exhalation
3. Respiration

5] Fill in the blanks:
    (need, air, breathing)
1. As ______________ goes on continuously, a sleeping man's chest can be seen going up
    and down.
2. There is _______________ spread all around us.
3. Like us, all living things have a _______________ for air.

6] True or false?:
1. We can see air all around us.
2. Fish use the air dissolved in water for breathing.

EVS Chapter 18

EVS Chapter 18

1. Answer the following:
(1) What does a family provide?
(2) Who takes care of us when we are ill?
(3) When do members of an extended family come together?
(4) What kinds of activities occur during a festival?
(5) Write a few words on family?

2. Define:
(1) shelter
(2) index

3. Give reasons:
(1) We live in houses.
(2) Birds build nests.
(3) Festivals bring people together.

4. Draw a diagram of a fish.

5. Write a short note on:
(1) Koli Bhaji

EVS Chapter10

EVS Chapter10

1. Answer the following questions:
(1) During the rainy season, why do crisp biscuits become soft?
(2) Why does water become coloured when crystals of potassium permanganate are added
      to it?
(3) When we add jaggery to water and stir it, why does it taste sweet?
(4) The mountain peaks in the Himalayas are always covered with snow and ice. What could
      be the reason? 

2. Define:
(1) transparent (2) opaque (3) water vapour

3. Give reason:
(1) Water when boils reduces in quantity.
(2) Ice cubes put in a glass make it moist.

4. Diagram:
(1) Show ice cubes turn into water.

5. True or false.
(1) Water is transparent.
(2) Pure water looks bluish in colour.
(3) When water is heated a lot, it turns into ice.
(4) Sugar does not dissolve in water.

6. Fill in the blanks with words from the brackets.
    [ shape, transparent, solid, pure ]
(1) ___________ water has no colour, smell or taste.
(2) Water is ____________.
(3) Water does not have a ____________ of its own.
(4) Ice is the _____________ state of water.

EVS Chapter 9

EVS Chapter 9
1. The map shows you the water bodies and landforms in our district. The water bodies are
    shown in the blue. Landforms are shown in different colours. These colours are given
    according to the height of the region.

(1) Write the name of the sea to the west of our district.
(2) Many rivers in the district flow to the west and join the Arabian Sea. Because of this, many creeks are formed. Look at the map and draw a box around the name of the creek.
(3)  Write the name of the mountain in the district.
(4) Find the Ulhas river. Trace its course in a different colour.
(5) The most important sources of water distribution in the district are the lakes. Find them on the map and write their names.

2. Answer in short.
(1) Where does the water in your house come from?
(2) From what do rivers, wells, springs and lakes get water?
(3) What will happen if we do not collect rainwater?

3. Give reasons.
(1) Dams are built across the river.

EVS chapter 8

EVS chapter 8

A. Answer the following questions:
1. In summer, why do we eat plenty of fruits like watermelons and cucumbers?
2. Watch how a pumpkin is cooked. Where does all the water in which it cooks, come from?
3. In which different forms is water present in our bodies?
4. Why do we drink water?
5. Why do cows, buffaloes and goats come to the source of water?
6. How do we know that plants require water?
7. Why is farming not possible without enough water?
8. Why do big cities need more water?
9. From where do the plants in forests get water?

B. Fill in the blanks with words from the brackets.
(bathe, keep, important, thin, seeped, wild)
(1) Water keeps the blood ______________.
(2) Animals ______________ in water.
(3) People take care to provide drinking water for the animals they _____________.
(4) We go near a waterhole in a forest to see _______________ animals.
(5) Water is very _____________ in the lives of people.
(6) Roots of the plants absorb the rainwater that has _______________ into the soil.

EVS Chapter 6

EVS Chapter 6

1. Answer the following questions:

1. Which buildings can be seen in a town?
2. What makes a town famous?
3. Where was Rajguru born?
4. How did Sant Gadgebaba raise social awareness?
5. How was the life of a man in very old times?

2. Fill in the blanks with the correct word:

1. ______________ is known for Fort Raigad.
2. People in a village are dependent on the ______________ market for their daily needs.

3. Write short notes on:

1. Rajguru.
2. Sant Gadgebaba.

EVS Chapter 7

EVS Chapter 7

1. Answer the following questions:

1. Name few things we get from village?
2. Mention the things we get from the city?
3. Mention few things we obtain from factories?
4. What are the things used to communicate?

2. Write short notes on:

1. Means of transport.
2. Dialects.

3. Give reasons:

1. People of urban and rural areas are dependent on each other.

EVS Chapter 5

EVS Chapter 5

A. Answer the following questions in one sentence.

(a) Which instruments are used for measuring time?

(b) How do we divide time in order to understand it?
(c) Write a few lines on hourglass.

B. Match the following

                A                                                        B
(a) What has gone by                                (1) Present                 

(b) What is going on                                  (2) Past
(c) What is yet to come                              (3) Time

                                                                  (4) Future

EVS Chapter4

 EVS Chapter4

1. A box is given below with the east marked in it. Fill in the other directions, too.

2. What do we make use of to determine the east?

3. Which is the direction opposite to the north?

4. Which directions does the magnetic needle show?

5. Read the map using index and the directions. Carry out the activities given
    below.

(1) Write the name of your town in your taluka.
(2) Circle the name of the headquarters of our district.
(3) Draw a box around the names of the talukas adjoining your taluka.
(4) Colour the taluka adjoining Pune and Ahmadnagar districts.
(5) Write in which direction the Arabian Sea is located.

EVS chapter3

EVS chapter 3

A) Answer the following:

1. What material do ants use to make anthills?
2. Some doves and pigeons have left the jungles and have come to live in areas where people live. Some mice have also done so. What could be the reasons for that?
3. In the picture below, match the animals and their shelters?

4. What does the tailor bird use to stitch it's nest?
5. What makes it difficult for animals that eat eggs to reach a weaver bird’s nest?
6. How do birds make their nests soft and warm?
7. Why do mice and rats not enter houses built with cement?
8. Where do bats find shelter besides dark caverns?

B) Fill in the blanks:

(1) The nests of birds are not at all _______________.

(2) The ______________ bird is smaller than the sparrow

(3) Some animals do not make any ________________ to build shelters for themselves.

(4) Tigers, leopards and ______________ live in caves in mountains.

(5) The shelter made for a horse is called a stable.

C) Draw the diagram of weaver bird’s nest.

EVS_chapter2

EVS worchapter 2

A) Answer the following:

1. A beetle is an animal that flies. But is it a bird or an insect?
2. What is common between a fish and a chameleon?
3. Name an animal that has stripes on it's body.
4. Why do people who live in deserts keep camels?
5. Why do people keep sheep?
6. Why do people keep hens?
7. Write the names of animals which run very fast?
8. Write the names of birds that soar high into the sky?
9. Which animals have spots on their body?
10. Which animals have a mane?
11. From which animals do we get milk?
12. Why do we not want mice in our houses?
13. Where do we find fish?
14. Which animals have feathers on their body?
15. How many legs do birds have?

B) Fill in the blanks:
   All crows are _______________. All parrots are _________________. But, cows have different
   colours. They may be black, _________________ or ____________________.

C) True or false?

1. An egret is white.
2. A parrot has scales on his body.
3. A cat is useful for carrying burdens.
4. A house lizard has hair on it's body.
5. A cock does not fly very high.

D) Match the following:

Group A Group B

1. Chameleons Have six legs
2. Kites Creep or crawl
3. Bats              Live in water
4. Butterflies Can fly but are not birds
5. Fish Soar high in the sky

E) Name the following animals:

1. Makes cobwebs.
2. It's colourful.
3. Has a trunk.
4. Runs with great speed.

F) How many legs do each of the following animals have?

1. Snake
2. Eagle
3. Deer
4. House lizard
5. Housefly

EVS_chapter1

EVS worksheet chapter1

1. Draw a picture of a spider’s web.
   Find out why a spider weaves a web.
   Under the picture, write the information.
   
2. Answer the following:
   1) What are the uses of cotton?
   2) What are chappals made from?
   3) If there is a loud noise nearby, what will a sparrow do? What will a stone do?
   4) What does the house lizard eat?
   5) Make a list of things in your house?
   6) Name the animals that feed on mice?
   7) What are the things that we get from our environment?
   8) What help do plants get from the environment?
   9) What makes the soil in the forest fertile?
   
3. Fill in the blanks.
   1) The place of a stone _____________ only if someone picks it up and moves it.
   2) We weave ______________ from cotton, wool and silk.
   3) Leaves ________ _________ trees. They, too, rot and get mixed in the soil.
   
4. True or false?
   1) The seeds of some plants are scattered by the wind.
   2) Plants are non living things.
   3) Sparrows grow by eating insects and food grains.