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प्रश्न
Look at some plants and trees around you. Imagine how deep and spread out the roots of these are?
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उत्तर
The roots of plants are two inches to ten inches deep, while the roots of a tree are five feet to ten feet deep. Also, the roots of some trees go as deep as 50 feet into the earth.
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Why do you think the neem tree did not fall despite the strong wind?
On putting water in the soil where the plants are growing, the dropping leaves become fresh again. How?
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Abdul realised that he never watered the huge neem tree. “Where did it get its water from?” he thought.
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Nowadays Abdul keeps thinking about all kinds of plants that he sees.
Abdul saw a plant growing out of a wall in school. He wondered-
- How deep must the roots of this plant be going?
- How do the roots get water?
- How big will this plant grow?
- What will happen to the wall?
- Can you give the name of the plant in the picture?
Abdul saw a huge tree that had fallen on the roadside. He remembered the neem tree in his courtyard. He could see some of its broken roots. Abdul thought–
- Would someone have uprooted such a big tree or would it have fallen on its own?
- How old would this tree be?
- Abdul on seeing a tree surrounded by cemented ground, thought that how will it get rain water?
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- Find out from your elders how old the trees are?
- Name animals who live on this tree.
- Have you ever seen any big tree that had fallen down? What did you think when you saw it?
Think about yourself – in what ways have you changed over a period of time? Have you grown in any way? For example –
- Has your height increased? How much taller have you grown in the last one year?
- Imagine that you had never cut your nails! Draw a picture of your fingers in the notebook to show how they would have looked.
- What other part of your body (some people cut it regularly) keeps growing?
