Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) कक्षा ५ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Environmental Studies

Do you know of anyone who works to save forests?

What is your dream? What will you do to make your dream come true?

Collect reports about forests from newspapers. Did you find any news about how the cutting down of forests affects the weather? How?

In ‘Torang’ Suryamani does a lot to keep the Kuduk music, dance, and traditions alive. Would you like to do something like this for your community? What would you like to keep alive?

Sikhya, a Class X girl in Odisha, wrote a letter to the Chief Minister. Read a part of the letter.

Is there any factory or some construction work going on in and around your area? What type of work?

Let us see the different ways in which people manage water today. See the picture give below and discuss.

Do you get water in your house in any of these ways? Put a tick (✓) on that. If you get water in some other way, write in your notebook. 

Due to the factory is there any effect on the trees and land? Have the people in that area raised this issue?

• What all is shown on the map?
• You have read Sikhya’s letter. Look for Orissa on the map.
• Is there a sea close to Orissa How did you find out?
• Which are the states which have the sea on one side?
• Where is Suryamani’s state Jharkhand on the map?
• Where are forests on the map? How will you find these?
• How can you find out which states have very thick forests and which have less thick forests?
• For someone in Madhya Pradesh, in which direction would the country’s thickest forests are? Name those states.

Make a poster: Do you remember the slogan – “Water on earth is for one and all.” Think of some other such slogans.

Draw pictures and make a nice poster.

Bring a water bill, look at it and tell -

How much money is to be paid for this bill?

Which are the states around Mizoram?

Bring a water bill, look at it and tell -

What else can you see in the bill, like the money spent on repair, maintenance, etc.? 

Chamui said they measure land using tin. Which are the other ways of measuring land?

Returning from school, children drank water in a bamboo cup. Who do you think would have made this cup and kept it in the forest? Why?

What is similar and what is different between jhoom farming and Bhaskerbhai’s way of farming?

Explain in your own words why forests are important for the people living in forests?

Did you find something interesting in jhoom farming? What is it?

Ashima sneezed just like her father. Do you have any such habit or trait which is similar to that of someone in your family? What is it? Whom is it similar to?

Does your face or anything else look similar to that of someone else in your family? What is it?