SSC (English Medium) इयत्ता ५ वी - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

Homo is a Latin word which means ______.

The Neanderthals primarily lived in ______.

Answer the question in one sentence.

Who is said to have first made tools like the hand-axe?

Answer the question in one sentence.

What is heredity?

Give reason for the following.

The Neanderthals became extinct.

Give reason for the following.

Humans could produce subtle and varied types of sounds. 

Read the clues given below and find the words hidden in the box.

• Humans who stood upright.
• A sound that Neanderthals could make.
• Humans who used their hands.
• Homo sapiens sapiens began to grow this in fields.
• Pieces of stone used to make tools.
• It kept Homo erectus warm, although they could not make it.
• A country in which remains of Homo habilis were found.
• A way of preparing food that Neariderthals used.
• A tool made by Homo erectus.
• Homo sapiens could do this to make pictures.
• Humans could use their hands because they learnt to stand on two of these.
• The country in which remains of Neanderthals were first found.
• These were buried with them when Neanderthals died.

How did man use the percussion technique?

What revolution was brought about by Homo sapiens in the tool-making technique?

Archaeological evidence shows that agriculture first began about 11,000 years ago in Israel and ______.

The houses at the beginning of the New Stone Age were made of ______.

What are the three main steps in the process of domesticating a wild animal?

Write about the usefulness of any five domesticated animals.

Which animal is used by the modern police? In what way?

From the chart below, find out the names of the three periods into which ancient objects are classified and use them to match the three classes given below.

1. Stone tools: ______ Age.
2. Copper tools and other copper objects: ______ Age.
3. Iron tools and other iron objects: ______ Age.

Arrange the following in chronological order.

1. Copper
2. Gold
3. Iron

Write about the consequence of the following event.

Discovery of copper

Write a note.

Use of metal.

Answer the question in one sentence.

What is the scientific method?

Answer the question in one sentence.

Of which action is India’s Independence the result?