Primary School (English Medium) Class 4 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Environmental Studies

Have you seen any animal riding on another animal? Write its name.

1. The animal which is riding.
2. The animal which gives the ride.

Which animals do we use for riding?

Which animals do we use for carrying loads?

Copy the drawing of the elephant given below in a bigger size on a thick sheet of paper.

• Make small cuts where it says “cut” (✄) in the picture. Be careful not to cut off the part.
• Fold along the dotted lines [……….]
• Fold the part with [////////] pattern and push them underneath.
• Cut out the tail and stick it on.

Your elephant is ready.

• Colour and decorate it.
• Put up an exhibition in the class of all the paper-elephants that you have made.

Look at these pictures and read what these animals are sharing with their friends. Discuss these narratives sensitively in the class.

	The basket is the only home I have. I have forgotten what it is like in the open jungle and fresh air. For me, it is only the basket and the snake charmer!
	You see me in the circus – dancing and jumping through rings of fire. You clap and enjoy. Do you think that I also enjoy all this? If I do not do this I will get no food, only get a beating!
	You have only seen how fast I run. Have you seen my ‘shoes’? Do you know how much pain I get when they fix the horseshoes to my hooves?
	They make us dance and dance and dance. Even if we don’t want to, or we are in pain. That too, with an empty stomach!
	Meow! Meow! Meow! I can just roam around everywhere. Children love me a lot. They pat me and also give me milk.
	Gurtargoo! Gurtargoo! Do you know people specially call out to me to feed me with grain?

You have read what these animals say. Why do you think that some of them are sad?

Look at these pictures and read what these animals are sharing with their friends. Discuss these narratives sensitively in the class.

	The basket is the only home I have. I have forgotten what it is like in the open jungle and fresh air. For me, it is only the basket and the snake charmer!
	You see me in the circus – dancing and jumping through rings of fire. You clap and enjoy. Do you think that I also enjoy all this? If I do not do this I will get no food, only get a beating!
	You have only seen how fast I run. Have you seen my ‘shoes’? Do you know how much pain I get when they fix the horseshoes to my hooves?
	They make us dance and dance and dance. Even if we don’t want to, or we are in pain. That too, with an empty stomach!
	Meow! Meow! Meow! I can just roam around everywhere. Children love me a lot. They pat me and also give me milk.
	Gurtargoo! Gurtargoo! Do you know people specially call out to me to feed me with grain?

How do you think they are different – the monkeys that dance to entertain people and the monkeys that are free?

How many legs does this elephant have?

Is there a place near your house, school or along the road side, where trees have been planted?

Why were trees planted there?

Have you seen anyone taking care of the trees? Who does this?

Have you seen fruits on any of the trees? Who eats these fruits?

Lalita feels that grass and small plants growing near her school wall have not been planted by anyone. Do you know of any place where grass, small plants or trees are growing on their own without being planted by anyone?

Why do you feel they are growing on their own?

Do you remember what the elders of this village used to say?

Do you think we could survive if there were no trees and no animals? Discuss this in your class.

Do you remember that in Class III, you had made a tree your friend? How is your friend now?

Why don’t you make a new friend this year? Have you seen how your friends- the trees, change in some ways, in different months of a year?

Write about any one tree.

1. Does the tree flower?
2. Do the flowers remain on the tree throughout the year?
3. In which month do their leaves fall?
4. Do fruits grow on the tree?
5. In which months do they grow?
6. Have you eaten these fruits?

Why do people hunt?

There are rules against hunting of some animals. People can be punished for hunting. Why do you think there is this punishment?