ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

1. Nuclear family refers to -

Answer: Family includes parents and their children.

2. Which country has the maximum number of tube wells in the world?

Answer: India.

3. Which part of the plant evaporates water?

Answer: Stomata.

4. In elbow and knee joints, the bones can move in -

Answer: One direction.

5. Which energy is converted into electrical energy by a solar cell?

Answer: Solar energy.

6. Carrier of Dengue disease is -

Answer: Aedes mosquito.

7. Wildlife week is celebrated on -

Answer: 1st October to 7th October.

8. In which state of matter the distance between molecules is minimum?

Answer: Solid.

9. Maximum amount of gas found in the air is -

Answer: Nitrogen.

10. The biochemical laboratory in the human body is -

Answer: Liver.

11. Which the state of India is known as the 'Tiger state'?

Answer: Madhya Pradesh.

12. habitat of Dog Fish is -

Answer: Sea.

13. Tobacco adduction is caused due to -

Answer: Nicotine.

14. Ozone layer is found in - 

Answer: Stratosphere.

15. Sugar is a form of -

Answer: carbohydrate.

16. The mosquito repellent (coils, mats and liquids) that we generally use in our houses are:

Answer: Insecticides.

17. The young ones of the frog are called - 

Answer: Tadpoles.

18. How many muscles are there in the human body?

Answer: 600

19. A battery or cell converts ____ energy into electrical energy.

Answer: Chemical.

20. We have days and nights because of - 

Answer: Earth's rotation.

21. What plays an important role in the cause of rainfall?

Answer: Both evaporation and condensation.

22. The process of solid changing into liquid upon the supply of heat is called-

Answer: Melting.

23. During summer the earth is - 

Answer: Closer to the Sun.

24. When we exhale, our lungs have to -

Answer: Contract.

25. Paper is mainly made up of -

Answer: bamboo and grass.

26. Which one is non-luminous?

Answer: Star.

27. When some sugar is dissolved in a glass of water, the water level:

Answer: Remains the same.

28. Non-green plants like mushrooms can't make their own food because:

Answer: They lack chlorophyll.

29. The nature of the relationship between condensation and evaporation is -

Answer: They are the opposite.

30. We slip very easily on a wet floor because -

Answer: Water reduces friction.

31. A human body consists of ___ number of bones.

Answer: 206

32. Which is called the powerhouse of the cell?

Answer: Mitochondria.

33. Which is not listed as a wetland in Ramsar Convention?

Answer: Rajsamand Lake.

34. The garden cultivation is studied in -

Answer: Horticulture.

35. In which year Child marriage Prevention Act was passed in India?

Answer: 2006

36. Which is not a characteristic of a family?

Answer: The income of each member is deposited separately.

37. Which stone is not used for flooring in Rajasthan?

Answer: Soapstone.

38. Where is Rajasthan State Chemical Work located?

Answer: Deedwana.

39. In which year was the Consumer Protection Act introduced in India?

Answer: 1986

40. Kedarnath Sanctuary is known for -

Answer: Musk deer.

41. Arctic desert is the other name of -

Answer: Tundra.

42. Mesozoic era is known as the era of -

Answer: Reptiles.

43. The Chernobyl disaster is associated with -

Answer: Nuclear accident.

44. Which farming is a non-forest activity under Forest Conservation Act?

Answer: Tea, rubber, mulberry etc.

45. Which type of resource is 'Geothermal Energy'?

Answer: Non-conventional, renewable.

46. Hydrological cycle is under control of -

Answer: Forest.

47. The place of origin of the Bhagirathi river is -

Answer: Gangotri glacier.

48. Malaria is caused by -

Answer: Plasmodium falciparum.

49. In the villages of Bihar many farmers do bee-keeping and collect honey to earn extra money. The best time to start bee-keeping is -

Answer: October to December.

50. 'Nepenthes' is a plant that traps and eats frogs, insects and even mice. In our country, this plant is found in -

Answer: Meghalaya.

51. One Pashmina shawl is as warm as ___ normal sweaters and ___ hours are taken to weave a plain Pashmina shawl.

Answer: 10; 200

52. The group called Tarun Bharat Sangh is associated with -

Answer: Rebuilding old lakes.

53. Growing the same crop over and over and using so many chemicals makes the soil -

Answer: Barren.

54. For making Madhubani paintings the artists use -

Answer: Coloured paste of powdered rice.

55. Select the diseases caused by mosquitoes -

Answer: Dengue, malaria, chickungunya.

56. What are the characteristics of petroleum?

Answer: Smelly, thick dark coloured oil.

57. Al-Biruni came from a country now called -

Answer: Uzbekistan.

58. A public school has about two to three children with special needs in every class. Some children are physically or mentally challenged. These children study with other children while sitting in the same class. The public school mentioned above follows -

Answer: Inclusive education. 

59. Santa's teacher engages her in a number of group activities such as group discussions, group projects, etc. Which learning dimension is her teacher following?

Answer: Learning as a social activity.

60. A science exhibition was organised in Rohan's school. It was organised with an objective. which in your view is the most appropriate objective?

Answer: Provide a creative channel for learners.

61. An effective teaching-learning will happen in the class when a teacher helps or facilitates to link the knowledge a student has with the new concept to be taught. The objective behind this is to promote -

Answer: Correlation and transfer of knowledge.

62. While doing experiments and practical work, Shyama's performance is the best in her class. She is considered a very creative student/person. so, she is learning concepts by -

Answer: Divergent thinking.

63. Seema learns every lesson very quickly by rote method, whereas Leena understands each lesson after discussion and brainstorming. It denotes the developmental principle of -

Answer: Individual differences. 

64. In co-operative learning, older and more proficient students assist younger and lesser skilled students. this leads to -

Answer: Higher achievement and self-esteem.

65. Dyslexia is associated mainly with difficulties in -

Answer: Reading.

66. The use of poems and story-telling to explain concepts in an EVS class helps to -

Answer: Promote the ability to imagine and explore the nature of the world at the local and global levels.

67. Which is the biggest planet?

Answer: Jupiter.

68. Which is the lowest body of water I the world?

Answer: Dead sea.

69. Which is the largest island sea in the world?

Answer: Mediterranean sea.

70. Which is the highest volcano in the world?

Answer:b Cotopaxi.

71. Name the highest peak in the Indian sub-continent.

Answer: Everest.

72. Which is the largest island in the world?

Answer: Greenland.

73. Which is the world's tallest free-standing structure?

Answer: Guangzhou TV Tower, China.

74. Which is the biggest ocean?

Answer: The Pacific ocean.

75. Which is the largest peninsula in the world?

Answer: India.

76. Which is the largest Archipelago in the world?

Answer: Indonesia.

77. Which is the deepest ocean in the world?

Answer: The Atlantic ocean.

 78. What do you name as the Holy Land?

Answer: Palestine.

79. What does the 17th Parallel line separate?

Answer: South and North Vietnam.

80. Which continent/portion of the world is uninhabited?

Answer: Antarctica.

81. Land of the Golden Fleece is -

Answer: Australia.

82. Which mountains are called the Blue Mountains?

Answer: Nilgiri Mountains.

83. Name the countries which lie on either side of the Durand Line?

Answer: Afghanistan and Pakistan.

84. Which is the largest lake in the world?

Answer: Caspian, Iran.

85. Name the countries which lie on either side of the MacMohan Line?

Answer: India and China.

86. Which is the largest Gulf in the world?

Answer: Gulf of Mexico.

87. Which is the smallest continent in the world?

Answer: Australia.  

88. Which country is called the "Land of Morning Calm?"

Answer: Korea.

89. Which is called the Dark Continent?

Answer: Africa.

90. What does the 38th parallel line separate?

Answer: North Korea from South Korea.

91. The Panama Canal connects -

Answer: The Pacific and the Atlantic ocean.

92. The country that shares the longest border with India is -

Answer: Bangladesh.

93. Which states have a common frontier with Bhutan?

Answer: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim and Paschim Banga.

94. DuncanPassage is situated between -

Answer: South Andaman and little Andaman.

95. Which state has the highest percentage of the scheduled caste population of the state's population?

Answer: Punjab.

96. Lakshadeep islands are the product of -

Answer: Reef formation.

97. Which state does share boundaries with the maximum number of other states of India?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh.

98. Nine-degree channel separates -

Answer: Lakshadeep and Minicoy. 

99. Ten-degree channel is between -

Answer: Little Andaman and Car Nicobar. 

100. Indian Standard Meridian passes through the states of UP, Chhattisgarh -

Answer: Odisha, Andra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

101. Which state has the smallest land area?

Answer: Goa.

102. India is the 7th largest country in the world and it covers a total area of approximately -

Answer: 3200000 sq. km.

103. Which Union Territory of India has the largest size?

Answer: Andaman and Nicobar Island.

104. The two volcanic islands in the Indian territory are -

Answer: Narcondam and Barren.

105. Which state has the largest coastline in India?

Answer: Gujarat.

106. The length of India's coastline is about -

Answer: 7500 km.

107. Jharkhand does not share its boundary with -

Answer: Madhya Pradesh.

108. Which foreign country is the closest to the Andaman islands?

Answer: Myanmar.

108. A teacher uses audio-visual aids and physical activities in her teaching because they -

Answer; Utilize the maximum number of senses to enhance learning.

109. The best way to assess a child at the primary level is to use -

Answer: Portfolio.

110. Which is not a method to teach EVS?

Answer: Explaining through lectures.

111. EVS teacher should -

Answer: Focus exclusively on experiments.

112. Exercises and activities in an EVS textbook should be provided -

Answer: Inbuilt in the topics.

113. The name of the scientist who first peeped into a mosquito stomach and proved that mosquitoes spread malaria and for his research was awarded Nobel Prize in medicine in December 1902 is -

Answer: Ronald Ross.

114. Rajat said to his friend, "I cannot play because I am down with fever. I pass through a cycle of shivering, fever and headache and finally sweating. After my blood test doctor prescribed me a bitter medicine." Rajat might be suffering from -

Answer: Malaria.

115. Who was Al-Biruni?

Answer: A traveller from Uzbekistan who wrote a book which is helpful to know the past of our country.

116. The animals that are awake at night can see objects -

Answer: Only in black and white colours.

117. Inside the petals, in the middle of a flower, we find a thin powdery structure, called -

Answer: Pollen.

118. If you go to Ahmedabad (Gujarat) by train, then at Ahmedabad railway station you will find that most of the vendors are selling -

Answer: Chholay-bhature and lassi.

119. The birds move their neck very often because -

Answer: The birds' eyes are fixed.

120. After diagnosis, a doctor says to a patient that there is less haemoglobin in his blood. What should he eat to make up the deficiency of iron?

Answer: Amla, green leafy vegetables, jaggery.

121. National Curriculum Framework, 2005 strongly recommends that teaching of EVS at the primary stage should primarily aim at -

Answer: Linking classroom learning to life outside the school.

122. What is not consistent with the requirements of EVS curriculum at the primary stage?

Answer: It should equip the learners with knowledge and skills to enter the world of work.

123. Higher priority and space has been given in NCERT textbooks on EVS to -

Answer: Provide opportunities to learners for contemplation and wondering.

124. Kanchipuram is in which state?

Answer: Tamil Nadu.

125. The highest Himalayan peak in India is -

Answer: K-2

126. Which Indian state does not have a common international border with Bangladesh?

Answer: Manipur.

127. Which famous place is nearest to the 'Zero Mile Centre' of India?

Answer: Charminar.

128. Which Indian city will never get the vertical rays of the sun?

Answer: Srinagar.

129. On which island of India is an active volcano found?

Answer: Barren Island.

130. The important fishing area called Grand Bank and Georges Bank are located -

Answer: In North-West Atlantic.

131. Between which pair of lakes is Niagra falls located?

Answer: Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

132. Over 90% of the world's biomass is in -

Answer: Oceans.

133. In which country is the ratio of hydroelectric generation to the total electricity generation highest?

Answer: Norway.

134. Which is not an objective of including poems and stories in EVS textbooks?

Answer: To have a change in routine and monotonous content.

135. Good EVS curriculum should be 'true to the child, true to life and true to the subject.' Which characteristic of the curriculum does not match the above requirements?

Answer: It emphasizes more on terms and definitions.

136. Class V NCERT EVS textbooks include a section 'what we have learnt' at the end of every chapter. It is suggested that answers to questions included in this section should not be assessed in terms of right or wrong. This shift has been done because -

Answer: It helps the teacher to know how children are learning.

137. Experimenting, Exploring, Investigating and Questioning constitute essential elements of active learning of EVS. How a teacher should arrange activities related to the concept of 'Food we should eat' to satisfy the condition for active learning?

Answer: Asks students to collect related information from all possible sources.

138. A good assignment in EVS should primarily aim at -

Answer: Revise the lesson for effective learning.

139. As an EVS teacher, the major objective of organizing a field trip to a zoo should be -

Answer: To provide an active learning experience to students.

140. What is not an objective of the study of EVS in relation to Social Science?

Answer: It should enable children to learn the correct definition of key terms.

141. Kavita wants to emphasise more on social issues like poverty, illiteracy and class-inequalities in an EVS class. Which learning experience will be more effective to achieve this objective?

Answer: Asking the students to undertake group projects to collect and analyse related information.

142. Formative Assessment in EVS at primary stage does not include -

Answer: Grading and ranking of students.

143. Bronze is a mixture of two metals. These two metals are:

Answer: Copper and tin.

144. The coastline formed by the submergence of mountain rides running parallel to the coast is known as -

Answer: Dalmation coast.

145. Name the country which is situated geographically in America but politically a part of Europe?

Answer: Green Land.

146. Which ocean is known as Herring Pond?

Answer: Atlantic ocean/

147. A person of mixed European and Indian blood in Latin America is called a -

Answer: Mestizo.

148. The country which is commonly known as 'The Land of Golden Fleece' is -

Answer: Australia. 

149. Name the country through which both Equator and Tropic of Capricorn pass -

Answer: Brazil.

150. A land-locked country is -

Answer: Zimbabwe.

151. Numerically the largest human race in the world is -

Answer: Caucasoid.

152. The longest inland waterway in the world is -

Answer: Mississippi rive system.

153. Which is the largest freshwater lake in the world?

Answer: Lake Baikal.

154. Which strait has separated Africa from Europe?

Answer: Strait of Gibraltar.

155. Which is the highest waterfall in the world?

Answer: Salt Angel Waterfall.

156. Which is the largest river in the world?

Answer: Amazon.

157. Which is the largest gulf in the world?

Answer: The Gulf of Cambay.

158. When does the highest Spring tides occur?

Answer: At the time of Full Moon or New Moon in association with the equinox.

159. Which strait does connect the African sea and the Bay of Bengal?

Answer: Palk Strait.

160. Name the sea without a coastline.

Answer: Sargasso Sea.

161. Where is the highest waterfall in the world situated?

Answer: Venezuela.

162. Which is the world's largest lake by area?

Answer: Caspian Sea.

163. In the grasslands, trees do not replace the grasses as a part of an ecological succession because of -

Answer: Insects and fungi.

164. What is 'Endemic Species' in wildlife conservation?

Answer: An endangered species that is found in a few restricted areas on the Earth.

165. Give an example of the Biosphere Reserve.

Answer: Gulf of Khambhat.

166. Vultures which used to be very common in the Indian countryside some years ago are rarely seen now-a-days. This is attributed to -

Answer: A drug is used by cattle owners to treat their diseased cattle.

167. When did UNESCO launch a World Wide Programme on man and the biosphere?

Answer: In 1973.

168. 'Desert Oak' is a tree whose roots go deep into the ground till they reach the water. The depth of these roots is nearly 30 times the height of the tree. This tree is found in -

Answer: Australia.

169. Which is the best period for the people of Bihar to start bee-keeping?

Answer: January to March.

170. In Braille script, rows of raised dots are made on thick paper. This script is based on -

Answer: 6 points.

171. Which bird can rotate its neck backwards to a large extent?

Answer: Owl.

172. In which state of our country do people grow eatables such as tapioca and coconut in their countryside and they find food prepared using these to be very tasty?

Answer: Kerala. 

173. Where is the Nokerk Biosphere research reserve located?

Answer: Meghalaya.

174. Which Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park is also known as Top Slip?

Answer: Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park.

175. What is the difference between the antelope's Oryx and Chiru?

Answer: Oryx is adapted to live in hot and arid areas whereas Chiru is adapted to live in steppes and semi-desert areas of cold high mountains.

176. What are the factors that can be threats to the biodiversity of a geographical area?

Answer: Global warming, fragmentation of habitat and invasion of alien species.

177. Chlorofluorocarbons, known as ozone-depleting substances are used -

Answer: In the production of plastic foams, in cleaning certain electronic components and as pressurising agents in aerosol cans.

178. In which protected area in India are local people not allowed to collect and use the biomass?

Answer: National Parks.

179. The increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the air slowly raising the temperature of the atmosphere, because it absorbs -

Answer: The infrared part of the solar radiation.

180. With reference to the food chains in ecosystems, which kind of organism is known as a decomposer organism?

Answer: Fungi.

181. Which is the first National Park established in India?

Answer: Corbett National Park.

182. Which is the largest tiger reserve in India?

Answer: Corbett nation Park.

183. The soil formed by wind dust in and around hot deserts is called -

Answer: Loess soil.

184. Xerophytes represent the class of vegetation found in -

Answer: Semi-arid steppes.

185. What causes rainfall in the Northwestern parts of India during the winter season?

Answer: Western disturbances.

186. A doctor prescribed some medicines to a patient and also suggested him to eat jaggery, amla and more green leafy vegetables. This patient must be suffering from -

Answer: Anaemia.