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Class 3 The World Around Us — Water — a precious gift

Follow rainwater from the sky to the tap: where it goes when it lands, how it reaches a home, what it is stored in, and what happens to it afterwards.

Name: ________________________

Before you start

Where rainwater ends up, above the ground and below it.

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  1. 1. Rain
  2. 2. Stream
  3. 3. Well
  4. 4. Water underground

The brown band is the soil and the blue band beneath it is water the rain has left underground. Notice that the well is a shaft reaching down through the one to touch the other.

  1. 1.Water we have washed with becomes dirty. What does the chapter say we can still use it for?

    • a) Drinking, after it has been stored a day
    • b) Nothing — it has to be thrown away
    • c) Cooking, once it has settled
    • d) Watering plants or flushing toilets

  2. 2.The chapter pictures the vessels people store water in. Sort them by what they are made of.

    Groups: Clay · Metal · Plastic

    • Copper vessel
    • Clay pot
    • Steel pot
    • Surahi
    • Plastic bucket

  3. 3.Where does the chapter say the water in a well comes from?

    • a) Rain that falls straight into the open mouth of the well
    • b) A tank buried beside it and filled by hand
    • c) Water stored underground between the rocks and the soil
    • d) A pipe laid from the nearest river

  4. 4.The chapter sums up the whole journey in five stages. Put them in order.

    • We store it in many ways
    • We bring the water to our homes
    • It fills up streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and wells
    • We use it in many ways
    • Rain comes down to the earth

  5. 5.Surya and Barkha followed the pipes from their taps and found the water was coming from something on the roof. What was it?

  6. 6.Why does the chapter say people learned to make containers and vessels for water long ago?

    • a) Because rain fell more heavily than it does now
    • b) Because they wanted to decorate their homes
    • c) Because wells had not been invented
    • d) Because there were no pipes or taps anywhere then

  7. 7.Water flowing along in a stream later joins something bigger. What?

    • a) A river
    • b) A cloud
    • c) A well
    • d) A puddle

  8. 8.The birdbath activity asks you to put stones in the shallow bowl. What are they for?

    • a) To make the water taste better
    • b) To keep the bowl from blowing away
    • c) For the birds to perch on while they drink
    • d) To stop the water from drying up

Answer key — Class 3 The World Around Us — Water — a precious gift

  1. 1. d) Watering plants or flushing toilets
  2. 2. Surahi → Clay; Clay pot → Clay; Copper vessel → Metal; Steel pot → Metal; Plastic bucket → Plastic
  3. 3. c) Water stored underground between the rocks and the soil
  4. 4. 1. Rain comes down to the earth 2. It fills up streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and wells 3. We bring the water to our homes 4. We store it in many ways 5. We use it in many ways
  5. 5.
    • a tank
    • tank
    • water tank
  6. 6. d) Because there were no pipes or taps anywhere then
  7. 7. a) A river
  8. 8. c) For the birds to perch on while they drink