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Class 4 The World Around Us — A walk in the forest

Name what makes four forest animals easy to tell apart, count the parts that make a small creature an insect, and play out how a web of connections falls apart when one strand goes.

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Before you start

A leaf, close up: its blade, its veins and the stalk it hangs by.

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  1. 1. The veins
  2. 2. The stalk
  3. 3. The leaf's edge

The pale lines running out through a leaf are its veins, and different plants arrange them differently — some spread out like this one, others run side by side down the length of the leaf. Rub a crayon over paper laid on a leaf and the pattern comes up like magic.

  1. 1.The Spectacled Monkey is a state animal. Of which state?

    • a) Odisha
    • b) Kerala
    • c) Tripura
    • d) Gujarat

  2. 2.The forest's printed rules list things a visitor should not bring in. Which of these is on that list?

    • a) Drinking water
    • b) Walking shoes
    • c) Polythene bags
    • d) A notebook and pencil

  3. 3.In which state is Pachmarhi, where the class went on its nature trail?

    • a) Madhya Pradesh
    • b) Karnataka
    • c) Rajasthan
    • d) Assam

  4. 4.Tap the pair of feelers this insect uses to sense what is around it.

    Write the number of the part.

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  5. 5.In the game, one player is taken out of the web and the others watch what happens. What does the game show?

    • a) That plants matter to the web but animals do not
    • b) That the strongest animal holds the web together by itself
    • c) That everything in nature is connected, because the web weakens or collapses
    • d) That a web mends itself as soon as a strand is lost

  6. 6.Which list gives insects the chapter says you will find in the forest?

    • a) Frogs, lizards, snakes and turtles
    • b) Spiders, scorpions, snails and worms
    • c) Sparrows, owls, eagles and hornbills
    • d) Ants, beetles, bees, flies, praying mantises and butterflies

  7. 7.Abha Didi is a nature scientist. What does the chapter say a nature scientist does?

    • a) Draws maps of forests
    • b) Plants new trees where a forest has been cut
    • c) Looks after injured animals in a zoo
    • d) Studies plants and animals

  8. 8.Some insects, such as flies and grasshoppers, have wings. How many pairs does the chapter say they have?

    • a) Four pairs
    • b) One pair
    • c) Three pairs
    • d) Two pairs

Answer key — Class 4 The World Around Us — A walk in the forest

  1. 1. c) Tripura
  2. 2. c) Polythene bags
  3. 3. a) Madhya Pradesh
  4. 4. 1 — The antennae
  5. 5. c) That everything in nature is connected, because the web weakens or collapses
  6. 6. d) Ants, beetles, bees, flies, praying mantises and butterflies
  7. 7. d) Studies plants and animals
  8. 8. d) Two pairs