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Class 5 The World Around Us — Earth — our shared home

Say what the Earth looks like from space, and trace the birds, foods and ideas that have travelled into this country and out of it.

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  1. 1.Why are farmers glad to see the rosy starlings arrive each winter?

    • a) The birds nest in the crops and keep other birds away
    • b) The birds eat the locusts and grasshoppers that are pests on the crops
    • c) The birds arrive with the first rains and water the fields
    • d) The birds carry seeds from one field into the next

  2. 2.What did people in India write on before paper came here from China?

    • a) Cotton cloth and silk
    • b) Dried leather sheets
    • c) Clay tablets and stone
    • d) Palm leaves and bark

  3. 3.What does the saying Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam mean?

    • a) The world is one family
    • b) Nature gives before it takes
    • c) The Earth is our garden
    • d) Many rivers, one sea

  4. 4.What can be seen of the Earth from high up in space, and what cannot?

    • a) Cities show as bright patches; the land masses are hidden under cloud
    • b) The broad shapes of land and sea show; a city or a village is too small to pick out
    • c) Nothing shows except cloud, which covers the whole planet
    • d) The borders between countries show; the seas run together and cannot be told apart

  5. 5.Where was the method of making jaggery from sugarcane juice first discovered?

    • a) In Brazil, and Portuguese traders brought it to India
    • b) In China, and it came to India along the same route as paper
    • c) In Mexico, and it travelled with the marigold
    • d) In India, and the knowledge spread outwards through trade and travel

  6. 6.What is DIGIPIN?

    • a) A map of India divided into ten numbered parts
    • b) A list of the pin codes used by post offices
    • c) A machine that prints addresses onto parcels
    • d) A 10-character digital code that gives each small place in India its own address

  7. 7.What did Portuguese traders take to Brazil, which changed that country's farms for good?

    • a) Indian rice seed
    • b) Indian mango trees
    • c) Indian cotton cloth
    • d) Indian cows

  8. 8.Why were pepper and cardamom from India called 'black gold' by traders?

    • a) They were used to colour cloth a deep gold
    • b) They were worth their weight in gold coins by law
    • c) They were prized enough that traders travelled far to get them
    • d) They were sold in bags sealed with gold thread

Answer key — Class 5 The World Around Us — Earth — our shared home

  1. 1. b) The birds eat the locusts and grasshoppers that are pests on the crops
  2. 2. d) Palm leaves and bark
  3. 3. a) The world is one family
  4. 4. b) The broad shapes of land and sea show; a city or a village is too small to pick out
  5. 5. d) In India, and the knowledge spread outwards through trade and travel
  6. 6. d) A 10-character digital code that gives each small place in India its own address
  7. 7. d) Indian cows
  8. 8. c) They were prized enough that traders travelled far to get them