Class 5 The World Around Us

1. 1.Water rises as vapour, gathers as cloud, falls again and runs back to the sea, over and over. What two-word name does this circular movement have?

2. 2.A village digs wells, borewells, tube wells and handpumps. What are these for?

   • a) Carrying rainwater away from the fields
   • b) Holding water back to form a lake
   • c) Making salty water fit for drinking
   • d) Drawing up water stored under the ground

3. 3.Where does a river usually begin its journey?

   • a) In a well dug into the ground
   • b) In the middle of a desert
   • c) Out at sea, where it turns towards the land
   • d) High up in the mountains

4. 4.The water cycle goes round and round with no true beginning, so start it where the Sun's heat turns water into vapour and put the stages in order from there.

   • The vapour forms clouds
   • Water goes back to rivers, lakes and oceans
   • Rain, snow and hail come down
   • The Sun's heat turns water into vapour

5. 5.Rain is falling on this piece of land. Tap the groundwater — the water that has sunk down and is stored deep below the surface.

   Write the number of the part.

6. 6.Rain soaks into the soil and sinks down through soil and rock until it is stored deep below. What is that stored water called?

7. 7.A fish and a pond heron live at the same pond. What does the fish have that moves it through the water?

   • a) A soft shell
   • b) Long legs
   • c) A tail tube for breathing
   • d) Fins

8. 8.Why can the greater part of the water on Earth not be used for drinking?

   • a) Most of it is frozen into ice caps
   • b) Most of it is salty sea water
   • c) Most of it is held inside plants and animals
   • d) Most of it is stored too deep underground

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1. 1.Match each kind of river to how it behaves through the year.

   • A perennial river
   • A seasonal river

   • Flows in the rainy season
   • Flows through the whole year

2. 2.As it reaches the sea a river stops being one channel and fans out into many small streams. What is that fan of streams called?

3. 3.A village is moved and a stretch of forest goes under water when a new dam is built. Why does that happen?

   • a) The river changes direction and runs the other way
   • b) The stored water floods the land that was there before
   • c) The reservoir water is too salty for trees to live in
   • d) The dam wall needs the stones the village was built from

4. 4.What does the chapter say a dam is?

   • a) A net stretched across a river to catch waste
   • b) A deep channel dug to carry a river to a new place
   • c) A bridge built so people can cross a river safely
   • d) A giant wall that blocks a river's flow and stores water behind it

5. 5.Small streams keep joining a river as it crosses the land, making it wider and stronger. What are those joining streams called?

6. 6.Disha stirs a spoon of sugar into one glass of water and a spoon of cooking oil into another, and stirs both well. Which glass looks clear afterwards?

   • a) Both of them, because stirring makes anything dissolve
   • b) The one with cooking oil, because oil dissolves in water
   • c) The one with sugar, because sugar dissolves in water
   • d) Neither of them, because water in a glass stays cloudy

7. 7.A dam has been built across this river. Tap the reservoir — the large water body the dam is holding back.

   Write the number of the part.

8. 8.Why is the Godavari called Dakshina Ganga?

   • a) Because it begins at the same place as the Ganga
   • b) Because it flows through southern India and is regarded as sacred
   • c) Because it is longer than the Ganga
   • d) Because its water is carried north to join the Ganga

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1. 1.Disha's mother mixes idli batter and leaves it out, and by morning it has risen and gone fluffy. What did that?

   • a) The warmth of the vessel it stood in
   • b) The water added while grinding it
   • c) Microbes from the air
   • d) The salt stirred into the batter

2. 2.Sort each way of keeping food by which of the microbes' three needs it takes away.

   Groups: Takes the moisture away · Keeps the air out · Keeps the food cold

   • Drying tomato slices on a sunny windowsill
   • Pouring mustard oil over a jar of pickle
   • Keeping milk and butter in a fridge
   • Drying chillies on a mat in the sun
   • Sealing juice into air tight cans at a factory

3. 3.Ghee is being made at home. Put the four steps in the order they happen.

   • Ghee is prepared
   • Water evaporates
   • Water separates from the butter
   • Heat butter

4. 4.Match each group of teeth to the job it does on your food.

   • Incisors
   • Canines
   • Premolars
   • Molars

   • to grind
   • to cut
   • to tear
   • to crush

5. 5.Why can we see mould on a spoiled uttapam when a single microbe is far too small to see?

   • a) Mould is not a microbe but a tiny plant
   • b) Mould gives off a colour that spreads over the food
   • c) Mould grows much larger than other microbes do
   • d) Mould is a colony of thousands of microbes together

6. 6.Aditya has an upset stomach and is given curd. How does the curd help?

   • a) Its small microbes join the good microbes in the stomach and help digestion
   • b) It coats the stomach and keeps food from touching it
   • c) It has no microbes in it, so the stomach can rest
   • d) It is cold, so it slows the stomach down

7. 7.Match each food to what it is preserved to make.

   • Roti
   • Mango
   • Lemon
   • Butter
   • Chillies
   • Fish

   • Lemon pickle
   • Ghee
   • Dried fish
   • Khakhra
   • Chilli powder
   • Aam papad

8. 8.Which three things do microbes need in order to grow?

   • a) Moisture, sunlight and a container
   • b) Moisture, air and the right temperature
   • c) Sugar, oil and cold
   • d) Sunlight, soil and salt

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1. 1.Besides shade, what else does the chapter say the trees on a school campus do?

   • a) Draw water out of the ground so the field stays dry
   • b) Stop the wind from reaching the classrooms
   • c) Make the soil harder so the playground stays flat
   • d) Keep the air clean, feed birds and insects, and cool the surroundings

2. 2.The class wants the school to make less waste in the first place. What does the chapter say does that?

   • a) Putting a bigger dustbin in each classroom
   • b) Buying larger packets so there are fewer wrappers to count
   • c) Using what we need, reusing things and not throwing away useful items
   • d) Burning the waste at the end of each day on the school grounds

3. 3.Match each School Explorer team to what it went round the school to look at.

   • Water Watchers
   • Electricity Savers
   • Waste Warriors
   • Green Guardians
   • Traffic Trackers

   • Lights and fans left on
   • Trees, plants and the compost pit
   • Litter and dustbins
   • Leaking taps and wasted water
   • The road outside the school gate

4. 4.The school is having a fire drill. Sort each of these into what you should do and what you should not.

   Groups: What to do · What not to do

   • Move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit route
   • Go to the assembly point and stay with your group
   • Crawl low under smoke with your mouth covered
   • Hide in a bathroom until it is over
   • Go back inside for a forgotten bag
   • Run for the door as fast as you can

5. 5.Why does the school keep old newspapers out of both the wet and the dry bin?

   • a) They are burnt at the end of each week instead
   • b) They are set aside to be given to the recyclers
   • c) They are kept because paper cannot be thrown away by law
   • d) They go into the wet bin once they have been counted

6. 6.The chapter gives one main reason why so many accidents happen on the roads. What is it?

   • a) People do not follow the traffic rules correctly
   • b) Drivers cannot see the signboards at night
   • c) Schools let children out at the same time each day
   • d) There are too few roads for the number of vehicles

7. 7.Match each kind of waste to the colour its box is labelled with in the segregation game.

   • Wet waste
   • Dry waste

   • Blue
   • Green

8. 8.Aasha's brother describes a green school. Which of these is what he said it does?

   • a) Keeps the school gate shut so no waste can come in from the road
   • b) Paints its walls and gates green and puts plants in each corner
   • c) Grows the food its own canteen serves and sells the rest
   • d) Manages its waste, saves water, uses electricity carefully and plants trees

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1. 1.Match each part of the National Flag to what it stands for.

   • Saffron band
   • White band
   • Ashoka Chakra
   • Green band

   • Peace and truth
   • Duty
   • Growth and prosperity
   • Strength and courage

2. 2.On what date did India become independent?

   • a) 26 January 1950
   • b) 26 January 1947
   • c) 15 August 1950
   • d) 15 August 1947

3. 3.Another riddle: I dance in the rain in the morning light, with green and blue feathers bright, and a crown upon my head. I am the national bird of India — which bird am I?

4. 4.How many languages does the chapter say are spoken across India?

   • a) Fewer than fifty
   • b) Exactly twenty-two
   • c) About a hundred
   • d) More than a thousand

5. 5.Put the four steps of the school's Republic Day flag ceremony in the order they happen.

   • The folded tricolour unfurls
   • The head teacher pulls the rope
   • Everyone gathers round the flagpole in lines
   • Everyone sings the National Anthem

6. 6.Besides protecting the head, what else can headgear tell you about a person, according to the chapter?

   • a) Whether they travel by road or by rail
   • b) Where they are from, what they believe in, or what they do for a living
   • c) Which language they speak at home
   • d) How old they are and which school they went to

7. 7.Why is 26 January celebrated as Republic Day?

   • a) On that date in 1947 India became independent
   • b) On that date the National Flag was designed
   • c) On that date the first Republic Day parade was held in Delhi
   • d) On that date in 1950 India decided to follow its Constitution

8. 8.What is the National Emblem of India?

   • a) Three lions standing on a circular platform
   • b) A tiger walking through a forest
   • c) A peacock with its tail spread wide
   • d) A wheel with twenty-four spokes on its own

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1. 1.A dam was once planned at Silent Valley. What happened to it?

   • a) The plan was dropped because the river ran dry
   • b) Villagers, students and scientists joined together and stopped it
   • c) It was moved a little further down the same river
   • d) It was built, and the valley is now a reservoir

2. 2.Match each thing the chapter mentions in its margins to the state it comes from.

   • Apatani rice-and-fish fields
   • Warli painting
   • Coir craft from coconut husk
   • India's first organic state

   • Maharashtra
   • Sikkim
   • Kerala
   • Arunachal Pradesh

3. 3.Why do the Andaman wood pigeon and the lion-tailed macaque count as signs of a nature's hotspot?

   • a) Each of them was brought there from another country
   • b) Each of them is found in its own place and nowhere else in the world
   • c) Each of them is the largest animal of its kind
   • d) Each of them lives in a protected area rather than a forest

4. 4.Which states make up Northeast India?

   • a) Sikkim and the two states on either side of it
   • b) Each state that shares a border with the sea in the east
   • c) The seven states called the Seven Sisters, and no others
   • d) The seven states called the Seven Sisters, along with Sikkim

5. 5.What is Bhut Jolokia, the ghost pepper of the Northeast, used for besides pickles and chutneys?

   • a) Feeding the fish grown in the rice fields
   • b) Keeping food from spoiling in the rains
   • c) Colouring cloth a deep red
   • d) Keeping elephants away from the crops

6. 6.Shanti thought the southernmost tip of India was Kanyakumari, and her father said no. What is the difference between the two places?

   • a) Kanyakumari is further south, but Indira Point is easier to reach
   • b) They are two names for the same place
   • c) Indira Point is the southernmost point of the mainland; Kanyakumari is on an island
   • d) Kanyakumari is the southernmost point of the mainland; Indira Point is the southernmost tip of the country

7. 7.The chapter defines a word: a land that has water round it on each of its sides. What is that word?

8. 8.Sort each of these into the place on Shanti's journey where it belongs.

   Groups: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands · The Sundarbans · The Western Ghats

   • Silent Valley National Park
   • The Andaman hornbill
   • Sri Vijaya Puram
   • The lion-tailed macaque
   • Mangrove trees
   • Indira Point
   • Where the Ganga meets the sea

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1. 1.What does energy efficiency mean?

   • a) Using less energy to do the same work
   • b) Making energy at home rather than buying it
   • c) Using energy from the Sun rather than from coal
   • d) Storing energy so it can be used later

2. 2.Match each machine to the natural source of energy it draws on.

   • Solar panels
   • Windmills
   • Gharaats, the watermills of the hills

   • Wind
   • Sunlight
   • Flowing water

3. 3.Two cups of water are filled at the same time, one left in the sunlight and one in the shade. Twenty minutes later the sunlit one is warmer. What does that show?

   • a) A cup in the sun holds less water than one in the shade
   • b) Water in the shade loses its heat to the ground
   • c) Sunlight gives us heat energy
   • d) Water is cooler when it is kept still

4. 4.A dog runs, a bird flies, and you walk to school. Where does the energy for each of the three come from?

   • a) The warmth of the ground
   • b) Food
   • c) Sunlight falling on them
   • d) The air they breathe

5. 5.Rubber bands are stretched round a cardboard box and plucked. What kind of energy does the chapter say this shows?

   • a) Heat energy
   • b) Sound energy
   • c) Light energy
   • d) Stored energy

6. 6.This house draws on three natural sources of energy. Tap the one that works because the wind is blowing.

   Write the number of the part.

7. 7.Electricity made from the wind, from water or from the Sun leaves behind no smoke and no waste. What two-word name does the chapter give it?

8. 8.You blow up a balloon, hold the neck tight, then let go. The balloon shoots forward. What pushed it?

   • a) Your hand as you released the neck
   • b) The rubber shrinking back to its old size
   • c) The air rushing out of it
   • d) The air in the room pressing on the outside

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1. 1.What is bandhani?

   • a) A cloth woven with gold thread along its border
   • b) A tie-dye in which small parts of the cloth are tied and dyed to make dots and circles
   • c) An embroidery worked with a needle and coloured thread
   • d) A quilt made by joining small leftover pieces together

2. 2.Traditional weaving is done by hand on an instrument, and cloth made that way takes its name from it. What is the instrument called?

3. 3.Fibres from a ball of cotton are twisted together until they hold as one thread. What is that twisting called?

4. 4.Match each embroidery to the place the chapter says it originated from.

   • Chikankari
   • Kantha
   • Phulkari
   • Toda
   • Kashmiri
   • Khneng

   • Tamil Nadu
   • Kashmir
   • West Bengal, Odisha and Tripura
   • Punjab
   • Meghalaya
   • Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

5. 5.A life cycle comes round again, so begin where the silk moth lays eggs and put the rest of the stages in order from there.

   • The caterpillars spin cocoons around themselves
   • The eggs hatch into tiny caterpillars
   • The caterpillars eat mulberry leaves and grow big
   • An adult moth comes out of the cocoon
   • The silk moth lays eggs

6. 6.Sort each fibre into the group the chapter puts it in.

   Groups: Natural fibres · Synthetic fibres

   • Nylon
   • Cotton
   • Polyester
   • Wool
   • Terylene
   • Bamboo
   • Linen
   • Silk
   • Rayon

7. 7.Where does silk come from?

   • a) The soft inner bark of the mulberry tree
   • b) The fine hair of a goat found in cold mountains
   • c) A plant grown for its long shiny fibres
   • d) The cocoon of a small insect called the silk moth

8. 8.Match each handloom tradition to where it comes from.

   • Kanjeevaram
   • Pashmina
   • Ikat

   • Odisha and Gujarat
   • Kashmir
   • Tamil Nadu

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1. 1.What is a season, as this chapter defines it?

   • a) A stretch of months in which the weather does not change
   • b) The time between one harvest and the next
   • c) A change in the weather that happens once and does not return
   • d) A pattern of change in nature that repeats itself year after year

2. 2.Match seas and oceans to how the chapter tells them apart.

   • Seas
   • Oceans

   • Usually smaller, and partly enclosed by land
   • Vast and open water bodies

3. 3.You see a line of ants carrying their eggs to higher ground. What is that a natural sign of?

   • a) The dry season has begun
   • b) A cold spell is on the way
   • c) The nest has grown too large
   • d) Rain is coming soon

4. 4.Why do farmers grow different crops in different seasons?

   • a) Seeds are sold at just a few times of the year
   • b) Some crops grow best in the cold, some in the heat, and some need the rains
   • c) Fields have to be rested between one crop and the next
   • d) The same crop cannot be planted twice in one field

5. 5.Dong in Arunachal Pradesh is known as India's First Village of the Sunrise. Why?

   • a) It was the first village in India to be given electricity
   • b) It is the first place where the Sun's rays touch Indian land each morning
   • c) It is the highest village in India, so it sees the Sun first
   • d) Its people hold a sunrise festival at the start of each year

6. 6.Watch the Sun through a whole day. Which way does it appear to travel across the sky?

   • a) It seems to rise in the north and set in the south
   • b) It seems to rise in the east and set in the west
   • c) It seems to rise in the west and set in the east
   • d) It seems to stay overhead and simply grow dimmer

7. 7.Match each Indian season name to the season it names.

   • Vasanta
   • Grishma
   • Varsha
   • Sharad
   • Hemant
   • Shishir

   • Monsoon
   • Spring
   • Summer
   • Pre-winter
   • Autumn
   • Winter

8. 8.The seasons come round year after year with no true beginning, so begin at Vasanta and put the six in the order the chapter lists them.

   • Hemant
   • Shishir
   • Sharad
   • Varsha
   • Vasanta
   • Grishma

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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

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