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Class 5 The World Around Us — Some unique places

Place the islands, the mangroves, the Northeast and the Western Ghats on a journey across India, and say what makes each of them home to living things found nowhere else.

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Before you start

A mangrove standing in the shallow salt water of the Sundarbans, part by part.

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  1. 1. Leaves
  2. 2. The trunk
  3. 3. Roots above the water
  4. 4. The salty water

The thin spikes standing up out of the water are roots, not shoots. Below them, spreading through the mud, the same root system is holding the whole bank of the river in place.

  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

Answer key — Class 5 The World Around Us — Some unique places

  1. 1. b) Villagers, students and scientists joined together and stopped it
  2. 2. Apatani rice-and-fish fields → Arunachal Pradesh; Warli painting → Maharashtra; Coir craft from coconut husk → Kerala; India's first organic state → Sikkim
  3. 3. b) Each of them is found in its own place and nowhere else in the world
  4. 4. d) The seven states called the Seven Sisters, along with Sikkim
  5. 5. d) Keeping elephants away from the crops
  6. 6. d) Kanyakumari is the southernmost point of the mainland; Indira Point is the southernmost tip of the country
  7. 7.
    • island
    • an island
  8. 8. Indira Point → The Andaman and Nicobar Islands; The Andaman hornbill → The Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Sri Vijaya Puram → The Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Mangrove trees → The Sundarbans; Where the Ganga meets the sea → The Sundarbans; The lion-tailed macaque → The Western Ghats; Silent Valley National Park → The Western Ghats