Test: Houses We live In- 1

• Pucca homes are typically made of concrete, stone, clay tiles and/or metal, in contrast to older homes made of mud and organic material.
• These building methods are more costly and labor-intensive than the more traditional building methods.

• A caravan is house on wheels or mobile house.
• A mobile home (also static caravan, caravan, trailer, trailer home, house trailer) is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site.

A house protects us from Sun, wind, animals etc.

• Houseboats are a unique transformation of a simple concept of the house on the water.
• Houseboats are floating house on water bodies like a lake. They vary in size, some are small and some are big.

A nomad is someone with no permanent home, they move from place to place in search of food etc.

Nomads move from one place to another and live in tents.

• A hut is a kutcha, temporary house.
• Some people live at one place for a very short time.
• They build houses that can be moved from one place to another.

• Sloping roofs are standard on all houses because water drains on a sloping roof better than it does on a flat roof. But, commonly, we see houses with sloping roofs in hilly areas.
• These includes state like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, etc.

• Temporary housing means unoccupied habitable dwellings, suitable rental housing, mobile homes, or other readily fabricated dwellings.
• Temporary houses include caravan, houseboat and tents.

• Windows of our houses is/are made up of wood, glass and steel
• Most commonly, windows are made from Ponderosa pine or Douglas fir, but they may also be white pine, redwood, cedar, or cypress.