Chapter Notes - Reaching Grandmother House - Notes | Study EVS for Class 4 - Class 4

Bus Conductor

• A person who collects money from passengers and issues tickets to them.
• Also controls and directs the bus.
• Wore a prescribed uniform.
• Sits at the back and can be recognised with his whistle.
• His pay is very small.
• He holds bundle of tickets , or a ticket machine or a green bag.

Crowd

• A CROWD is a gathering of people who are in the same place
• There is a fine line in labeling a group of people as a crowd.
• There needs to be a focal point or some reason to draw people together;
• crowds usually have a sense of urgency.
• Behaviour of crowd can be changed as per situation. 
• Mob can also means crowd.

Ferry

• Ferry is a boat or ship that is used to take people, vehicles or goods across large bodies of water, such as seas, lakes and rivers.
• ferries are very important for public transport.
• Sometimes the trip in a ferry is free and sometimes it must be paid 
• Many ferries also carry cars, some even have own rail tracks
• A large group of people can travel at the same time through ferry.

Transport

• People move from one place to another by different modes of transport depending on the distance to be covered, time and money.
• There are four modes of transport available to us. They are:-
  1. Roadways 
     • Roads help us to move around within cities and towns.
     • India has largest network of roads. The state capitals and important cities are connected to each other by national highways
  2. Railways
     • railways transport new materials to the production units and finished goods to the markets.
     • help in reducing sufferings during natural calamities.
     • facilitate easy movement of police, troops and defend equipment.
  3. Airways
     • Airports are built to operate the aeroplanes.
     • The passenger airplanes have approx 100 to 800 passenger according to their capacity and sizes.
  4. Waterways
     • Water transport requires less maintenance, thus a convenient mode of travelling.
     • Inland transport and oceanic transport are the two types of water transport.