Class 5 EVS Chapter 19 HOTS Questions - A seed tells a Farmer`s Story

Q1: What would happen if all the farmers were to use only one kind of seed and grow only one kind of crop?
Ans: If all the farmers will grow only one kind of seeds and crops, the price for these seeds and crops would fall and there would be no profit to the farmers. Moreover, growing same kind of seeds and crop on the same land will extract the same minerals from the soil each time and a result the soil will be deprived of these minerals.

Q2: Talk to the elders in your family and find out if there were some special foods cooked earlier, that are not cooked anymore?
Ans: After talking to the elders of my family I found that there were no special food items which were made earlier and are not made any more.

Q3: There have been many changes in our food. What can this mean? Use the seed story and what you know from elders to explain.
Ans: There have been many changes in our food such as:

• Earlier people used to eat a variety of foods like bajra, jowar, wheat etc., but now we are eating mainly wheat.
• Earlier the old seeds were stored and grown in the nest year. Now a days new variants of seeds are grown and their products are quite different in taste.
• Earlier the foods were eaten in very simple forms, not very much spicy and overheated.
• Earlier, the traditional methods of irrigation (moat, canal), ploughing etc., were used whereas now a days, new methods of irrigation (sprinkler, drip), ploughing are being used.

Q4: List down what all changes have happened in the village over the years?
Ans: There are so many changes that happened in the past few years in the village. Some places got water from the canal. These canals brought water from far away from where a dam had been built on a big river. Then electricity came. People found that only one or two crops, like wheat and cotton, got better prices in the market. Farmers even began to buy seeds from the market.

Q5: Discuss the kinds of changes which have taken place in agricultural practices over the years and explain their reasons.
Ans: With less number of cows and buffaloes, the farmers have to use artificial fertilisers. These artificial fertilisers are harmful in excessive amount. The canal water was not enough for the new crops. All the farmers used pumps to lift water from deep under the ground. To meet all the expenses, most of the farmers have to depend on loans.

Q6: What all changes have happened when the tractor has been into the use?
Ans: After the tractor has come, even people who worked on the fields, are no longer needed. Because of this, unemployment has been increased, and people need to move on other work in order to earn their living expenses.

Q7: Hasmukh was making a lot of money from farming. Is it true? Explain if yes.
Ans: With the advanced farming techniques and changes in the market atmosphere, he was earning a lot of money. He rebuilt the old house. He brought new machines for farming. He used an electric motor to pump water. He bought a motorcycle to go to the city easily and also a tractor to plough the field.

Q8: What type of machines are used for crushing and separating seeds?
Ans: The work of crushing and separating seeds is done by big machines, such as threshers

Q9: Choose whether true or false:-
People are happy during harvest time in Damjibhai's family.
(a) True
(b) False
Ans: (a)
When the crop was ready and harvested, everyone celebrated together thus the given statement is true.

Q10: What was put inside the wooden box to protect the seeds?
(a) Neem leaves
(b) Corn leaves
(c) Coriander leaves
(d) Tulsi leaves
Ans: (a)
Neem leaves were put inside the wooden box to protect the small seeds from insects, thus option A is correct.

Q11:What is undhiya?
(a) A small seed
(b) A crop
(c) A stew
(d) A kind of bajra seed
Ans: (c)
Undhiya is a kind of stew. Stew has a thicker texture and it looks like a soup. Thus option C is correct.

Q12: Which of the following is not a step in cooking undhiya?
(a) The vegetables are put into a clay pot
(b) The pot is sealed and kept between hot coals
(c) The vegetables cook extremely fast
(d) The pot was placed upside down
Ans: (c)
The vegetables were cooked slowly in the special cooker on the fields, thus option C is incorrect

Q13: What all changes happened in the village?
(a) Different types of soil were found
(b) The amount of plants and trees starts increasing
(c) Most farmers became to grow different kinds of crops
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)
People found that only one or two crops, like wheat and cotton, got better prices in the market. So most farmers began to grow only these thus, option C is incorrect

Q14: Traditionally Undhiya is cooked in matlu. What is matlu?
(a) Skewer
(b) Fork
(c) Earthern Pot
(d) Pressure Cooker
Ans: (c)
Traditionally Undhiya is cooked in earthen pots. In Gujarati, earthern pots are called "matlu".

Q15: Why did farmers began buying seeds?
(a) They were cheap
(b) They had variety
(c) They were better than crop seeds
(d) None of these
Ans: (b)
Farmers began to buy seeds from the market as they were new kinds of seeds. So farmers did not need to store seeds from the old crop, thus option B is correct.