Class 5 EVS Question Answers - Documents

Q1:You must be familiar with following nursery rhymes:

1. ‘Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool’.
2. ‘Marry had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow’.

Answer the following:

1. Which parts of the black sheep have wool?
2. What is meant by the white fleece of the lamb?

Ans:

1. The hairy skin called fleece have wool in black sheep.
2. White fleece means the hairy skin which is white in colour.

Q2: The silkworm is (a) a caterpillar, (b) a larva. Choose the correct option.

(i) a (ii) b (iii) Both a and b (iv) neither a nor b.

Ans: (iii)

Q3: The silkworm is (a) a caterpillar, (b) a larva. Choose the correct option.

(i) yak (ii) camel (iii) goat (iv) woolly dog.

Ans: (iv)

Q4: What is meant by the following terms?

1. Rearing
2. Shearing
3. Sericulture

Ans: Rearing - Rearing of animals means taking care of economically useful animals by managing their breeding, feeding, medical care etc. for obtaining one or more of their product useful for human beings e.g., apiculture, sericulture. Shearing - The process of removing the fleece of the ship along with thin layer of skin is called shearing. Sericulture - The rearing of silk worms for obtaining silk is called sericulture.

Q5: Given below is a sequence of steps in the processing of wool. Which are the missing steps? Add them. 
 Shearing, _____________, sorting, ________, __________.

Ans: Shearing, scouring, sorting, picking out of burrs, colouring, rolling

Q6: Out of the following which are the two terms related to silk production: sericulture, floriculture, moriculture, apiculture, silviculture.

Ans: Sericulture, Moriculture

Q7: Match the items in column I with those in column II:

Ans: 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a.