Homework Assignment 2 | BBC Compacta Solutions for Class 9 PDF Download

1.
Ans: The Baobab tree has an enormous, thick trunk and stunted branches that look like gnarled roots spreading wide. The branches are bare for nine months of the year, only putting out leaves twice a year for a few weeks when the rains come. For most of the time, it looks as if it has been pulled out of the ground and stuffed back in upside down. Its branches do not grow upwards in the typical tree fashion.

2.
Ans: (d) its branches are bare for nine months in a year.

3.
Ans: (d) twisted and rough.

4.
Ans: The Baobab tree ended up on the earth because God Thora threw it over the wall of paradise to Earth in anger, and it continued to grow. God Thora did this because he was annoyed with the Baobab tree’s constant grumbling and wailing to be taller, to have brilliant flame-coloured flowers, and to bear tasty fruit.

5.
Ans: (c) It grew upside down.

6.
Ans:  Both tales explain the Baobab's distinctive appearance as a result of being thrown down from the heavens. In both, the tree is inverted, which is why it looks like it’s “upside down” with its roots in the air.

7.

Ans: they need to collect as much rainwater as they can during the short rainy season to survive the long droughts.

8.
Ans: The Baobab tree can be called the water tank of the arid savannahs of Africa because it spreads its roots wide to collect as much rainwater as possible, which it then stores in its bark and lower trunk for use during the dry months.

9.
Ans: (b) point out the unusually long life that some Baobab trees have had.

10.
Ans: REASON: They can live up to 3000 years, keep growing even when burnt by forming new bark, and when they die, they do not rot from the inside but suddenly collapse, leaving only a heap of fibers.

11.
Ans: (a) It's a tradition to show them respect that befits a mother.

12.
Ans: (i) arid and dry  (iv) countless and numerous