Test: Housing and clothing - 1 - Class 2 MCQ

Building material is any material used for construction purpose such as materials for house building. Wood, cement, aggregates, metals, bricks, concrete, clay are the most common type of building material used in construction. The choice of these are based on their cost effectiveness for building projects.

Houses in stilts are built in the areas of heavy rainfall.

A portable shelter made of cloth, supported by one or more poles and stretched tight by cords or loops attached to pegs driven into the ground.

In rainy season we use raincoat,gumboots and umbrella to prevent us from getting wet 

Aluminum is commonly used in metal roofing as a coating that helps preserve the underlying steel and increase roofing durability.

Sloping roofs are standard on all houses because water drains on a sloping roof better than it does on a flat roof. This is especially true in areas of snow where it would accumulate to the point that the weight of the snow could collapse the roof.

A caravan is either a covered vehicle, like a wagon or a van, or a procession of vehicles. If you watch a parade with a long line of floats traveling one after another down the street, that's a caravan of floats.

India has a rich tradition in mud architecture and more than 65 million of about 118 million houses in the country are made of mud. For instance, in Kerala, houses are often built with mud and laterite blocks, with tiled roofs on coconut timber rafters and purlins (horizontal beams).

people living in hilly area build house with sloping roof because when snow/rain fall in these slope it fall down.

An igloo has a domed shape and is made of compacted bricks of snow. Igloos, which are entirely built of snow blocks, have mostly been constructed by the Inuit tribes that live in parts of Canada and Greenland.