Activity Questions and Answers:
Textbook Activity:
THE BOOK OF NATURE
– Jawaharlal Nehru
ACTIVITY – 1
Underline the appropriate alternatives:
A) India is in fact a (big/small/huge) part of the earth’s surface.
Ans- India is in fact a – small part of the earth’s surface.
B) Once upon a time the earth was too (cold/dark/hot) for any living being to survive.
Ans- Once upon a time the earth was too – hot for any living being to survive.
C) Fossils are (a type of wild animal / one kind of hard rock / the remains of old living beings)
Ans- Fossils are – the remains of old living beings.
ACTIVITY – 2
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
A) What must we do to know about the tale of this world?
Ans- To know about the tale of this world we must think of all the countries and all the people that have inhabited it and not merely of one little country where we may have been born.
B) How old is our earth?
Ans- Our earth is very old – millions and millions of years old.
C) Who roamed the earth before the arrival of human beings?
Ans- Only animals roamed the earth before the arrival of human beings.
Complete Textbook Exercise from “TALES OF BHOLA GRANDPA” | Class – 9
ACTIVITY – 3
Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the text. The first letters of the words are given:
A) As a subject, h_________ is quite interesting.
Ans- history.
B) We have good relations with our neighboring c__________.
Ans- countries.
C) Plants need air, water and sunlight to g________.
Ans- grow.
D) Can you i__________ how big the universe is?
Ans- imagine.
E) You should s_________ regularly if you want to be a good student.
Ans- study.
ACTIVITY – 4
Make meaningful sentences with the following words:
Ans-
• Interest: The more you read the more your interest will grow in reading.
• Surface: Actually we live on the earth’s surface.
• Inhabited: In old times, only poor illiterate people inhabited the rural areas.
• Together: We shall visit the place together.
• Scientist: A scientist researches to find out the answer to unknown mysteries of this earth.
ACTIVITY – 5
Identify which of the following sentences are True and which are False. Give a support statement for each of your answers:
A) Fairy tales are rich in imagination.
Ans- True; Supporting Statement: This would be very interesting for we could imagine anything we wanted to and would this make up the most beautiful fairy tales.
B) We have no means to know about the far-off days.
Ans- False; Supporting Statement: But although we have no books written in those far-off days, fortunately we have some things which will tell us a great deal as well almost as a book would.
C) The alphabet of nature is like the Hindi or the English alphabet.
Ans- True; Supporting Statement: To be able to read any language, Hindi,Urdu or English, you have to learn its alphabet. So also you must learn the alphabet of nature before you can read her story in her books of stone and rock.
D) We can learn a lot about our world from the rivers and mountains.
Ans- True; Supporting Statement: If a little pebble can tell you so much, how much more could we learn from all the rocks and mountains and the many other things we see around us?