Clss-5 EVS Chapter-9 Forest and Treasure

 

EVENTS CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL

Environmental SCIENCE
Class-5

CHAPTER-9

Forest our Treasure

 

  New words

1. Resource

2. Medicines

3. Soil erosion

4. Inhabitants

5. Adivasis

6. Andaman and Nicobar

7. Occupation

8. Tamarind

9. Bidis

10. Deforestation

11. Migrate

12. Inter-dependence

13. Vanamahotsava

14. Gumpa

15. Devrais


Answer the following questions:-

Que-1 What is Meant by Forest?

Ans-1A forest is a large area of land thickly covered with trees and growing  plants.

Que-2 What is the importance of forests?

Ans-2 The Importance of forests are :

1.      The forests are source of fruits, medicines, firewood and many other useful things.

2.      Forest provide shelter to wild animals.

3.      Forest Play a major role in making the air clean.

4.      Forest are home to many tribal people .

Que-3 Name some of the tribes of India?

Ans-3 The Tribes of India are Bhils, Gonds, Khasis, and Mizos they are called adivasis which means first inhabitants.

Que-4 How do the forest People depend on forests and their products for their livelihood?

Ans-4 The forest provide tribes with food, fuels, fodder, medicines, shelter and clothing for many of these tribes, collecting and selling forest products.

Que-5 What is deforestation ?

Ans-5 Cutting down trees of forest at a rate faster than they can replace themselves is called deforestation.

Que-6 Which is the first national park of India and when it was establish?

Ans-6 India’s first national park, hailey National Park, now jim Corbett National Park was established in 1935.

Que-7 what are the effects of deforestation?

Ans-7 The effect of deforestation:

1.      Loss of habitat.

2.      Increase green house gases.

3.      Water is the atmosphere causes dryer soil

4.      Soil erosion and flooding.

5.      Distruction of homelands.