Class-5 EVS Chapter-11 Sunita in Space, Additional Exercises with Solutions / NCERT


Chapter – 11
Sunita in Space

Match the column:

A
B
Sky, stars, sun and moon
Represents seas
Blue part on the globe
Gravity
People in Argentina and India are
They are all in space
Pull of earth is called
Standing upside down in relation to each other

Ans-
A
B
Sky, stars, sun and moon
They are all in space
Blue part on the globe
Represents seas
People in Argentina and India are
Standing upside down in relation to each other
Pull of earth is called
Gravity



State whether following statements are True or False:

1-  You see the moon rising at the same time every day.
False
2-  From space, one cannot make out the land and the sea. False
3-  One cannot see division of different countries from the space.
 True
4-  The earth pulls everything towards itself.
  True
5-  Sunita Williams went 360 kilometers away from the earth.     True


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Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:

(meteorite, Neil Armstrong, satellite, Sunita Williams, stars, night)

1-  In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.
2-  In 2007, Sunita Williams set a new record for the longest space flight by a women.
3-   We see stars mostly at night.
4-  Stars can be seen twinkling.
5-  A shining object which seems to move with a constant speed in the sky can be a satellite.
6-  A shooting star is actually a meteorite which catches fire when it enters the earth’s atmosphere.

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Answer the following questions:

Q. If the earth is round like a globe, how is that we do not fall off?
Ans- The earth is round like a globe but we do not fall off because of the pull of earth.

Q. Do people in Argentina stand upside down?
Ans- People in Argentina and India stand upside down in relation to each other. There is no ‘up’ and ‘down’ on the earth, it is relative.

Q. Can you think why Sunita’s hair kept standing?
Ans- Sunita’s hair kept standing because there was no gravitational pull in spacecraft.

Q. Why does water flows downwards on any slope. On mountains too water flows downwards, not upwards.
Ans- Water flows downwards, not upwards on any slope or mountains because of the pull of earth.

Q. Draw the phases of moon in your notebook.



Q. What are the festivals related to the moon?
Ans- Following are the festivals related to the moon:
1-  Diwali
2-  Holi
3-  Dusshera
4-  Janamashtami (dark fortnight)
5-  Ganesh Chaturthi (4th day of first fortnight)
6-  Guruparb
7-  Raksha Bandhan
8-  Eid-Ul-Fitr
9-  Hemis (religious festival of Ladakh on 10th day of Tibetan lunar calendar)
10-              Shivratri / Gurupurnima/ Budhpurnima

Q. Why did Sunita Williams want to become a school teacher?
Ans- Sunita Williams wanted to become a school teacher so that she could make children understand how science and math are closely linked to our lives.

Q. Why do children always slide down the slide and not slide up? If this slide were there in Sunita’s spacecraft, would children slide like this?
Ans- Children always slide down the slide and not slide up because of the earth’s pull.
If this slide were there in Sunita’s spacecraft, children would not slide like this because of the absence of gravitational pull.


Activities-

Mark the state in which you live in the map of your country. Also mark the states which are next to the state you live in.




   Look at the World Map. Can you see some of the countries with       which India plays cricket matches? For example: England, Australia, Pakistan

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