Class-5 EVS, Chapter-19, A Seed Tells a Farmer's Story, Additional Exercises with Solutions/ NCERT
Chapter – 19
A Seed Tells a
Farmer’s Story
Identify these seeds:
Match the column:
A
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B
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Undhiya
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Okhli
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Charkha
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A kind of stew
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Earthworms
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Moosli
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Mortar
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Soil’s best briends
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Pestle
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Cotton is spun to make cloth
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Ans-
A
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B
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Undhiya
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A kind of stew
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Charkha
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Cotton is spun to make cloth
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Earthworms
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Soil’s best briends
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Mortar
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Okhli
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Pestle
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Moosli
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State whether these statements are true or false:
1- Farmers grow same grains and vegetables in all seasons. (False)
2- The canal water was not enough for the new crop. (True)
3- Hasmukh used electric motor to pump water. (True)
Fill in the blanks with suitable words:
1- Damjibhai made a strong wooden box to store seeds.
2- Neem leaves protect seeds from insects.
3- A tractor could do in a day what the bullocks
would take many days to do.
4- When the top layer of the soil becomes dry, the croton
leaves bend and become limp.
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Answer these questions:
Q.1 Are rotis made in your home? From which grain are they
made?
Ans- Yes, rotis are made in my home. They are made from
wheat flour.
Q.2 In your house, what is done to protect grains and pulses
from insects?
Ans- In my house, grains and pulses are stores with neem
leaves in air-tight containers.
Q.3 What is a canal? How does it help in farming?
Ans- A canal brings water from far away- where a dam had
been built on a big river. It helps farmers to irrigate fields.
Q.4 Why was Hasmukh forced to by expensive fertilizers?
Ans- Without cows and buffaloes, there was no cow dung to be
used in the fields as fertilizer. Therefore, Hasmukh was forced to buy
expensive fertilizers.
Q.4 What affects the soil badly?
Ans- Growing the same crop over and over, and using so many
chemicals affects the soil badly.
Q.5 How does croton plants help in farming?
Ans- Croton plant’s leaves bend and become limp, when the
soil becomes dry. This signal tells farmer which part of his farm needs to be
watered.
Q.6 What is compost? How is it prepared?
Ans- Compost is a natural fertilizer. It is prepared by
putting garden waste (dries leaves), kitchen waste (peels of vegetables and
fruits, and leftover food) and earthworms in a pit.
Q.7 What is technology?
Ans- A process or method is called technology. For example,
making dough from dry atta (flour) is a technology, a special process.
Give Reason. Why?
Q.1 Bajra and jowar were forgotten and dismissed.
Ans- Bajra and jowar were forgotten and dismissed because
people found that only one or two crops like wheat and cotton, got better
prices in the market. So most farmers began to grow only these.
Q.2 Taste of food is different from past.
Ans- The taste of food is different from past because the
seeds have changed.
Q.3 Cotton prices are not as high as before.
Ans- Everyone was growing cotton, so the cotton prices were
not as high as before.
Q.4 Damjibhai’s son Hasmukh chose to become a farmer like
his father. Hasmukh’s son Paresh is not a farmer, but a truck driver. Why would
he have done so?
Ans- Paresh chose to become a truck driver instead of being
a farmer because of these probable reasons.
1- Paresh was educated.
2- It was difficult to earn living by farming alone.
3- Bank loans had to be repaid.
Q.5 Earthworms are called “Soil’s best friends”.
Ans- Earthworms are called soil’s best friends because of
following reasons:
1- Earthworms keep digging underneath to make tunnels. This
way air and water can easily get into the soil.
2- They eat the dead leaves and plants, and their droppings
fertilise the soil.
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