QUESTION ANSWERS OF CHAPTER 13 CLASS 5

CLASS 5 SUBJECT EVS

CHAPTER 13 A SHELTER SO HIGH

ANWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:-

FIND OUT:-

1.      Check in your map. Which state would one pass through while travelling from Mumbai to Kashmir?

Ans: The states that one pass through while travelling from Mumbai to Kashmir are:-

1.      Maharashtra

2.      Gujarat

3.      Rajasthan

4.      Punjab

5.      Haryana

6.      Himachal Pradesh

7.      Jammu and Kashmir

2.      Gaurav Jani passed through several states while going from Mumbai to Delhi. Find the capital cities of these states. Was there any other big town on his way?

Ans: The states and capitals that Gaurav Jani passes through are as follow:-

1.      Maharashtra – Mumbai

2.      Gujarat           -- Gandhi Nagar

3.      Haryana          -- Chandigarh

The big towns that one passes through are Ahmedabad, Udaipur, Jaipur, Ajmer etc.

Q3.        Is Manali a plain or a hilly area? In which state is it?

             Ans: Manali is a hilly area and it is in Himachal Pradesh.

Q4. Have you ever stayed in a ten? Where? What was it like?

             Ans: yes I stayed in tent in the NCC camp. It was in Shimla. It was really adventurous and exciting experience.

Q5. Imagine that you were to stay alone in a small tent for two days and could take with you only 10 things. Make a list of those 10 things.

             Ans: if I would stay alone in a small tent I would take these 10 things with me:-

1.      Clothes

2.      Sweater

3.      Blanket

4.      Torch

5.      Food items

6.      Shoes

7.      Camera

8.      Canvas

9.      Stick

10.  Water

Q6. What are the different type of houses that you have seen? Tell your friends about it.

            Ans: I have seen different type of houses in different areas:

1.      Wooden houses in hilly area

2.      Cement brick and glass and houses in cities

3.      Houses with sloping roofs in hilly areas

4.      Boat houses in lakes

5.      Mud and straw houses in rural and desert areas.

These houses are made according to the climate of the area.

Q7. During winter, Tashi and his family live on ground floor. Why would they be doing so?

           Ans: There is no window on the ground, so the ground floor is protected from the cold winds, Tashi and his family live on the ground floor to protect themselves from the icy cold winds of the winter season. 

Q8. What is your house like? What all is the roof used for?

Ans: The roof of our house is flat. It is used for drying clothes, playing, flying kites, drying vegetables, spices and wheat and for sun bathing.

Q9. At what height is the place where you live?

Ans: I live in Ferozepur it is at the height of nearly 200 meters from the sea level.

Q10. Why did Gaurav Jani say - ‘’ this place is so high that it is difficult to breathe normally”?

Ans: The air becomes thin when we go up. The oxygen in the air becomes less. So it is difficult to breathe normally.

Q11. Have you ever been to a hilly place?

Ans: Yes, I have gone to Kullu.

Q12. At what height was it? Did you have any difficulty in breathing there?

Ans: Kullu is about 2000 meters from the sea level. Yes we had difficulty in breathing there.

Q13. Which is the highest place you have been to?

Ans: The highest place I have been to is Rohtang pass. It is about 4000 meters from the sea level.

Q14. For the Changpas their animals are a very important part of their life. Is any animal part of your life? For example, a pet, or as helpers in farming. List five ways in which different animals are a part of your life?

Ans: I have a pet dog and he is very useful to us.

Five ways in which different animals are important to us.

1.      DOG: Dogs protects our house.

2.      COWS: Cows give us milk.

3.      BUFFALO: It also gives us milk.

4.      BULLOCK: Bullocks are used for farming.

5.      HORSE: Horse pulls our carts and carry loads.

Q15. You read that in Changthang the temperature drops below 0⁰C. Look at newspaper or TV to find cities in India or abroad where the temperature drops below 0⁰C. In which months do you expect to see that?

Ans: Shri Nagar, Ladakh, Shimla are the places in India and Minnesota, Etowah are outside India.

Q16. The houses in different part of Jammu and Kashmir are made to suit the climate and the needs of the people there. Are there different type of houses in the place where you live? If yes think about the reasons.

Ans: Yes, in our area, there are houses made of cement, bricks, glass and steel.

These houses can withstand in Natural Calamities such as heavy rain, earthquake, storms etc.

Many houses are made of mud, bamboo, tin, tarpaulin and grass.

These houses are of poor people.

Q17. Think of your house, is there something special in it like sloping roof as it rains a lot or a courtyard where you can sleep when it is hot or where things are kept in the sun?

Ans: Our house has a flat roof but it has a courtyard. We can sleep and dry things on roof and in the courtyard.

Q18. What are material used for making your house? It is mud, brick, stone, wood cement?

And: The material used for our house is Cement, brick, glass, steel etc.

Q19. Can you guess the similarities and differences in the life of Bakarwals people and life of Changpas?

Ans: Similarities:

1.      Both the Bakarwals and Changpas live in the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir.

2.      Both the tribes keep on moving from one place to other.

3.      Both of them depend on the animals like sheep, goat and yak for their living.

4.      Both of them sell wool obtained from their animals.

Differences:-

	BAKARWALS	CHANGPAS
1.	Bakarwals graze any type of goat and sheep at lower altitude.	Changpas graze only special type of goats and sheep at very high and cold places or on higher altitude.
2.	They live in the houses made of stone and mud.	They live in tents made of yak hair and sticks called Rebo.
3.	There houses are already built on the top of the hills with stones and mud.	They make tents with the yak hair, Sticks and wooden poles.
4.	They make any type of wool.	They make pashmina wool.

Q20. Describe how these shelters suit the needs of the people who live there.

Ans: Different type of houses in Jammu and Kashmir fulfil the need of the people in the following ways:-

1.      Houseboat and donga are the complete houses with every facility in boats.

2.      The houses made of stone, wood and mud protect the people from cold weather.

3.      Tent houses (Rabo) of Changpa tribe provide them warmth and help the tribe move easily from one place to another.

Q21. How these houses different from the houses you live in?

Ans: Our houses are made from bricks, cement, glass and steel.

These houses are fixes so they are immoveable.

They are permanent and strong.

They can withstand natural calamities like earthquakes. Storms, heavy rainfall etc.

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