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NCERT
SOLUTIONS
CLASS - 4th
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Class : 4th
Subject : Environmental-Studies
Chapter : 5
Chapter Name : Anita And The Honeybees
Q1 Find out how much money do you spend in one year for various school related things.
Answer.
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Q2 How much money did you spend on your books this year?
Answer. Around Fifteen Hundred
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Q3 What kind of a school uniform would you like to wear? Draw a picture of it in your notebook
and colour it.
Answer. I like to wear a light blue top and dark grey bottom.
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Q4 Make two groups in the class. Debate the topic – ‘We should have uniforms in school.’
Answer. DIY
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Q1 Do you know someone who wanted to study, but could not do so? Talk about them in the class.
Answer. Yes, my neighbourhood, a boy warned to study. But, he had to leave after his father’s
death.
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Q2 Every child has a right to free education upto Class VIII. Do you think that all children are able
to study up to Class VIII? Discuss.
Answer. No, many children dropout due to various reasons.
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Q1 Have you seen any insects near owers? Find out their names and write.
Answer. Yes, I have seen insects near owers like honey bee and butter y.
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Q2 Draw and colour their pictures in the notebook.
Answer.
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Q3 Why do you think they come to the owers? Find out.
Answer. They come to the owers to collect nectar.
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Q4 When honey bee y, there is a kind of sound. Can you try to copy this sound?
Answer. When honey y they produce a buzzing sound.
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Q1 What do people in your area put on the part of the body where the bee has stung?
Answer. They usually put Chuna or lime.
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Q2 Draw a picture of a honey bee in your notebook. Colour it and give it a name.
Answer. Anita
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Q3 The litchi trees come to ower in February. I put all my four boxes near the litchi orchards. I got
12 kilograms of honey from each box. I sold this honey in the market. This was my rst earning
from my bees. Now I have 20 boxes.
What will be the total cost of Anita’s 20 boxes?
Answer. The total cost of Anita's 20 boxes will be about Rs 20,000.
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Q1 Anita and others in her village get Rs.35 for one kilogram of honey. How much does one
kilogram of honey cost in your town?
Answer. One kilogram of honey costs Rs. 270/- Kg.
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Q2 What are the different colours of honey that you have seen?
Answer. I have seen Golden and brown color honey.
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Q3 Is honey used in your house? What is it used for?
Answer. We take one spoon of honey every morning. It keeps us healthy. Also we eat with bread.
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Q4 Which are some other insects that live together in a group, like honeybees?
Answer. Other insects that live together in a group like honeybees are ants, termites, wasps.
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Q5 Have you seen where ants live?
Answer. They live inside soils.
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Q6 What kind of eatables attract ants? List them.
Answer. Grains, dead insects etc attract ants to them.
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Q7 Look at a line of ants. What is its colour?
Answer. They are black or red in color.
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Q8 Have you been bitten by an ant? What was the ant like – black or red, big or small?
Answer. Yes, I have been bitten by an ant. It was big and red in color.
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Q9 Do ants ever come near you? When?
Answer. They come near me when there is something eatable around me.
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Q10 Look carefully at some big and small ants. How many legs does an ant have?
Big ant__________
Small ant______________
Answer. Big ants - 6
Small ants - 6
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Q11 Draw an ant in your notebook and colour it.
Answer.
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Q12 While eating peanuts you probably throw away the shells. Why don’t you try to make some
insects by using the shells. Do not forget to colour them.
Answer.
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