CBSE Class 4 EVS Assignment Set A

Q.1 Tick the correct answer. (1×6=6)

i) The oxygen we take in helps to produce :

(a) food from water and carbon dioxide

(b) energy from food

ii) Air reaches your lungs through your :

(a) food pipe (b) windpipe

iii) If someone gets bitten by a snake, you should tie a piece of cloth firmly

(a) on the wound (b) just above the wound

iv) Coffee is made from roasted

(a) seeds (b) leaves (c) fruit

v) Dry cleaners use this to clean clothes

(a) petrol (b) naphthalene (c) detergent

vi) Multi-storeyed buildings are made to -

(a) get more air (b) get more light (c) save space

Q.2 Fill in the blanks. (1×6=6)

i) Water and carbondioxide change into __________ in the leaves.

ii) Different parts of your body move when your muscles __________.

iii) Fire cannot burn without __________.

iv) The main food that people eat is called __________ food.

v) __________ are the people who move from place to place.

vi) When something expands, it becomes __________.

Q.3 Write ‘True’ or ‘False’ against each statement. (1×6=6)

i) Your brain does not do any work when you sleep.

ii) Exercise tires your muscles and makes them weak.

iii) In places where there are earthquakes, people build strong houses with stones.

iv) Concrete is used to join wood.

v) Cold air moves downwards.

vi) Your liver helps in breathing.

Q.4 Answer in one word. (1×6=6)

i) What is the green substance in leaves called?

ii) Which is the biggest organ in our body?

iii) What are the holes in our teeth called?

iv) What are the tiny plants that grow on damp clothes called?

v) What is the art of building called?

vi) Which gas helps things burn?

Q.5 Give two examples for each of the following. (7×2=14)

i) Human body waste.

ii) Blood carrying tubes.

iii) Cereals

iv) Underground stems that we eat as vegetable.

v) Natural fibres

vi) Things used to protect stored clothes from insects.

vii) Things used to make concrete.

Q.6 Match the following. (6)

i) The gas plants use to make food Spinning

ii) A plant waste that is useful to us Dyeing

iii) Pulses, eggs, meat Carbon dioxide

iv) Colouring fabric or yarn Places which get flooded very often

v) Making yarn from fibres help you grow

vi) Houses on stilts Rubber

Q.7 Give answer in 1-2 lines. (2×8=16)

i) The air you breathe in has many gases. Which of these are used up inside your body?

ii) What are organs?

iii) Name any two sense organs.

iv) What is the first thing you should do with a burn?

v) What is a dairy?

vi) How is yarn made?

vii) What is the best way of ventilating a house?

viii) What does our body need oxygen for?

Q.8 Answer in 4-5 lines. (attempt any four) (4×4=16)

i) What do veins and arteries do?

ii) What makes holes in your teeth if you do not brush your teeth regularly?

iii) Write the steps you will take to help a person who is choking.

iv) Write any four things that a good house should have.

v) Why does the oxygen of the air not get over though all living beings use it?

Q.9 Value based question. 

Rahul and his mother went to a party. Rahul was very happy to see all his favourite food served there. He took lots of food in his plate. When his mother saw this, she told Rahul that he should take only

that much food which he can eat and also he should avoid overeating as overeating can cause indigestion. She explained to him that we should not waste food as farmers do lot of hard work to grow crops.

i) Why should we avoid overeating?

ii) What value have you learnt from the paragraph?

Q.1 Tick the correct answer. 

i) The area around the North Pole is called the –

a) Antarctic b) Arctic c) Equator

ii) Petroleum is purified in -

a) mines b) oil wells c) refineries

iii) Car pools help to save -

a) coal b) petrol c) none of these

iv) The members of a municipal council are called -

a) councillors b) residents c) mayors

v) The union ministers are chosen by the -

a) president b) prime minister c) chief minister

vi) When you heat a metal, it becomes -

a) hard b) soft c) shiny

Q.2 Fill in the blanks.

i) The sea that fills a large curve in the land is called a ______.

ii) General elections are held every ______ years in our country.

iii) The minimum age for voting in a gram panchayat election is ______ years.

iv) Compost is good for the growth of ______.

v) The water under the ground comes from ______.

vi) The earth rotates from ______ to ______.

Q.3 ‘True’ or ‘False’. 

i) Our country is in the northern hemisphere.

ii) The changing of water into watervapour is called condensation.

iii) Coal and petroleum are metals.

iv) The people of our country pay taxes to build and maintain public property.

v) Learning to grow crops helped man settle down in villages.

Q.4 Answer in one word. 

i) The holes dug to get the petroleum.

ii) Small solid unburnt particles present in smoke.

iii) The money that we pay to government.

iv) A song, which is written in praise of something.

v) To find something which already exists.

vi) Tax paid to use any road or bridge.

Q.5 Give two examples for each of the sentences.

i) Animals found in hot climatic areas.

ii) Mixed metals.

iii) Things that can be recycled.

iv) Things setup by gram panchayat

v) Animals seen in our national emblem.

vi) Inventions by early man.

Q.6 Match the following: 

i) Jana, Gana, Mana toll booth

ii) The spokes of the chakra ration shop

iii) A place for paying toll national anthem

iv) The circle around the middle of the earth equator

v) Sells groceries at a fixed price hours

Q.7 Short answer questions. 

i) What does recycling mean?

ii) Name three natural resources that all living beings need.

iii) Name five things that are built and maintained by municipality.

iv) Who elects the members of a gram panchayat?

v) What is the head of a gram panchayat called?

vi) Who makes laws for a state?

vii) Who elects the members of a municipality?

viii) Name the group of Indian islands that lie in the Arabian sea.

ix) What is written at the base of our emblem? What does it mean?

x) What were man’s earliest weapons made of ?

Q.8 Long answer questions.

i) What does a gram panchayat do? Write any four things.

ii) What do the members of parliament do? Who elects the president of our country?

iii) How to forest fires occur (happen)?

iv) What do the colours in our national flag stand for? What does the chakra at the centre of our flag stand for?

v) Write four things a municipality does.

Q.9 Read the paragraph given below and answer the following questions.

Mr. Mohan was coming back from his office.
He saw some garbage (kitchen waste) near his house. He called his son Sohan and asked him
“Who has thrown the garbage here?”
Sohan said that it was done by him.
Then Mr. Mohan explained Sohan that garbage should be thrown into a pit and then covered with soil. 
It makes the soil fertile which is good for the growth of plants.

i) What is the product called when kitchen waste changes into fertile soil?

ii) What is the moral you get from above situation?

Q.10 a) Draw and label the following diagram. (any one) 

Three climatic zones of the earth

OR

Land forms.

Q.1 Tick the correct answer. (1×6=6)

i) Oxygen and food combine inside the body to produce

a) carbondioxide, water vapour and energy b) only energy

ii) Air reaches to your lungs through

a) food pipe b) wind pipe

iii) If someone gets bitten by a snake, you should tie a piece of cloth

a) on the wound b) just above the wound

iv) Coffee is made from

a) seeds b) leaves c) fruits

v) A loom is used for

a) weaving b) spinning c) dyeing

vi) Multi-storeyed buildings are made to

a) get more air b) get more light c) save space

Q.2 Fill in the blanks. (1×6=6)

i) Plants breathe through tiny pores on their ___________.

ii) Different parts of your body move when your muscles ___________.

iii) A ___________ is bubblelike swelling on the skin.

iv) A water body where fish are ‘grown’ is called a ___________.

v) Drains should be covered so that ___________ do not breed in them.

vi) When something expands, it becomes ___________.

Q.3 Write ‘True’ or ‘False’. (1×6=6)

i) Your brain does not do any work when you sleep.

ii) Germs called bacteria live in your mouth.

iii) Exercise tires your muscles and make them weak.

iv) Thatched huts have roofs of concrete.

v) In places where there are earthquakes, people build strong houses with stones.

vi) Cement is used to join wood.

Q.4 Give answer in one word. (1×6=6)

i) Green substance in leaves.

ii) The biggest organ in human body.

iii) Substance produced by the bacteria in our mouth.

iv) A kind of tiny plant that grows on damp clothes.

v) A mixture of cement, chips of stone and water.

vi) The underground base of a house.

Q.5 Write two examples of each. (2×7=14)

i) Tubes that carry blood in our body.

ii) Organs that help in digesting the food we eat.

iii) Cereals

iv) Seeds from which we get oil.

v) Things used to protect our clothes.

vi) Temporary houses made by the nomads of North America.

vii) Natural fibres

Q.6 Match the following. (6)

i) Fruits and vegetables help you grow

ii) Colouring fabric or yarn chlorophyll

iii) Making fabric from yarn rubber

iv) Pulses, eggs and meat weaving

v) The green substance in leaves help you stay healthy

vi) A plant waste that is useful to us dyeing

Q.7 Answer the following questions. (2×8=16)

i) Which gas helps things burn?

ii) What is the best way of ventilating a house?

iii) How is yarn made?

iv) What is a dairy?

v) What is the first thing that you should do with a burn?

vi) Why should you not clean your ears with your nails?

vii) Why do the stomach and small intestine have to dissolve the food you eat?

Q.8 Write answer in 4-5 lines  

i) What do veins and arteries do?

ii) What does the brain do when you sleep?

iii) Write the steps you will take to help a person who is choking?

iv) Write any four things that a good house should have or be?

v) Why does the oxygen of the air does not get over, though all living beings use it?

Q.9 Read the following paragraph and answer the questions

Rahul and his mother went to a party.
Rahul was very happy to see all his favourite food served there.
He took lot of food in his plate.
When his mother saw this, she told Rahul that he should take only that much food which he can eat easily to avoid wastage of food.
She explained that he should not overeat as overeating can cause indigestion.
She also explained that we should not waste food as farmers do lot of hard work to grow crops.

i) Why should we avoid overeating?

ii) What moral did you learn from the paragraph?