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These 30 CTET Environmental Studies multiple choice questions cover environmental studies content and pedagogy. Each question has the correct answer with a step-by-step explanation and a short teacher's note, so you can practise for the Central Teacher Eligibility Test and check your understanding.
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A. to draw students' attention to steps of scientific inquiry
B. to teach students that traits are transmitted from one generation to another
C. to draw students' attention towards how traits are inherited by successive generations
D. to help students find resemblances between themselves and their parents or relatives
(a) A and C
(b) A and B
(c) B and C
(d) C and D
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Answer: (a) A and C
Explanation:
1. Mendel's work shows the steps of scientific inquiry (A).
2. It also shows how traits are inherited by successive generations (C).
Teacher's Note:
1. Look for the reasons about inquiry and inheritance.
2. Follow the key if B seems close.
A. Periodic evaluation of known aspects of growth and development
B. Evaluation of curricular and cocurricular aspects of growth and development
C. Diagnosis of learning gaps and provision of corrective measures
D. Measurement of abilities, attitude and aptitude
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) C and D
(d) A and C
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Answer: (d) A and C
Explanation:
1. Continuous means regular evaluation (A) and diagnosis with corrective measures (C).
2. B relates to comprehensive and D to measurement of abilities.
Teacher's Note:
1. Continuous = regular and ongoing.
2. Comprehensive = all aspects.
(a) Relationships
(b) Plants
(c) Work and play
(d) Things we make and do
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Answer: (d) Things we make and do
Explanation:
1. The main themes of EVS are Family and Friends, Food, Shelter, Water, Travel and Things We Make and Do.
2. The others are sub-themes.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn the six themes of the NCF syllabus.
2. Plants and relationships are sub-themes.
A. Pictures attract children
B. Children are in the concrete operational stage of development
C. Children understand the concept faster through pictures
D. Pictures make the book attractive
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) C and D
(d) A and D
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Answer: (b) B and C
Explanation:
1. At the concrete operational stage children understand best through concrete, visual material (B).
2. Pictures help them understand concepts faster (C).
Teacher's Note:
1. Choose the pedagogical reasons.
2. Attractiveness is a minor reason.
(a) Assam
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Gujarat
(d) Madhya Pradesh
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Answer: (a) Assam
Explanation:
1. Tropical rainforests need heavy rain and warm weather.
2. In the options, Assam has such rainfall and forests.
Teacher's Note:
1. Rajasthan and Gujarat are dry.
2. North-east India and Western Ghats have rainforests.
(a) 36
(b) 24
(c) 16
(d) 8
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Answer: (a) 36
Explanation:
1. The key given is 36 commands.
2. This fact is from the lesson on Wahida and I could not verify it.
Teacher's Note:
1. Recall details from the NCERT lesson.
2. Follow the key.
(a) interactions with the environment around us, nature, things and people, both through actions and through language
(b) only EVS textbooks prepared by NCERT and State boards
(c) teachers and students involved in activities related to the environment
(d) activities selected by the teachers suitable for the students
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Answer: (a) interactions with the environment around us, nature, things and people, both through actions and through language
Explanation:
1. NCF 2005 stresses interaction with nature, things and people through actions and language.
2. It does not limit learning to textbooks or teacher-chosen activities.
Teacher's Note:
1. Look for the broadest child-centred option.
2. Textbooks are not the only source.
________ should become a medium for engaging young minds in first-hand observation of nature and understanding the pattern and processes in the natural and social worlds.
(a) Parents
(b) Peers
(c) Environment
(d) Teachers
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Answer: (c) Environment
Explanation:
1. The environment itself is the medium for first-hand observation of nature.
2. This is the EVS idea of learning through the environment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Environment is both subject and medium.
2. Check the words 'first-hand observation of nature'.
A. Visit to a food processing unit in which students are briefed about processing process by an expert
B. Organising a "mango eatables fest," where students put stalls of various dishes of mangoes prepared by them
C. Inviting an expert from food processing unit for an expert lecture in your class
D. Organise an exhibition in which various food items prepared from mango are displayed
(a) A and B
(b) A, C and D
(c) B and C
(d) C and D
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Answer: (a) A and B
Explanation:
1. A visit (A) and a fest where students prepare dishes (B) are experiential.
2. A lecture and display are more passive.
Teacher's Note:
1. Prefer active, hands-on learning.
2. Field visits give first-hand experience.
(a) Providing students opportunity to work alone
(b) Helping students in doing work
(c) Providing students opportunity to work in small groups
(d) Providing students opportunity to work in large groups
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Answer: (c) Providing students opportunity to work in small groups
Explanation:
1. Small groups allow every child to take part and share ideas.
2. Large groups reduce participation.
Teacher's Note:
1. Group work promotes cooperation.
2. Keep groups small.
A. Interactive
B. Constructive
C. Summative
D. Evaluation
(a) A, B and C
(b) B, C and D
(c) A, C and D
(d) A, B and D
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Answer: (a) A, B and C
Explanation:
1. Assessment in the EVS classroom is interactive (teacher and child respond to each other), constructive (it builds understanding) and can be summative as well as formative.
2. Evaluation is a broader judgement of the whole programme and is not itself a nature of assessment, so A, B and C go together.
Teacher's Note:
1. Assessment is a continuing, interactive and constructive process, not only an end-of-term test.
2. Do not confuse assessment (gathering evidence of learning) with evaluation (judging value).
(a) hands on activities
(b) role play
(c) exploratory activities
(d) analysis of examples
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Answer: (d) analysis of examples
Explanation:
1. Heredity (passing of traits from parents to offspring) cannot be directly handled or explored by children.
2. Studying familiar examples, such as similarities between children and their parents, makes the abstract idea concrete.
Teacher's Note:
1. For abstract concepts use real, familiar examples from the child's life.
2. Hands-on or exploratory work suits concrete topics, not inheritance.
"Koohu-koohu is my sound
Everywhere I am found
My sweet voice give me fame
Just tell what is my name"
The solution is:
(a) Mynah
(b) Parrot
(c) Dove
(d) Koel
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Answer: (d) Koel
Explanation:
1. The call 'koohu-koohu' is the sweet song of the male koel.
2. Mynah, parrot and dove have different calls.
Teacher's Note:
1. Learn birds with their calls: koel (kuhu), crow (caw), dove (coo).
2. Use sound clues first in riddle questions.
Grass → Deer → Tiger
(a) Grass will start to decrease
(b) Tigers will increase their population
(c) Population of tigers will decrease
(d) Tigers will change their feeding habit
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Answer: (c) Population of tigers will decrease
Explanation:
1. Poaching reduces the number of deer, the food of tigers.
2. With less food available, the tiger population will fall after a few years.
Teacher's Note:
1. Removing one link affects the links above and below it.
2. Fewer deer would let grass increase, not decrease.
(a) Air Quantity Index
(b) Air Quantum Index
(c) Air Quality Index
(d) Air Quadratic Index
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Answer: (c) Air Quality Index
Explanation:
1. AQI stands for Air Quality Index.
2. It reports how clean or polluted the air is.
Teacher's Note:
1. Higher AQI values mean worse air; above 300 is 'very poor'.
2. Know the common abbreviations like AQI and PM2.5.
(a) solar
(b) light
(c) chemical
(d) mechanical
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Answer: (c) chemical
Explanation:
1. Producers convert solar energy into chemical energy stored in food.
2. Only about 10% of this stored chemical energy passes to the next trophic level.
Teacher's Note:
1. This is Lindeman's 10 percent law.
2. Energy is passed on as chemical energy in food, not as sunlight.
(a) Soil
(b) Water
(c) Nutrient
(d) Sunlight
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Answer: (a) Soil
Explanation:
1. Hydroculture (hydroponics) grows plants in water with dissolved nutrients.
2. Soil is not used.
Teacher's Note:
1. Hydroponics needs water, nutrients and light but no soil.
2. Do not mix it up with aeroponics, which uses mist.
(a) Hygrometer
(b) Hydrometer
(c) Rain gauge
(d) Barometer
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Answer: (c) Rain gauge
Explanation:
1. A rain gauge collects and measures rainfall.
2. Hygrometer measures humidity, hydrometer measures liquid density, barometer measures air pressure.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match instruments to their quantity: barometer-pressure, hygrometer-humidity.
2. 'Gauge' means measure.
(a) Pigeon
(b) Sparrow
(c) Owl
(d) Crow
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Answer: (c) Owl
Explanation:
1. Owls have both eyes at the front of the face, as humans do.
2. Pigeons, sparrows and crows have eyes on the sides of the head.
Teacher's Note:
1. Hunters (owls, eagles) have front-facing eyes; hunted birds often have side-facing eyes.
2. Front eyes give better depth vision.
(a) Chital
(b) Barasingha
(c) Sambar
(d) Sangai
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Answer: (d) Sangai
Explanation:
1. Loktak Lake in Manipur has Keibul Lamjao National Park, the floating park.
2. It is the only home of the Sangai (brow-antlered deer).
Teacher's Note:
1. Sangai is also called the dancing deer.
2. Barasingha is found in central India, not Loktak.
(a) 22nd March
(b) 5th June
(c) 11th July
(d) 22nd April
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Answer: (a) 22nd March
Explanation:
1. World Water Day is on 22 March.
2. 5 June is World Environment Day, 11 July World Population Day and 22 April Earth Day.
Teacher's Note:
1. Keep a list of important environment days.
2. Do not mix up 22 March and 22 April.
(a) Free and compulsory education to children from birth to 6 years
(b) Free and compulsory education to children till the age of 14 years
(c) Free and compulsory education to children from 6-18 years
(d) Free and compulsory education to children from 6-14 years
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Answer: (d) Free and compulsory education to children from 6-14 years
Explanation:
1. The RTE Act 2009 covers children aged 6 to 14 years.
2. It follows Article 21A of the Constitution.
Teacher's Note:
1. Age group 6-14 is a common exam fact.
2. NEP 2020 extends the school stage to 3-18 years, but RTE remains 6-14.
A. Digging to loosen the soil
B. Weeding
C. Cutting the dried leaves from the top of onion
D. Plucking the onion out
E. Sowing of seeds
The correct sequence is:
(a) A, B, E, D, C
(b) A, E, B, D, C
(c) A, B, E, C, D
(d) A, E, B, C, D
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Answer: (b) A, E, B, D, C
Explanation:
1. First loosen the soil, then sow seeds, then weed as the plants grow.
2. At harvest, onions are plucked out and then the dried tops are cut.
Teacher's Note:
1. Order any crop process as prepare, sow, tend, harvest, process.
2. Weeding cannot come before sowing.
(a) Cherrapunji
(b) Agumbe
(c) Mahabaleshwar
(d) Mawsynram
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Answer: (d) Mawsynram
Explanation:
1. Mawsynram in Meghalaya receives the highest average annual rainfall in India.
2. Cherrapunji is close by but slightly lower on average.
Teacher's Note:
1. Both are in Khasi Hills of Meghalaya.
2. Agumbe is called the Cherrapunji of the south.
(a) She should instruct the class to stop laughing and maintain discipline
(b) She should explain that this is not possible since that part of Earth will be very far
(c) She should encourage students to find out the answer to this question
(d) She should tell that today they will study only the occurrence of day and night and discuss this in the next class
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Answer: (c) She should encourage students to find out the answer to this question
Explanation:
1. A good EVS teacher values children's questions and encourages inquiry.
2. Asking students to find the answer builds thinking and respects Ayesha.
Teacher's Note:
1. Never suppress or postpone a child's curiosity.
2. Prefer options that promote inquiry and a safe classroom climate.
(a) Tell Nida to rise early so that she can complete all her work and come to school on time
(b) Talk to Nida's mother and tell her to help her come to school on time
(c) Tell Nida that looking after household and home-chores are the responsibility of all family members
(d) Arrange a classroom discussion and ask students about whose responsibility it is to look after household
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Answer: (d) Arrange a classroom discussion and ask students about whose responsibility it is to look after household
Explanation:
1. The issue is a gender stereotype about household work.
2. A classroom discussion lets all children reflect and question the stereotype without blaming Nida or her mother.
Teacher's Note:
1. Handle gender issues through discussion, not blame or lecturing.
2. Avoid options that accept the stereotype or single out the child.
(a) Concept formation
(b) Habit formation
(c) Joy of exploring
(d) Information
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Answer: (c) Joy of exploring
Explanation:
1. At the primary stage EVS aims to arouse curiosity and let children explore their surroundings.
2. Joy of exploring leads to concepts and habits later.
Teacher's Note:
1. EVS is learning through exploration, not memorising information.
2. NCF 2005 stresses curiosity and exploration.
A. An activity is a physical, social and mental act.
B. Activity is suitable for primary classes and difficult for higher classes.
C. By activity the syllabus cannot be completed on time.
D. Activity is the process to learn from experience and help in learning.
(a) A and B only
(b) A and C only
(c) A and D only
(d) B and C only
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Answer: (c) A and D only
Explanation:
1. An activity involves body, society and mind (A) and means learning from experience (D).
2. B and C are myths about activity-based learning.
Teacher's Note:
1. Activities suit all stages and make learning better.
2. Reject statements that call activities a waste of time.
A. Results of the experiments must be given in the textbook so that students can verify.
B. Results of the experiments must not be given in the textbook so that students themselves can observe, enquire and generalise.
C. Results of the experiments must be provided by teachers so that students can verify.
D. Results of the experiments must not be provided by teacher since experimentation is about observation, enquiry and generalisation.
(a) A and C only
(b) B and D only
(c) A and D only
(d) B and C only
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Answer: (b) B and D only
Explanation:
1. Experiments are for children to observe, ask and generalise on their own.
2. So results should not be handed over in the textbook (B) or by the teacher (D).
Teacher's Note:
1. Discovery learning means children find results themselves.
2. Giving the result in advance turns an experiment into verification.
A. Observation
B. Experiment
C. Raising questions
D. Interaction with environment
(a) A and B only
(b) B and C only
(c) C and D only
(d) A and C only
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Answer: (d) A and C only
Explanation:
1. Bheem noticed the colours of leaves, flowers and fruits (observation).
2. He then asked a question about it (raising questions); he did not experiment.
Teacher's Note:
1. Match each skill to what the child actually does.
2. Asking a question is not an experiment.
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