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These 29 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.

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1: Select from the following a state where people like to eat sea fish cooked in coconut.
(a) Goa
(b) Telangana
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Jharkhand
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Answer: (a) Goa

Explanation:
1. Goa is coastal, and sea fish cooked with coconut is typical Goan food.
2. The other states are inland.

Teacher's Note:
1. Sea fish needs a coast.
2. Coconut is common in coastal cooking.

Question 2: Teaching of EVS would be more effective if the teacher
(a) has command on his/her subject.
(b) tells objectives to students at the beginning of topic.
(c) uses various meaningful, illustrative and relevant learning resources.
(d) gives home assignment after finishing the topic.
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Answer: (c) uses various meaningful, illustrative and relevant learning resources.

Explanation:
1. EVS is learnt through experience and objects from surroundings.
2. Varied, relevant resources make learning more effective.

Teacher's Note:
1. Subject knowledge is necessary but not specific to EVS.
2. Choose the option about learning resources.

Question 3: Which of the following technique is used in rating scale?
(a) Assignments
(b) Checklist
(c) Observation
(d) Written questions
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Answer: (c) Observation

Explanation:
1. A rating scale is filled in by observing a student's behaviour.
2. So its technique is observation.

Teacher's Note:
1. Both checklist and rating scale are observation tools.
2. A rating scale gives degrees.

Question 4: Which of the following is not a tool for formative assessment of learning in EVS?
(a) Annual Achievement Test
(b) Anecdotal records
(c) Portfolio
(d) Rating Scale
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Answer: (a) Annual Achievement Test

Explanation:
1. Formative tools are used during learning.
2. An annual test is summative.

Teacher's Note:
1. Annual or term tests are summative.
2. Portfolio and anecdotal records track progress.

Question 5: An EVS teacher conducts an experiment related to "what floats and what sinks in water". Which process skill will be developed in the student?
(a) Observation
(b) Recognition
(c) Sensitivity towards water
(d) Understanding
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Answer: (a) Observation

Explanation:
1. Students watch objects float or sink and note the results.
2. This develops observation, a process skill.

Teacher's Note:
1. Process skills include observing, classifying, inferring.
2. Recognition and understanding are not process skills.

Question 6: EVS teaching should encourage process skills, which are the core of inquiry-based hands-on learning. Which of the following is not a skill?
(a) Observing
(b) Inferring
(c) Determining
(d) Predicting
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Answer: (c) Determining

Explanation:
1. Observing, inferring and predicting are standard process skills.
2. Determining is not one of them.

Teacher's Note:
1. Learn the list of science process skills.
2. Read the word 'not'.

Question 7: An educational activity for EVS should
(a) be real-life-based and enjoyable for students.
(b) be of any time duration.
(c) only be teacher-directed in nature.
(d) focus on prescribed content of textbook only.
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Answer: (a) be real-life-based and enjoyable for students.

Explanation:
1. EVS activities connect with real life and engage children.
2. Teacher-only direction and textbook-only focus are against child-centred learning.

Teacher's Note:
1. Good activities are purposeful and joyful.
2. Avoid options with 'only'.

Question 8: The premise of the EVS curriculum is
(a) Constructivist theory
(b) Cognitive theory
(c) Social-Constructivist theory
(d) Behaviourist learning theory
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Answer: (c) Social-Constructivist theory

Explanation:
1. EVS builds on the child's experience in the social and cultural context.
2. This is the social-constructivist view of Vygotsky.

Teacher's Note:
1. NCF 2005 is based on constructivism.
2. EVS gives importance to social context.

Question 9: Project method in teaching-learning of EVS is useful because
(a) it enables a teacher to be a guide and facilitator
(b) it requires a variety of resources.
(c) children are overwhelmed with the "doing and the action" part of project.
(d) it provides an opportunity for work experience and divergent thinking.
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Answer: (d) it provides an opportunity for work experience and divergent thinking.

Explanation:
1. Projects let children work on real tasks and think in different ways.
2. So they offer work experience and divergent thinking.

Teacher's Note:
1. Being a facilitator is true of every child-centred method.
2. Choose the unique benefit.

Question 10: Which of the following are examples of community resources of learning in EVS? Choose the correct group of resources:
(a) University, River, Radio, Computer
(b) Carpenter, Shopkeeper, Teachers, Parents
(c) University, Waste material, Parents, Office
(d) Mobile phone, Newspaper, Jingle, Radio
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Answer: (b) Carpenter, Shopkeeper, Teachers, Parents

Explanation:
1. Community resources are people of the community who can share their work and knowledge.
2. Carpenter, shopkeeper, teachers and parents are such people.

Teacher's Note:
1. Others are material or media resources.
2. Look for a group of human resources.

Question 11: If you find that some students of your class are very bright and intelligent, then how will you teach such students?
(a) No special strategy will be used.
(b) They will be made to sit with higher-class students
(c) They will be taught separately
(d) They will be taught using enriched curriculum.
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Answer: (d) They will be taught using enriched curriculum.

Explanation:
1. Gifted learners need more challenge within the same class.
2. An enriched curriculum gives it without separating them.

Teacher's Note:
1. Prefer enrichment to segregation or acceleration.
2. Inclusive classrooms support all.

Question 12: The feathers of the birds are of different colours, shapes and sizes. Their feathers help them to fly and
A. eat different types of food
B. keep them warm
C. walk in different ways
D. keep them waterproof
(a) B and C
(b) B and D
(c) B, C and D
(d) A, B, C and D
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Answer: (b) B and D

Explanation:
1. Feathers trap air and keep the bird warm (B).
2. Oily feathers repel water (D); they do not help in eating or walking.

Teacher's Note:
1. Beaks help eating and feet help walking.
2. Feathers: flight, warmth, waterproofing.

Question 13: The popular art and craft of Daman and Diu is
(a) Bamboo craft
(b) Warli painting
(c) Stoneware
(d) Tortoise shell craft
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Answer: (d) Tortoise shell craft

Explanation:
1. Daman and Diu is on the coast and its craft uses shell materials.
2. Source key is tortoise shell craft.

Teacher's Note:
1. I could not verify this beyond the source key.
2. Warli is from Maharashtra.

Question 14: Fermentation is conversion of
(a) Sugar into alcohol
(b) Yeast into alcohol
(c) Sugar into CO2
(d) Yeast into CO2
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Answer: (a) Sugar into alcohol

Explanation:
1. In fermentation, yeast acts on sugar and produces alcohol and carbon dioxide.
2. Yeast is the agent, not what is converted.

Teacher's Note:
1. Yeast is a microorganism.
2. Sugar is the substrate.

Question 15: The name of the first Indian woman who reached the peak of Mount Everest and pitched the national flag and took photographs of the event is
(a) Karnam Malleswari
(b) Sunita Williams
(c) Suryamani
(d) Bachendri Pal
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Answer: (d) Bachendri Pal

Explanation:
1. Bachendri Pal climbed Mount Everest in 1984.
2. She was the first Indian woman to do so.

Teacher's Note:
1. Karnam Malleswari is a weightlifter.
2. Sunita Williams is an astronaut.

Question 16: Which of the following is true about an elephant herd?
A. Their herd always has two or more old male elephants in it.
B. Their herd has all male elephants and baby elephants living with female elephants.
C. Male elephants live in the herd till they are 14-15 years old.
D. Their herd has only female and baby elephants.
Choose the correct option:
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) C and D
(d) A and D
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Answer: (c) C and D

Explanation:
1. An elephant herd is made up of females and their young.
2. Male elephants stay only until about 14-15 years of age and then leave, so C and D are true.

Teacher's Note:
1. Elephant herds are led by an old female (matriarch).
2. Do not confuse herd life with the solitary life of adult males.

Question 17: In the textbook for class V a map of Golconda Fort is given. On the right bottom of the map following scale is printed.
Scale 1 cm = 110 metre
If on the map the distance between the Fateh Darwaza and Patancheru Darwaza is 15.2 cm, the actual distance between these two places is
(a) 1.520 km
(b) 1.652 km
(c) 1.672 km
(d) 16.72 km
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Answer: (c) 1.672 km

Explanation:
1. Actual distance = 15.2 × 110 = 1672 m.
2. 1672 m = 1.672 km.

Teacher's Note:
1. Multiply map distance by the scale value, then convert units.
2. Remember 1000 m = 1 km.

Question 18: Petroleum and Coal are known as non-renewable fuels because they
(a) cause pollution
(b) are expensive
(c) are obtained through fractional distillation
(d) take many years to form
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Answer: (d) take many years to form

Explanation:
1. Non-renewable resources cannot be replaced in a human time span.
2. Petroleum and coal take millions of years to form.

Teacher's Note:
1. Renewable means replenished quickly.
2. Pollution or cost does not define non-renewable.

Question 19: Three Indian states having coast on the Arabian Sea are
(a) Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh
(b) Maharashtra, Karnataka, Puducherry
(c) Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala
(d) Telangana, Kerala, Karnataka
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Answer: (c) Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala

Explanation:
1. The Arabian Sea touches Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.
2. Only Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala are all on it.

Teacher's Note:
1. Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry are on the east coast.
2. Telangana is landlocked.

Question 20: Madhubani is a famous
A. Lake in Rajasthan
B. Shawl from Bihar
C. Woven saree from Andhra Pradesh
D. Form of folk art Paintings from Bihar
E. Place in Bihar
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) B, D and E
(d) D and E
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Answer: (d) D and E

Explanation:
1. Madhubani is a town in Bihar.
2. It is famous for Madhubani folk paintings, so D and E are correct.

Teacher's Note:
1. Madhubani art is also called Mithila painting.
2. Match art forms with their regions.

Question 21: Shobhit observes a picture in a book where girls are shown playing with pebbles and boys are shown playing cricket. He asks his teacher why boys and girls are playing separately? Why are boys not playing pebbles? Why are girls not playing cricket?
Which of the following EVS teaching objectives are included in this event?
A. Development of higher level critical thinking.
B. Development of broad cultural attitude and aesthetic sensitivity.
C. Development of an understanding based on observation and picturization.
D. Development of cognitive ability for generating curiosity about a social event.
(a) A, B and C
(b) B, C and D
(c) A, B and D
(d) A, C and D
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Answer: (d) A, C and D

Explanation:
1. Shobhit observes a picture (C) and questions a social practice (A).
2. His questions show curiosity about a social event (D).

Teacher's Note:
1. Questioning gender roles builds critical thinking.
2. Aesthetic sensitivity is not the focus here.

Question 22: Which of the following statements are the correct description of the nature of assessment?
A. It is a part of teaching-learning process, that is continuous.
B. It acquaints about the achievement level of students and what they don't know.
C. It diagnoses the hindrances in learning and helps in their removal.
D. It acquaints about the tendency to learn, interests and prior experiences of students.
(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: (c) A, C and D

Explanation:
1. Assessment is continuous and part of teaching-learning (A).
2. It diagnoses learning hindrances (C) and shows interests and prior experience (D).

Teacher's Note:
1. Assessment is for learning, not only of learning.
2. The key given by the source is accepted.

Question 23: As EVS teacher of class V, in the chapter 'Walls Tell Stories' you need to introduce learners to historical monuments, which method you think will suit best?
(a) Virtual tours, online games and quiz related to historical monuments
(b) Passage reading on historical monuments
(c) Visits to local historical monuments followed by discussion
(d) Lecture discussion method to explain the past of historical monuments
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Answer: (c) Visits to local historical monuments followed by discussion

Explanation:
1. Direct experience of real monuments is most meaningful.
2. A visit followed by discussion lets children observe and reflect.

Teacher's Note:
1. Prefer first-hand experience over virtual or lecture methods.
2. Follow-up discussion consolidates learning.

Question 24: A teacher asked students to draw an ant. Some students made 4 legs of ant while some made 6 and some 8 legs. What should the teacher do?
(a) Tell them that ants have 6 legs and not 4 or 8 legs
(b) Tell them that students who made 6 legs are correct and all other students are wrong
(c) Show them a picture of an ant and ask them to observe the number of legs
(d) Give them a magnifying lens and ask to them observe the number of legs in an ant
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Answer: (d) Give them a magnifying lens and ask to them observe the number of legs in an ant

Explanation:
1. Children should discover facts through their own observation.
2. A magnifying lens lets them closely observe and count the legs themselves.

Teacher's Note:
1. Avoid simply telling the answer.
2. Observation tools support inquiry.

Question 25: Yash asked his teacher, "Why some food-product packets are labelled with red while some food-product packets are labelled with green dot?". Teacher explained that green dot indicates vegetarian food while red dot indicates non-vegetarian food. She asked students to observe the various food-product packets and enlist them as vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Which of the following processes are involved in this activity?
A. Identification
B. Imagination
C. Bias
D. Classification
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) C and D
(d) A and D
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Answer: (d) A and D

Explanation:
1. Students identify the dot on each packet (A).
2. They then group packets as vegetarian or non-vegetarian (D).

Teacher's Note:
1. Classification means grouping by a common feature.
2. No imagination or bias is needed.

Question 26: As an EVS teacher, you decide to familiarise students with contemporary issues related to environment. Which one of the following would you prefer?
(a) Ask students to watch news channels
(b) Ask students to subscribe to newspapers at home
(c) Relate relevant articles in class and also share them
(d) Talk to parents to ensure newspaper reading at home
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Answer: (c) Relate relevant articles in class and also share them

Explanation:
1. The teacher can select age-appropriate articles.
2. Relating and sharing them in class lets discussion happen.

Teacher's Note:
1. Teacher-guided use of material is better than leaving it to home.
2. Selection matters for young learners.

Question 27: John is forming animal shadows with the help of his hands and asks students to guess which animal is being formed in the shadow. Which of the following processes are involved in this activity?
A. Prediction
B. Observation
C. Inference
D. Description
(a) A, B and D
(b) A, B and C
(c) C and D
(d) A and D
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Answer: (b) A, B and C

Explanation:
1. Students observe the shadow shape (B).
2. They infer from it and predict the animal (A, C).

Teacher's Note:
1. Science process skills include observing, inferring and predicting.
2. Nobody describes anything here.

Question 28: Integrated perspective in EVS denotes which of the following?
(a) Draw insights from science and social studies
(b) Draw insights from social studies and environment education
(c) Draw insights from science and environment education
(d) Draw insights from science, social studies and environment education
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Answer: (d) Draw insights from science, social studies and environment education

Explanation:
1. EVS combines science, social studies and environment education.
2. Integration draws on all three.

Teacher's Note:
1. EVS is not a single-subject approach.
2. Integration reflects NCF thinking.

Question 29: Rini asked his teacher, "Why are the stems of plants round and not square shaped?" What should the teacher do?
A. Teacher should tell students that they will learn about this in higher classes.
B. Teacher should explain students that the reason of round stems is the gravity.
C. Teacher should ask students to think about the reason for the round shape of stem.
D. Teacher should take students for a garden visit and ask to observe the shape of various stems.
(a) A and B
(b) B and C
(c) C and D
(d) A and D
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Answer: (c) C and D

Explanation:
1. Good teachers encourage thinking and observation.
2. C invites thinking and D lets children observe stems; A and B avoid or misstate.

Teacher's Note:
1. Never give a wrong explanation such as gravity.
2. Do not postpone children's questions.

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