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       Food Security in India Exercises 1. How is food security ensured in India ?   Answers:         Since the advent of the Green Revolution in the early-1970s, the country has avoided famine even during adverse weather conditions. India has become self-sufficient in food grains during the last 30 years because of a variety of crops grown all over the country. The availability of foodgrains (even in adverse weather conditions or otherwise) at the country level has further been ensured with a carefully designed food security system by components: a) buffer stock, and b) public distribution system. 2. Which are the people more prone to food insecurity ?     Answers:          Although a large section of people suffer from food and nutrition insecurity in India, the worst affected groups are landless people with little or no land to depend upon, traditional artisans, providers of traditional services, petty self-employed workers and destitutes including beggars. In the urban areas, the f

                    Natural Vegetation and Wildlife 1. Choose the right answer 1. To which one of the following types of vegetation does rubber belong to ? a) Tundra.  b) Tidal. c) Himalayan.  d) Tropical Evergreen   Answer:- d) Tropical Evergreen 2. Cinchona trees are found in the areas of rainfall more than a) 100cm.  b) 50cm. c)70cm.  d) less than 50cm.   Answer:- a) 100cm. 3. In which of the following state is the Simlipal bio-reserve located ? a) Punjab.  b) Delhi. c) Odisha d)West Bengal Answer:- c) Odisha 4. Which one of the following bio-reserves of India is not included in the world network of bioreserve ?  a) Manas  b) Nilgiri.  c) Gulf of Mannar. d) Nanda Devi Answer:- b) Nilgiri 2 . Answer the following questions briefly.  i. Define an ecosystem Answer:      All the plants and animals are in interdependent on each other.The plant's and animals, along with their physical environment make the ecosystem.      ii. What factors are responsible for the distribution of plants

          Rain on the Roof Thinking about the poem I.1. What do the following phrases mean to you? Discuss in class (i) humid shadows Answer:      Humid shadow refer to the dark clouds that produce rain. (ii) Starry spheres  Answer:      Starry spheres refers to happiness of the poet . When it rains poet gets into his cottage and enjoy the pattern of rain upon the roof. ( iii) What a bliss Answer:      What a bliss refers to the night sky abounding in stars. (iv) A thousand dream fancies into busy being start. Answer:       A thousand dream fancies into you busy being start means various imaginary thoughts and fantasies that are are roused in the poet's mind. (v) A thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof. Answer:      A thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof means that numerous memories intermingle to form a beautiful picture that the poet recollects. 2. What does the poet like to do when it rains? Answer:      When it rains, the poet feels deligh

          No Men Are Foreign. Thinking about the poem 1.(i) " Beneath all uniforms....." What uniforms do you think the poet is speaking about? Answer:-      The poet speaks about the various dresses that people of various countries where but beneath them the human body  is same. (ii) How does the poet suggest that       all people on earth are the same? Answer:-      The poet says that      nobody is different and peculiar. No  country is foreign. A single body breathes and beneath all uniforms. Moreover, the land is same everywhere. 2. In stanza 1,find five ways in which we all are alike.Pick out the words. Answer:-       In the first stanza the poet says that there is no difference between the body of a citizen of one country and the citizen of another country. We have same kind of body ; we were same kind of clothes .we walk on the same planet and the end of all individuals is the same.   3. How many common features can you find in stanza 2 ? Pick out the words. Answer:-

        My Childhood Thinking about the text 1. Answer this question in one or two sentence . 1. Where was Abdul Kalam's house? Answer:      Abdul Kalam' house was on the mosque street in Rameshwaram. 2.What do you think Dinamani is the name of. Give a reason for your answer? Answer:      Dinamani is the name of a local newspaper. It is so because Kalam traced the stories of the war in the  head lives in Dinamani. 3. Who were Abdul Kalam's school friends? What did they later became? Answer:-       Ramanadha Sastry,Aravindan and shivaprakasan were Abdul Kalam's school friends. Ramanadha Sastry become the high priest of the Rameshwaram temple, Aravindan a transport business man and shivaprakasan was the catering contractor for the Southern railway . 4. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages? Answer:       During the second World war, the newspaper where bundled and thrown out of a moving train. Abdul Kalam earn his first wages by helping his cousin, who distribute newsp

  India - Size And Location 1. Choose the right answer 1 The tropic of cancer does not pass through ? a) Rajasthan.  b) chhattisgarh. c) Odisha. d) Tripura  Answer:- c) Odisha 2. The eastern most longitude of India is ? a)97°25'E.   b) 77°6'E.   c)68°7'E. d) 82°32'E  Answer:- a) 97°25'E 3. Uttrakhand, Uttar Pradesh,Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim have common Frontiers with? a) China. b) Bhutan. c) Nepal. d) Myanmar  Answer:- c) Nepal  4. If you intend to visit kavarati during your summer vacation , which of the following union territories of India you will be going to ?  a) Puducherry.  b) Lakshadweep. c) Andaman and Nicobar. d) Daman and Diu Answer:- b) Lakshadweep  5. My friend hails  from a country which does not share land boundary with India . identify the country. a) Bhutan. b) Tajikistan.c) Bangladesh. d) Nepal  Answer:- b) Tajikistan  2 . Answer the following questions briefly.  1. Name the group of island lying in the Arabian sea ? Answer:- Lakshadweep . 2. N