Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
(i) What important cultural features do you observe while going to school?
Are they similar or dissimilar? Should they be included in the study of geography or not? If yes, why?
(ii) You have seen a tennis ball, a cricket ball, an orange and a pumpkin.
Which one amongst these resembles the shape of the earth? Why have you chosen this particular item to describe the shape of the earth?
(iii) Do you celebrate Van Mahotsava in your school? Why do we plant so many trees? How do the trees maintain ecological balance?
(iv) You have seen elephants, deer, earthworms, trees and grasses. Where do
they live or grow? What is the name given to this sphere? Can you describe some of the important features of this sphere?
(v) How much time do you take to reach your school from your house? Had the school been located across the road from your house, how much time would you have taken to reach school? What is the effect of the distance between your residence and the school on the time taken in commuting?
Can you convert time into space and vice versa?
(i) The features that I observe while going to school are roads, buildings, vehicles, shops, temples, hospitals etc.
They are dissimilar and they should be included in the study of geography as these things are part and parcel of man’s living or related to human geography.
(ii) The Earth is flat at the poles and has a bulge at the equator. The correct shaope of the Earth is Geoid.
An Orange closes resembles with that of the Earth while cricket ball is too round and pumpkin is a little long and more flat.
(iii) Yes, our school celebrate Van Mahotsava in the first week of July where every student plant a tree.
Trees are the lungs of the Earth which filter the air and also help to form rain. Without trees no-one could survive on the Earth. It takes in carbon dioxide and gives out oxygen which we breathe and thereby maintains the ecological balance.
(iv) The animals like elephant, deer, earthworm; trees and grasses grow on the surface of this Earth. This sphere is known as Biosphere.
Features of Biosphere:-
• It is the layer of water, air and land which forms the ecosystem for the survival of living organism
• Transfer of energy i.e. food chain take place.
(v) It takes approximately 40 minutes to each my school from my house.
It would have taken 1 minute if my school was located across the road from my house and it would have saved a lot of time which takes for travelling.
The lesser time it takes for travel, the more time I can invest in studies and other activities. Travelling for longer distance not only kills time but also energy of the body.
Yes it can be shown that space can be converted into time and vice versa.