Chapter 1

Importance of Family

1. The student should list the members of family in his/ her house and write down the work
done by each member of the family.
2. Write down name of person from your family who is your role model and state your relation
with you.
3. Conduct a survey of 10 households in your surrounding and list the number of nuclear and
joint family.
4. Why is the family said to be greatest gift of nature?
5. Fill in the blanks
Help Box

Patience, Family, interaction, message, nurtures, emergency, tradition, energy

a) _________ is the first learning place.

b) The _________ among the family members develops close bonds of love and affection.
c) Each family follows certain customs and ___________.
d) All families give support in times of ________ and helps the sufferer to overcome the
difficulties.
e) Family ____________ the special talents of the members.
f) Always utilise your time and ____________ in improving yourself.
g) Family members tell the children about great personalities, their deeds and _________.
h) The parents and grandparents take care of children with lot of love and _________.
6. Multiple choice questions
A. The __________ for one another are the real strengths of a family.
a) Love b) care and appreciation c) hate
B. _____________ is the first learning place for a child.
a) School b) Family c) Country
C. All families give support in times of __________.
a) Emergency b) happiness c) joy
D. Family nurtures the special _________ of its members
a) Habits b) talent c) none
E. _______ always guide you to grow up into great human being.
a) Parents b) Teacher c) Both
7. State whether given statements are true/false
a) It is important for grown up members of family to practice the value and actions they
want their children to follow.
b) The joint family consists only of parents and children.
c) Every family follows certain customs and traditions.
d) The interaction between family members does not help in developing harmony and
understanding.
e) All family members participate in family activities.
8. What happens due to interaction among family members?
9. What is the real strength of a family?
10. Why do we say the family system works like a chain?
11. What helps in teaching values and passing heritage to future generations?
12. What happens when there is interaction in the family?
13. Who helps you when you are in problem?
14. How can you support an elderly person of your family?
15. Does every member of family have similar likes and dislikes? How are family likes and
dislikes taken care of?
16. How does family help in nurturing special talents of its members?
17. What helps us to select our role-models?
18. What helps us to grow up into great human beings?
19. Name 4 great personalities whose stories children like to hear.
20. Why do the parents check or criticise the behaviour of their child?
21. Differentiate between a nuclear and a joint family.
22. On political map of India, mark and colour
a) State where you live
b) State where your maternal grandparents stay
c) State where your paternal uncle/uncle stay.
 Chapter 2
Human Migration
1. With onset of the pandemic in the year 2020 many people went back to their native places
from the place of work.
a) What is this process of moving back to home town known as?
b) Why did they do it?
2. Every year we hear that some birds like Siberian crane, blue throat were seen in India in
winter months.
a) What are these birds doing and why are they seen in these months only and not all year
around?
3. Ram has an uncle who earlier used to stay next to Ram’s house. He was transferred to
Mumbai and therefore he shifted with his family. What kind of migration was done by Ram’s
uncle?
4. Fill in the blanks
Help –Box

Migrants, Seasons, Voluntary, Man-made, Migration

natural disaster, Producer, Education

a) __________ is the systematic movement from one place to another.

b) The settled life began only after the man became a food________.
c) The orthodox thinking underwent a great change with ________, logical thinking and
contact with other countries.
d) __________ migration may be for better job, educational opportunities or to be close to
family or friends.
e) Forced migration is the movement of a person, family or large group of people due to a
_________________.
f) Some time people are forced to migrate due to ____________ disasters.
g) Animals migrate with change in __________.
h) The ________ face many problems when they move away from their homes and
families.
5. Multiple choice questions
A. Human beings in ancient time moved from one place to other in search of
a) Food b) Shelter c) Both
B. The settled life began for man only after he became food
a) Gatherer b) Producer c) Trader
C. ___________ migration when people move to another place on their choice/will.
a) Forced b) Voluntary c) Seasonal
D. Which of them is not a man-made disaster?
a) Earthquake b) fire c) terrorist activities.
E. The basic problem faced by the migrant labour is
a) Shelter b) Sanitation c) both
6. State whether given statements are true / false
a) Animals migrate to find warmer weather, better food supply or safe place to give birth
to young ones.
b) The migrant labour always has basic amenities like shelter and sanitation.
c) In earlier times people were scared to travel due to difficulties, many myths and
superstitions.
d) Man started growing crop on piece of land till it was fertile and then use to abandon it
and move on to another piece of land.
e) Fire, drought and terrorist activities are natural disasters.
7. In early days man would not have been able to exist without migration, why?
8. What made man settle down?
9. What kind of agriculture did man practice in early days?
10. What is known as ‘ Seven wonders of the Natural world’?
11. What were the reasons for change in orthodox thinking of people about travel?
12. When were the Indians encouraged to migrate and where?
13. Differentiate between voluntary and forced migration.
14. What could cause forced migration?
15. How can man-made disaster cause migration?
16. Why do people carry on voluntary migration?
17. Give 2 examples each of
a) Natural disaster
b) Man-made disaster
18. What made the people to migrate from Kashmir valley in the year 2014? Who helped these
migrants?
19. ‘ Migration is like a chain’ explain.
20. What kind of hardships the labour who migrate with their families to city face?
21. Why do animals migrate with change of seasons?
22. How do the animals know the direction they have to follow during migration?
23. Why do gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir and Dhangers of Maharashtra keep on moving?
24. During the pandemic of Covid-19, many people /labour migrated from big cities like Delhi,
Mumbai to their villages etc
a) Why did the labour migrate?
b) List the hardships they had to face during the migration.
25. On the political map of India locate
a) 2 states to which there was maximum migration during pandemic
b) State from where there has been migration due to terrorist activities.
c) State from where labour migrates for agricultural activities to other state.