Chapter 16 Water Solutions

Maharashtra State Board Class 5 EVS Solutions Part 1 Chapter 16 Water

5th Std EVS 1 Digest Chapter 16 Water Textbook Questions and Answers

1. What’s the solution?

2. Use your brain power!

3. Answer the following questions in brief:

Question (a)
What conditions prevail during a famine?
Answer:

Question (b)
What works are undertaken to make water available even after the rainy season?
Answer:
Severals works are undertaken to make water available even after the rainy season like
1. Large dams are built.
2. Smaller reservoirs are built,
3. Contour bunding and constructing bunds on smaller streams.

Question (c)
Why is it necessary to stop rainwater?
Answer:
1. We get rain for only four months in a year. If rainwater is not stored, we will not have water for our daily needs after the rains.
2. So in order to meet the whole year’s need for water, rainwater must be stopped.

Question (d)
What is meant by water management?
Answer:
Taking steps to ensure that rainwater will be available even in the period after the rainy season is called water management.

4. True or False? Correct the wrong statements:

Question (a)
We get rainwater throughout the year.
Answer:
False. We get rainwater for only four months in a year.

Question (b)
During a famine, the government moves people and animals temporarily to safe places.
Answer:
True.

Environmental Studies Part 1 Standard 5th Solutions Chapter 16 Water Additional Important Questions and Answers

Fill in the blanks with the correct answers from the options given below:

Answer in one sentence:

Answer the following questions in brief:

Can you tell?

Question (A)
List the substances that are mixed in the waste water drained out of the kitchen and bathroom in your house.
Answer:
Shampoo, soap, washing detergents, waste food particles, oil and grease from washed utensils, dirt and grime from soiled colthes.

Water Works:

Question (B)
If at some place, it did not rain for a very long time, what would be its effect on the life of the people there?
Answer:
Due to scarcity of water there will be drought – like condition.
The people and animals will die of thirst and hunger.
Plants and farms will wither and die therefore no food will be available. This will lead to famine.

Can you recall?

Glossary: