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Human beings love to live together with friends, families, and community. A community is a group of people who live together with shared values, practices, and beliefs. It is a great place to learn many good things from others. A community has many features depending on whether it is a tribal community, rural community, or urban community. In this lesson, we will be learning some important question-and-answer discussions related to the types of communities, their features, problems, and facilities available in rural , urban and tribal communities. 

Answer the following 

 1. Here is a picture of a village. Look, don’t you see many houses?

Answer: Yes, this is a beautiful picture of a village with many houses. Since it is a village, it belongs to the rural community.

 2. What are the features of the community according to Ravi’s story?
Answer: According to the Ravi's story, the features of the community are:

  1. Ravi belongs to a rural community (village community)
  2. All workers are agri–laborers in this community.
  3. Members help each other.
  4. Ravi's father is an old man so he is dependent on others for his work.

 3. Write the aspects identified by you in the given pictures.

Answer: In the given pictures, I can find three types of communities. They are rural community, urban communities in the second picture and the last one is tribal community.

  1. In the rural community, I can see pictures of fields, farms, and livestock. Most of the people here work as farmers. According to the pictures, houses here are made of natural materials like bamboo, mud, grass and stone. 
  2. In the urban community, I see that there is heavy traffic, roads are full of vehicles, and buildings are very tall and are modern in looks. 
  3. In the third picture is the tribal community as I see people live in forests. They are wearing traditional clothes and they have hunting instruments in their hands. They live in huts.

 4. Differentiate between agricultural and non-agricultural activities in the following

Answer:  Agricultural activities involve farming and livestock rearing. The common things that farmers do are as follows:

  1. Sowing seeds into the soil
  2. Ploughing
  3. Irrigation or supplying water to crops.
  4. Removing weeds or waste plants from fields
  5. Use of chemical sprays to kill pests and insects.
  6. Harvesting or cutting the crop

Non-Agricultural activities do not involve farming. Some of these are as follows:

  1. Pottery work
  2. Knitting and basket weaving
  3. Craftwork
  4. Welding, cutting and painting iron equipment
  5. Black smiting
  6. Carpentry work

5. Write the various occupations that people of cities do.
Answer:

  1. Office work
  2. Manufacturing goods.
  3. Computers work. 

6. Write the various occupations found in villages
Answer: Dairy, fishery, sericulture, weaving, blacksmithing, carpentry, basket weaving, pottery, craftwork, etc.

7. What are the problems faced by people in villages?
Answer:  Most village people live in small houses where there are no proper basic facilities such as water, electricity, and sanitation. They also face problems with health care, education, transportation, and  jobs.

 8. Write any one program, implemented by the government for rural development.
Answer: Rozgar Yojana and Jawahar Gram Samruddhi Yojana for educated youth in villages to set up their own small scale industries. Other projects includes Vikas Yojana (RSVY), the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY), the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY).

 9. What programs have been introduced for the upliftment of villages by the state and central government?
Answer:

  1. Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Yojana
  2. Bhagyalakshmi scheme.
  3. Aashraya scheme.
  4. Jawahar gram samruddhi scheme.
  5. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
  6. Nirmala gram yojana.

10. What do you see when you visit a city?
Answer: I see a lot of traffic, huge buildings, proper roads, a lot of schools and colleges, many companies 

11. Look at the pictures given below. Write what kind of job these people are engaged in. Do you find these people in your locality?

Put (?) if yes.

12. What are the problems you face, if you are living in a city?
Answer

  1. A lot of traffic
  2. Improper drainage system/sewage system.
  3. Polluted drinking water.
  4. Congested living place.
  5. Housing problem in cities
  6. Air pollution due to smoke from vehicles and industrial areas
  7. Noise pollution

13. Discuss the environmental hazards due to the development of cities.
Answer:

  1. A lot of farming land becomes industrialized causing unhealthy life in villages also.
  2. Industrial wastes are released into the water causing pollution.
  3. Health problems such as stress, high BP and headaches due to noise pollution.
  4. The greenery of cities will be damaged which will increase the temperature of cities.
  5. Crime rate will be much high  in cities. 

  14.What are the programmes launched by the state and the central government for making life in urban areas better?
Answer:

  1. Construction of highways, flyovers and railways.
  2. Government-owned housing complexes.
  3. Installation of free drinking water plants.
  4. Development of parks in each areas.
  5. Construction of well-planned bus stations.
  6. Repairing and building new roads around the city.

15. Identify the occupation of the Tribals in the given picture and write them in the space given.

Answers:

  1. Picture1- killing animals by tribal people (Buffalo)
  2. Picture 2- Honey collection
  3. Picture 3-Bamboo basket weaving
  4. Picture 4-Plantation

16. Which tribal community do you know?
Answer:

  1. Soligas of Mysore district.
  2. Koragas of Dakshina Kannada.
  3. Jenu kurubas and Yeravas of Kodagu.

 17. Look at the Pictures. Who are they?

 Answer: 

  1. Trader
  2. Sports person
  3. Painter
  4. Singer
  5. Toy maker
  6. Players
  7. Artists
  8. News reader
  9. Dancers 

18.Here are pictures of some achievers. Who are they? Can you identify and write the field of their achievement.

  1. Lata Mangeshkar-Singer
  2. Bismillah Khan-Flutist
  3. Bhimsen Joshi- Hindustani classical singer

19. Explain the situation in the following picture.

  1. All are bathing in a pond which is used for cattle washing and cloth washing which is very unhygenic. 
  2. Fishing is also done in the same pond, which is not good for health.
  3. People are crossing the pond by walk which is not safe. 
EVS lesson community Quiz Questions:

1. People who live in villages are called 

  1. Rural community
  2. Urban community
  3. Tribal community

Answer: A. Rural Community

  • 2. Hunting animals and honey collection are commonly seen in 
    1. Urban community
    2. Rural community
    3. Tribal community

    Answer: C. Tribal community

  • 3. The program that aims at  the  cleanliness of villages is
    1. Swachch Bharatha Abhiyan.
    2. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
    3. Aashraya yojana.
    4. Nirmal gram yojana.

    Answer: A. Swachch Bharatha Abhiyan.

  • 4.A country cannot progress unless villages progress, said by
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Nehru
    3. Manmohan Singh
    4. Rajeev Gandhi.

    Answer A. Mahatma Gandhi

    True or false questions
    1.  Rural communities have more population than urban
    2. The urban community has very few facilities for education and health
    3. Pukka houses are very common in the rural community
    4. Honeybee rearing is a non-agricultural activity.
    5. The urban community has more wealthy people than the rural community
    6. Traffic is a major problem in villages
    Answers 
    1. False
    2. False
    3. False
    4. False
    5. True
    6. False