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• Provide the suitable term that expresses the meaning of each of the following statements.(a) Greeting cards made from newspaper.(b) Contents of the waste bins.(c) Worms converting certain kinds of waste into manure.(d) An area where a lot of garbage is collected, spread out and covered with soil.
• To what use can you put the following kinds of garbage and how?(i) rotting smelly garbage(ii) dry leaves collected in a garbage(iii) old newspapers
• Given below are steps in vermicomposting and each step has been given an alphabet. Rearrange the steps in the correct sequence and write the alphabets on the chart provided. One step is done for you.F Dig a pit in a suitable place in your garden.C Spread sand on the floor of the pit.E Add vegetable peels and fruits waste in the pit.A Sprinkle water to keep it moist.D Place red worms in the pit.B Cover with a gunny bag or grass.Step 1 - F2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -
• Beera, a farmer would clear his field everyday, and burn dry leaves fallen on the ground. After sometime he found that those living in huts near his field were suffering from cough and breathing problems. (i) Can you explain why? (ii) Also suggest an environment friendly way to dispose the dry leaves.
• Read the poem written below and then answer the questions from the information gathered from the book or elsewhere.(i) Name the two kinds of waste that need to be separated from each other in two different waste bins.(ii) Name two items of waste each that need to be sent to a(a) landfill, (b) for composting.
• Correct the definitions of certain terms given below by changing only one word.(i) Compost: Substances converted into manure for use in industries.(ii) Landfill: Garbage buried under water in an area.(iii) Recycling: Reuse of unused material in the same or another form.
• Read the items mentioned in Columns I and II and fill in the related process in the Column IIICOLUMN ICOLUMN IICOLUMN III(A) Organic WasteEarrthworms(i) ................(b) GarbageDig Pit and fill With garbage(ii) ...............(c) Old newspaperpaper bags(iii) ...............
• The pie charts A and B shown in Fig. 16.1 are based on waste segregation method adopted by two families X and Y respectively.Which of the two families X or Y do you think is more environmentally conscious and why?
• Put a tick (√) against the garbage items given in Table 16.1 which could be converted into manure. Put a cross (×) against the others.Garbage ItemsMake manure or not(i)Egg(ii)Straw(iii)Dry flowers(iv)Pebbles(v)Broken Pieces of glass(vi)Nails and screws(vii)Plastic bangles(viii)Left over food(ix)Steel broken vessel(x)Dead animals
• Write 3 sentences on what comes to your mind when you chance to see the following.(a) A rag picker.(b) A cow eating a polythene bag.(c) Foul odour emanating from garbage at the entrance of your house.