RBSE Solutions for Class 5 EVS Chapter 24 A Visit to Mountains

Rajasthan Board RBSE Solutions for Class 5 EVS Chapter 24 A Visit to Mountains Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

RBSE Class 5 EVS Solutions Chapter 24 A Visit to Mountains

RBSE Class 5 EVS A Visit to Mountains Textbook Questions and Answers

Think and Give the Answers of the following

Question 1.
Have you ever tried to climb a mountain?
Answer: 
Yes. 

 

Question 2. 
What is the difference between walking on a road and climbing a mountain?
Answer: 
There is steep slope on the mountains so it is risky, and it needs more energy, while roads are flat so it is easy to walk on them. Walk-ing on roads requires less energy.

Points for Discussion

Question 1
You must have tried to reach any temple situated on a mountain in your nearby area. Who were the other people along with you at that time ? What were the instructions given to you by them, narrate your experiences. 
Answer: 
Fortunately, during last holidays after final examination. I visited the famous ‘Trinetra Ganesh Temple’ in Ranthamboure, Sawai Madhopur alongwith my family members and our hosts of the place who happened to be our uncles and their family. My uncle had given us prior instructions about the rules of the temple campus. Plucking of flowers, running here and there, making a loud noise were completely pro¬hibited. We followed the rules like others and received blessings of priests of the temple.

Think and Write the Answers of the following :

Question 1. 
Why do we feel breathless while climbing the mountains?
Answer: 
We feel breathless because there is low pressure at high altitude.

Question 2. 
Have you ever made a trip to any mountain? If yes, then discuss and write about your experiences.
Answer: 
Yes, once I went to visit Yaishno Mata temple, then I had a chance 6f a trip to the mountain. When we started climbing the mountain, I felt that walking on a hilly road requires more energy. My grandmother took frequent breaks when she felt tired of walking. She sat down at many places. It was very cold there, and green¬ery was seen all around. At some places, there were small cascades too. The natural atmosphere was very pleasant there.

Think and Answer the following :

Question 1. 
What difficulties do mountaineers face while climbing?
Answer: 
Mountaineers have to face the following difficulties while dimbing-

1. They face difficulty in breathing due to low pressure at high altitude.
2. It is difficult to climb due to its steep slopes, extreme cold weather, and icy winds.
3. It is risky due to landslides also.
4. They also face food scarcity problems.

Question 2. 
How the arrangements of food would have been made for these people?
Answer: 
The mountaineers carry along with them some dry food items, and preserved food items which don’t get spoilt very soon, and thus they make arrangement of food for two months.

Explore and Write the Answers of the following :

Question 1. 
Why do the people wear black glasses while climbing a mountain?
Answer:
The people (mountaineers) wear black glasses to protect their eyes from the reflection of sunlight falling on snow because the bright¬ness is acute.

Question 2
What do the mountaineers wear on hands while climbing a mountain?
Answer: 
Mountaineers wear gloves on their hands while climbing a mountain.

Question 3. 
Why do people take pointed stick with them while climbing mountain?
Answer: 
Pointed stick is helpful in walking on snow because it does not slip on the snow. Therefore mountainers take pointed stick with them while climbing mountain.

Question 4. 
What is the use of pointed nails in a mountaineer’s shoes?
Answer: 
Pointed nails (spikes) in a - mountaineers’s shoes help him in climbing on the snow-covered mountain. It makes the climbing less difficult.

Explore and Give Answers of the following:

Question 1. 
Who was the eldest women moun-taineer to join the Mount Everest campaign?
Answer: 
Premlata Agarwal (48 years).

Question 2. 
Who was the youngest woman to get victory over the Mount Everest?
Answer: 
Santosh Yadav (20 years). 

Explore and Write the. Answers

Question 1. 
What is a landslide?
Answer: 
The sudden fall of rocks or large stones down the side of a mountain, is called landslide.

Question 2. 
If you or anybody in your surroundings has been involved in some courageous work, then write about it in your notebook and narrate it to your class.
Answer: 
To be done by the students themselves.

Think and Give Answers of the following

Question 1. 
What are the harmful effects of the increasing trash on the mountains?
Answer: 
It causes harm to the environment of that place.

Question 2. 
What equipments do the moun-taineers carry?
Answer: 
Mountaineers carry dry fruits, preserved food, cord, hook, stick, iron-nails, hammer, belt, chain, torch, whistle, gloves, sleeping bag, oxygen cylinder, etc.

Question 3. 
What difficulties and dangers the mountaineers would have to face during mountaineering?
Answer: 
The mountaineers would have to face many difficulties and dangers, such as danger of falling ill due to cold weather and icy wind, diffi-culty in breathing due to low pressure at high altitude, danger due to hilly wild animals, short¬age of food, landslide, etc. 

Points for Discussion :

Question 1. 
Assume that you have been selected for mountaineering then what preparations you would make for it? Such as material, practice, etc.
Answer: 
We would collect the things required for mountaineering such as special dress (suitable for mountaineering), gloves, sticks, pointed iron nails, pointed shoes, dry and preserved food items, cords, hooks, hammer, torch, sleeping bag, etc., and before some days we will check our blood pressure, etc. We will practise walking on foot, and will gather other important information related to mountaineering.

Question 2. 
If you have visited any tourist place, then write your experience about the trash there. What suggestions will you give to prevent the scattering of trash?
Answer: 
Once, I got a chance to visit such a tourist place along vith my family. I was de-lighted to see the beauty, greenery, valleys of flowers, etc., there. But it was very painful to see that the tourists had left trash there such as empty cAnswer: plastic bottles, wrappers, plastic bags, paper, disposable plates, glasses etc. This trash was causing great harm to the environment of that place.
 
The following suggestions can be given to prevent the scattering of trash-

1. At tourist places, enough number of the dustbins should be placed.
2. Foodstuffs should be packed in paper, not in plastic and polythene bags, because paper gets destroyed very soon.
3. Tourists should be advised or allowed to bring least possible things with them.
4. Public awareness should be created. Importance of cleanliness should be explained as much as possible. Trash causes pollution, so harmful effects of environmental pollution should be explained as much as possible.
5. Plastic bags or polythenes bags should be completely banned at tourist places.

Learnt, Understood and Now Tell

Question 1. 
What type of difficulties a person has to face during mountaineering?
Answer: 
Mountaineering is a very difficult and risky mission. A person has to face its steep slopes, cold weather, icy winds, and difficulty in breathing due to low pressure at high altitude. Besides this, there is danger of landslides too.

Question 2. 
What essential qualities a moun-taineer should have?
Answer: 
A mountaineer should have some essential qualities like discipline, patience, capability to take risk and tolerance.

Question 3. 
Write the names of few mountain peaks of the world.
Answer: 
(i) Mount Everest 
(ii) K-2 (Mount Godwin Austin) 
(iii) Annapurna 
(iv) Aconcagua 
(v) Mount Albert 
(vi) Mount Elbrus
(vii) Mount Mckinley
(viii) Mount Rainier etc.

Question 4. 
Why does a mountaineer require an oxygen cylinder?
Answer: 
Moutaineers have to carry an oxygen cylinder along with them to breathe properly.

RBSE Class 5 EVS A Visit to Mountains Important Questions and Answers

Objective Type Questions

Question 1. 
Choose the right option-
(i) Height of the Mount Everest is-
(a) 1841 meters 
(b) 85000 meters 
(c) 8848 meters 
(d) 13,125 meters
Answer:
(c) 8848 meters 

(ii) Who is the first Indian women to get victory over the Mount Mckinley? 
(a) Santosh Yadav
(b) Bachendri Pal
(c) Tenzing
(d) Premlata Agarwal
Answer:
(d) Premlata Agarwal

(iii) Who has the honour to be the first youngest women mountaineer?
(a) Santosh Yadav
(b) Bachendri Pal
(c) Sunita Williams
(d) Premlata Agarwal
Answer:
(a) Santosh Yadav

(iv) Who was the first womdn to climb the Mount Everest?
(a) Santosh Yadav
(b) Bachendri Pal
(c) Anjali
(d) Premlata Agarwal 
Answer:
(b) Bachendri Pal

Question 2. 
Fill in the blanks-
(a) The world’s highest peak is ..............
(b) The peak was named Mount Everest after. .............. 
(c)  .............. is difficult due to low pressure at high altitude.
(d) The mountaineer Premlata Agarwal was bom in ..............   
(e) Santosh Yadav was bom in village Joniya in the district .............. of Haryana state.
Answer:
(a) Mount Everest 
(b) Sir George Everest 
(c) Breathing 
(d) Jugatlai 
(e) Rewari.

Question 3. 
Match Column A with Column B :

Column A	Column B
Mount Everest	Premlata Agarwal
Móunt Mckinley	The highest peak
Santosh Yadav	Uttarakhand
Bachendri Pal	Haryana

Answer:

Column A	Column B
Mount Everest	The highest peak
Móunt Mckinley	Premlata Agarwal
Santosh Yadav	Haryana
Bachendri Pal	Uttarakhand

Question 4. 
State True/False :
(i) To maintain cleanliness at public places is our duty.
(ii) Mountaineers should be disciplined.
(iii) Premlata Agarwal studied at Maharani College, Jaipur.
(iv) Mountaineering is extremely difficult and risky.
(v) Bachendri Pal was bom in Rajasthan.
Answer:
(i) True 
(ii) True 
(iii) False 
(iv) True
(v) False.

Very Short Answer Type Questions :

Question 1. 
Where does the Mount Everest lie?
Answer: 
It lies on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

Question 2. 
How much times did Hillary and Sherpa take to reach the Mount Everest ?
Answer: 
Two months.

Question 3. 
Which country did Edmund IE”-ry belong to?
Answer: 
New Zealand.

Question 4. 
Which country did Tenzing Sharpa belong to?
Answer: 
Nepal.

Question 5. 
Who discovered that the Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak in the world?
Answer: 
Sir George Everest.

Question 6. 
Where was the mountaineer Premlata Agarwal born?
Answer: 
In Jugatlai, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand).

Question 7. 
When did Preamlata Agarwal climb Mount Everest?
Answer: 
20 May 2011 at 9: 35 a.m.

Question 8. 
At what age Premlata Agarwal got associated with mountaineering? '
Answer: 
At the age of 35 years.

Question 9. 
Who was the first women of the world who climbed the Mount Everest from Kangshung side?
Answer: 
Santosh Yadav successfully climbed the Mount Everest from Kangshung side.

Question 10. 
At which college Santosh Yadav studied?
Answer: 
Maharani College, Jaipur.

Question 11. 
Who' was the first youngest woman mountaineer?
Answer: 
Santosh Yadav.

Question 12. 
When was Bachendri Pal born?
Answer: 
24 May 1954

Question 13. 
Who was the first woman to step on Everest?
Answer: 
Bachendripal

Short/Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1. 
What do you know about the Mount Everest?
Answer: 
The Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak of the world. Its height is 8848 meters. It lies at the border of Nepal and Tibet. It is named after Sir George Everest because he was the person who discovered that Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak of the world.

Question 2. 
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Sharpa were the first persons to reach the world’s highest peak the Mount Everest. Explain.
Answer: 
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Sherpa reached the highest mountain peak of the world, the Mount Everest. They took two months to reach there. They put the flags of their countries there. There, Tenzing performed puja too. They stayed there for 15 minutes.

Question 3. 
What do you know about mountaineer Prermlata Agarwal?
Answer: 
The mountaineer Premlata Agarwal was bom in Jugatlai, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand). She started mountaineering at the ageof 35 years. She got the honour of reaching the Mount Everest peak at the age of 48 years. Then, at the age of 50 years, she got a new achievement by getting victory over the Mount Mckinley situated in Alaska of North America.

Question 4. 
Describe about the mountaineer Santosh Yadav.
Answer: 
Santosh Yadav was bom in a village Joniyawas in the ditrict Rewari in Haryana state. She became successful on climbing the Mount Everest first in May 1992, and then, in May 1993. She is the first youngest women of the world who climbed the Mount Everest.

Question 5. 
What incident occured with Bachendri Pal at the time of mountaineer¬ing?
Answer: 
During mountaineering when her team was resting in a tent at the height of24000 feet, right then, there was a loud noise. Bachendri Pal suddenly came under a very heavy weight, it was a heavy landslide. The land got displaced. As death was in front of them. She badly got hurt at the back side of her head. All her team members were also injured. All the other mem¬bers of the team returned back. However, she didn’t give up. She continued her journey (moun¬taineering) with other team.

Question 6. 
Explain the adventure expenditions of mountaineeing of Bachendripal.
Answer: 
Bachendripal was bom on 24th May 1954 in small village Nakuri in Uttarakhand. He introduce himself to his daring intentions at the age of 12. During at school picnic, she went four in the mountains at a height of 13,125 feet.
During his training in Nehru mountaineering in 1982, he made his climbing expeditions of 21,900 feet to Gangotri mountain and 19,091 feet to Rundugera mountain.

Question 7. 
Name any three equipments which the mountaineers carry on snowy mountains, and also mention the reasons of it.
Answer: 
1. Name of the equipment- Oxygen Cylinder
Reason to carry it-To breathe properly because it is difficult to breathe, due to low pres-sure at high altitude.
2. Name of the equipment-Pointed stick • Reason to carry i-It does not slip on the snow so it helps the mountaineer to move on snow.
3. Name of the equipment-Shoes with pointed nails (spikes).
Reason to carry it-They protect the mountaineer from getting slipped on the snow because they-get pierced in the snow.

Question 8.
A group of your friend who is studying in class V is going to Shimia for a tour. What advice would you give him in making an action plan? (Any 6)
Answer: 
Action plan-

1. Using black glasses and gloves in hands while climbing the mountains 
2. Carrying pointed rods, rope, 
3. Wearing shoes with sharp nails, 
4. To keep proper arrangement of food and first aid 
5. wearing warm clothes to protect against cold, 
6. To be in discipline.

Question 9. 
What do you want to know about climbing a mountain from mountaineer? (Any 5)
Answer: 

1. What are the difficulties faced in climbing the mountain?
2. What is the arrangement of food while climbing the mountain?
3. What equipment do you carry with you while climbing a mountain?
4. What is the dress like at the time of mountaineering?
5. What are the precautions to be taken while climbing the mountains?

Question 10. 
Your school takes class 5 students for a mountain walk, you are made the leader of the team. Write an action plan for how you will take cooperation from your colleagues.
Answer: 
I will discuss with my colleagues about the precautions to be taken before going on a mountain walk. I would ask you to take precautions to avoid bushfires and possible minor hazards while hiking the mountain. While climbing the climb, I will request you to cooperate the holding each other's hands. I will take special care that no partner should ever go away from the group.