V Science Chapter-2 Environmental Pollution

Fill the gaps :

1. The main reason of air ,water and soil pollution is …..of the population.
2. …..is mainly responsible for causing environment pollution.
3. Typhoid is a …..borne disease.
4. Water pollution is happen when excessive …..is used in crop fields.
5. …..is responsible for melting glacier.
6. Air pollution may cause …..cancer.
7. Glaciers melting one causes the rise of …..
8. …..is a good practice for environment conservation
9. Public …..is the best way to conserve environment
10. …..are used in agricultural land to increase crop productivity
11. Using electricity during load shedding may causes …..pollution
12. …..animals are affected by polluted water.
13. …..pollution causes acid rain.
14. …..is polluted due to hospital wastes.
15. To grow more food …..fertilizer is added to soil.
16. Air pollution has …..on the human health.
17. There is …..of environment on us.
18. We should …..garbage in the dustbin.
19. Reducing …..fuel we can conserve the environment.
20. ….. pollution causes skin cancer.

Answer: 1. increase 2. population 3. water 4. insecticides 5. global warming 6.

lung 7. sea level 8. recycling 9. awareness 10. fertilizers 11. sound 12. aquatic
13. air 14. soil 15. chemical 16. impact 17. influence 18. dumping 19. fossil
20.water
Matching
Left Side Right Side
(a)Environmental (1)causes air
pollution pollution
 (b)Melting glacier (2)soil pollution
(c)Vehicle and (3)conserve
Factories environment
(d)Reducing electricity (4)causes water
pollution
(e)Uses of excess (5)sea level rises
fertilizers
(6)polythene
(7) population
increase

Answer:
1. (a+7) Environmental pollution population increase
2. (b+5) Melting glacier sea level rises
3. (c+1) Vehicle and Factories causes air pollution
4. (d+3) Reducing electricity conserve environment
5. (e+2) Uses of excess fertilizers soil pollution

Q:What is the environmental pollution?

Ans: Environmental pollution is the addition of harmful or poisonous
substances into the environment.
Q: What are the four ways of environmental pollution?
Ans: The four ways of environment pollution are –
air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution and noise pollution.
Q:What are the three main reasons of the environment pollution.
Ans: The three main reasons of the environment pollution are:
a. Industrialization
b. Fossil fuels
c. Population growth
Q: What is global warming?
Ans: The increase of average temperature of the earth is called global warming.
Q:How does pollution affect sea level change?
Ans: Due to pollution ,average temperature of the earth is increasing. As a
result many glaciers are melting and thus sea level is rising.
Q:What is air pollution?
Ans: When harmful gases, dust particles, smoke or bad odour are mixed in the
air then it is called air pollution.
Q: What is acid rain?
Ans: Due to burn of fossil fuels or the smokes of industries mix clouds and make
it acidic. When rains fall from this clouds is called acid rain.
Q:What are the negative effects of air pollution on environment?
Ans: The negative effects of air pollution are global warming and acid rain.
Q:Water pollution causes what kind of diseases to human.
Ans: Water pollution causes water borne diseases like diarrhoea or cholera to
human.
Q:What is environment conservation?
Ans: Sustainable and wise use and preservation of natural resource is called
environment conservation.
Q:What is the best way to conserve our environment?
Ans: The best way to conserve our environment is to raise public awareness.
Q:What are the 3R’s?
Ans: The 3R’s are reducing, reusing and recycling .
Q:How soil pollution effects human?
Ans: People become sick with various diseases when they eat foods which are
grown on polluted soil.
Q:Write down one way of environmental conservation.
Ans: One way of environmental conservation
a. Tree plantation and saving the forest area.
Q:What is the main reason of environment change?
Ans: The use of environment in different way is the main reason of environment
change.
Q:Why soil pollution occurs?
Ans: Use of excess fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural land causes soil
pollution.
Q:Write two impacts of sound pollution?
Ans: Sound pollution can damage ear drum as well as harm health. Different
noises can upset human mind and health.
Q:Why is healthy environment necessary?
Ans: Healthy environment is necessary for the survival of human and living
beings.
Q:Which elements are polluting water?
Ans: Chemical fertilizer, pesticides, open latrine, industrial waste, household
waste etc are polluting water.
Q:Which animals are affected by polluted water?
Ans: Aquatic animals are affected by polluted water.
Q:What is the bad effect of soil pollution?
Ans: The loss of productivity of soil is the bad effect of soil pollution.
Q:Write down two activities that can be helpful for environment
conservation?
Ans: a) Cutting of trees needs to be stopped.
b) Filling up of rivers and water bodies need to be stopped.
Q: What is noise pollution ?
Ans: The sound in the environment that harms the health of human or animal
life is called noise pollution.
Q: What are the causes of the noise pollution?
Ans: The causes of noise pollution are-
(i)Playing song in high volume causes noise pollution.
(ii) Unnecessary horn creates noise pollution
(iii) Using big machinery in industries also causes noise pollution.
(iv)Playing mike also causes noise pollution.
Q: What is industrialization?
Ans: To build and operate factories and business in a city ,region ,country etc.
Q: Write in brief the measures you can take to prevent noise pollution?
Ans: The measures that can be taken to prevent noise pollution are given
below:
1. We should not play songs in loud volumes.
2. Don’t use horns unnecessarily in the streets.
3. Factories should not be built in the residential areas.
4. Don’t play mikes, horns near schools, colleges and universities.
5. We should not do such works which are responsible for creating noise
pollution.

Q: What are the impacts of water pollution on environment?

Ans: The impacts of water pollution on environment are given below:
1. By using polluted water people are exposed to water-borne disease such as
cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhea.
2. Aquatic animals are also affected.
3. Polluted water harms the productivity power of the fields.
4. Besides there lies the possibility of stomach and skin diseases.

Q: Write down five ways of environmental conservation?

Ans: Five ways of environmental conservation are given below:
1. Cutting of trees and filling up of rivers and water bodies need to be stopped.
2. Unplanned housing, mills and factories cannot be built throughout.
3. Stop creating smoke which is responsible for increasing carbon dioxide.
4. Stop polluting ponds, dobas, khals, beels and rivers.
5. Mass public awareness should be created to conserve environment.

Q: What are the effects of air pollution?

Ans: Air pollution has negative effects on the environment. They are-

(i) Air pollution causes global warming

(ii) Due to air pollution acid rain is created in the environment.
(iii) It can also make people sick lung cancer, respiratory diseases etc.

Q: Write two ways by which the awareness for stopping environmental

pollution in your locality can be raised within your friends.
Ans: To raise awareness within my friends at first,

I will arrange a seminar in where they can watch a documentary film based on
environmental pollution and their negative impacts on environment.

Then , I will discuss with them about the problems which are being created for
pollution in my locality.

Q: What is the main cause of environmental pollution? Or, how environment

is getting polluted? Or, who are mainly responsible for environmental
pollution?

Ans: There is problem in the environment due to the population increase.

People are using various elements of environment to support the needs of the
excess population. It creates various wastes, thus polluting the air, water and
soil.
Q: How air is polluted? Or, write some causes of air pollution?
Ans: Causes of air pollution are given below:
1. The air become polluted due to unplanned housing and industry
establishment, vehicle emission, smoke from brick fields etc.
2. Air can also become polluted from unmanaged waste and sewage produced
in highly populated area.
3. Air becomes polluted by smoke.

Q: Which has impact on the human health? Or, Has air pollution impact on the
human health?

Ans: Yes, air pollution has impact on the human health. Polluted air creates
problems of respiration and different diseases in the body. A man may be
attacked by fatal diseases such as allergy, cough, asthma, bronchitis, high blood
pressure, headache, lung cancer etc. due to polluted air.

Q: How water is polluted? Or, Write some causes of water pollution?

Ans: Causes of water pollution are given below:
1. To grow more food, chemical fertilizer is added to the soil.
2. Pesticides are used in the fields.
3. Open latrine is built upon ponds or water bodies, which pollutes the water.
4. Industrial waste, household waste, etc. can pollute the water in many ways.

Q: Write the causes of noise pollution?

Ans: Causes of noise pollution are given below:

1. Using loud speaker or mikes in different places.
2. Playing songs in loud volumes, using horns unnecessarily in the streets.
3. Selling something by playing songs in loud speaker.

Q: Write the impacts of noise pollution.

Ans: 1. Sudden peak in sound, crowd, different noises can upset human mind
and health.
2. These kinds of sounds can damage ear drum as well as harm health.
3. Studying children got disturbed.
4. Patients feel uncomfortable in the hospitals and at home.

5.It also causes harm to our health.

Q: Write the ways to conserve environment. / Write the necessary steps to

prevent environmental pollution. / What should we do to prevent
environmental pollution?
Ans: The ways to conserve environment are given below:
The necessary steps to prevent environmental pollution are given below:
We should do the following steps to prevent environmental pollution are given
below:
1. Unplanned housing, mills and factories cannot be built throughout.
2. Population growth should be under control.
3. Proper ways of waste and sewage disposal should be established in every
unhealthy slum.
4. We should prevent all types of pollution.
5. We should plant more trees.
6. Mass public awareness should be created to conserve environment.

Q: Write the causes of environmental pollution?

Ans: The causes of air pollution are given below:
1. The human population is increasing.
2. The forests are cut down to accommodate this excess population.
3. As a result many plants and animals are being extinct.
4. Unhealthy slums are being established in the townships, where there is no
proper ways of waste and sewage disposal.

Q: Population growth is the main cause of environmental pollution .Mention

how excess population cause environment pollution.

Ans: Population growth is the fundamental cause of environmental pollution.

To meet their need people are destroying environment. The causes are
mentioned in below:

(i) To produce excess food for excess population people use chemical
fertilizers, pesticides. Which mix with soil and causes soil pollution.
(ii) To build houses ,roads people are destroying forests. So the amount of
carbon dioxide in the air is increasing which causes air pollution.
(iii) The wide spread use of fossil fuels such oil, gas and coal causes air
pollution. This pollution have negative effects on the environment such as
global warming and acid rain.
(iv) Due to excess population there is no proper ways of waste and sewage
disposal. As a result people throw garbage, industrial waste into water which
causes water pollution.
(v) Crowd, excess population causing noise pollution by unnecessary use of
horns, playing songs in high volume and use of loud speakers or mikes.