Test Sheet - 1

[ People and the Environment]

SUBJECT: Social Studies GRADE:2

NAME: ___________________ DATE: ____________

I. Write the answers of the following questions:

1. How do people harm their environment?

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2. What does the word ‘extinct’ mean?

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3. Why are tigers endangered animals?

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II. Define the following:

1. endangered:________________________________________________________________________________
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2. fuel: _________________________________________________________________________________
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III. How can the following create good or bad effect on the environment?

GOOD EFFECT BAD EFFECT

1. Lorry Driver

2. Gardener
IV. Fill in
the
blanks:

1. Today,
huge areas of land are to grow food.

2. The tiger is endangered because of .

3. People harm their environment with and .

4. In early days there were so few and so much .

V. Write whether these animals are endangered or extinct:

1.Dinosaur 2. Tiger
3. Elephant 4. Moa Bird

5. White Polar Bear 6. Dodo bird

VI. Correct the statements wherever required:

1.Today there are less than seven billion people in the world.

2. Animals have been poisoned by chemical waste from farms and factories.
3. Tigers have become extinct.

VII. Choose the correct answer:

1. Animals lost their homes when people .

a) polluted the water b) polluted the air c) cleared land.

2. Tigers are endangered because people are destroying .

a) shops b) farms and factories c) forests

3. On a compass the end of the needle always points to the ___________________ .

a) South Pole b) North Pole c) Both
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