EVS WORKSHEET

CLASS 3

PLEASE NOTE:
*Read all the chapters well. Questions may come from between them.
*Practice all textbook exercises.
*Learn all the questions and answers from the notebook.
*Kindly don’t depend only on the worksheet. This is only to help in revising.

I. Fill in the blanks:

1. ______________ are the special vehicles used to travel into space.
2. The Earth goes around the sun in a fixed path called ___________.
3. The moon completes one rotation on its axis in about _____________.
4. The first man who stepped on the surface of the moon was __________.
5. ____________ is the largest passenger aeroplane.
6. The pull or attraction of the earth is called ____________.
7. The earth has two movements, ____________ and ____________.
8. A ___________ can travel over land, water and ice.
9. ___________ means sending or receiving message.
10. A ___________ ship carries goods between different places around the world.
11. The temperature of the sun’s surface is about _________ degree centigrade.
12. The earth rotates from ______________.
13. __________ and _________ were the other two astronauts who travelled with
Neil Armstrong.
14. Sunita Williams stayed in space for ___________ days
15. _______________ is the first Indian to go into space.
16. There are huge potholes called ____________ on the moon’s surface.
17. There are two kinds of land transport __________ and ___________.
18. The postal service of our country is called ______________.
19. In India, we find trams in ____________.
20. Revolution of the earth takes _______________.

II. Answer the following:

1. What does the rotation of the earth cause?
2. What is gibbous moon?
3. Who are astronomers?
4. Why is there no life on the moon?
 5. What do astronauts do in space?
6. When did Kalpana Chawla first go into space?
7. How do we choose a particular vehicle to travel?
8. Which animals are used as a means of transport?
9. Write three road safety rules.
10. How did early humans communicate?
11. What is the difference between personal and mass communication?
12. What are the advantages of using an email?

III. TRUE or FALSE:

1. Fax is a means of mass communication.
2. An aeroplane helps people go into space.
3. The moon is a satellite.
4. Your weight on the moon will be six times more than your weight on the earth.
5. Rakesh Sharma went into space twice.
6. Revolution is the movement of the earth around the sun.
7. Gibbous moon is when we see more than half of the moon.
8. Jantar Mantar is the name of a constellation.
9. In Kolkata, trams are still functional.
10. Ships are the fastest means of transport.
 ANSWER KEY

I. Fill in the blanks:

1. Space craft
2. orbit
3. 27 days and 8 hours
4. Neil Armstrong
5. A380
6. force of gravity / gravity
7. rotation
8. hovercraft
9. Communication
10. cargo
11. 5400
12. west to east
13. Edwin Aldrin, Michael Collins
14. 195
15. Rakesh Sharma
16. craters
17. road, rail
18. India Post
19. Kolkata
20. 365 days and 6 hours

III True OR False

1. False
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. True
8. False
9. True
10. False