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CLASS VIII
UNIT 1 NATURE

Sluggish animals
Page 01 and 02
1. Manatees or sea cow
2. Gila Monsters
3. Loris
4. Seahorse
5. Banana Slug
6. Giant tortoise
7. Garden snails/land snails
8. Starfish
9. Three-toed sloth

Light pollution
fill in the blanks

1. Blue light
2. Light trespass Page 04
3. Light clutter
4. Cones and rods
5. Glare
6. Sky glow
7. Diffused light
8. Light fixtures
9. Algal bloom
10. Carbon dioxide

Survival adaptations

1. Texas horned lizard

2. Basilisk lizard
3. Opossums Page 05 and 06
4. Hippopotamus
5. Wood frogs
6. Kangaroo rats
7. Exploding ant
8. Diving bell spider

Chemical defense mechanism

1. Calotropis
2. Castor bean Plant
3. Daffodils
4. Deadly nightshade Page 07 and 08
5. Parthenium
6. Datura
7. Kaner
8. Dumb Cane
Marine life
Name the fascinating creatures based on the given description

1. Green sea turtle Page 09 and 10

2. Mantis Shrimp
3. Natural sea sponges
4. Red algae
5. Kelps
6. Sea grass
7. Mermaid's wine glass
8. Sail fish

Millets

1. Identify and name the different types of Indian millets Page 11 and 12
2. Sorghum (jowar)
3. Foxtail Millets
4. Finger millet (Ragi)
5. Pearl millet (Bajra)
6. Barnyard millet
7. Kudo millet
8. Proso millet

Rare flowers

Identify and name the flower by relating the description with its picture Page 13 and 14

1. Rothschild's slipper orchid

2. Passion flower
3. Angel orchid
4. Flame Lily
5. Ghost Orchid
6. Juliet Rose
7. Corpse flower
8. Jade vine
9. Kadupul
10. Chocolate Cosmos

Unusual trees Page 15 and 16

Name the following trees with the help of the given information

1. Monkey bread tree- Baobab

2. The Brazilian grapetree-Jaboticaba
3. Canary Island dragon tree
4. Cannon Ball tree
5. Welwithschia
6. Kauri
7. Bottle tree
8. Sequoias Tree
Disappearing sparrows

Choose from the given clues and fill in the blanks Page 18

● 20th March
● Delhi
● 2002
● Flocks
● Grey and brown
● Hops

Endangered species of bird

Page 19 and 20

Identify and name the endangered species of birds with the help of given description

1. Imperial heron
2. Vulture
3. Himalayan quail
4. Forest owlet
5. Great Indian Bustard
6. Spoon-billed sandpiper
7. Bengal florican
8. Jerdon's courser

Tsunami
Page 21
1. Crest
2. Ring of Fire
3. Run up
4. Subduction zone
5. Bore
6. Evacuation zone
7. Wrap around effect
8. Leading Wave

Twister bag 1
Page 22
I
1. 16
2. d
II. d
III. c
IV. b

Twister bag 2 Page 23

I
1a
2a
3d
4a
 UNIT 2
INDIA
Freedom fighters
Page 26
1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Lala Lajpat Rai
4. Subhash Chandra Bose
5. Sarojini Naidu

Gallantry awards
Page 27 and 28
1. Ashoka Chakra
2. Vir Chakra
3. Shaurya Chakra
4. Mahavir Chakra
5. Kirti Chakra
6. Param Vir Chakra

Indian classical dances

1. Odissi Page 29 and 30

2. Mohiniyattam
3. Bharatanatyam
4. Satriya
5. Kathak
6. Kuchipudi
7. Kathakali
8. Jagoi

Economic planning in India

Choose the correct option

Page 33
1. D) 1951
2. D) fifth
3. B) fourth
4. C) adam Smith
5. A) Jawaharlal Nehru
6. B) mixed economy
7. A) fifth
8. D) seventh
9. B) national Institute for transforming India
10. A) after the third plan

India National Highways

Fill in the blanks

1. Greater Noida Page 35

2. NH 44
3. New Delhi
4. New Delhi to Amritsar
5. Srinagar to Kanyakumari
 6. Madhya Pradesh
7. NH7
8. Kolkata to Chennai
9. Second
10. NH 44/ NH1 and NH2
11. Kundanoor
12. Even, odd

Twister Bag-1 Page 36

I
1. a
2. a
3. b
II. c
III. a

Twister Bag-2 Page 37

I.
1. c
2. c
II d
III c
IV
1. b
2. b

UNIT 3 WORLD
Isolated tribes in the world
Identify the tribe from the given description
Page 38 and 39
1. Sentinelese
2. Yaifo
3. Korowai
4. Surma/ Suri
5. Mursi
6. Fleicheros
7. Mashco-Piro or Cujareño
8. Yanomami
9. Ayoreo

The Frozen continent Antarctica

Page 40 and 41
1. Dry valleys
2. 200 miles per hour
3. The Ross ice shelf
4. The Gamburtsev mountains
5. Lake Vostok
6. Mount Erebus
7. Albatrosses
8. Rain or snow
9. 14,000,000 kilometre square
10. Fire
 11. Deep lake
12. Snowy sheathbills
13. Gentoo

Panoramic and famous lakes of the world

1. Baikal Page 42
2. Caspian Sea
3. Tanganyika
4. Lake Victoria
5. Great Slave Lake
6. Lake Como
7. Pangong Tso
8. Moraine
9. Mansarovar

Northern lights

1. Galileo Galilei
2. International Space Station Page 43 and 44
3. Southern Lights
4. Solar wind
5. Colours and patterns
6. Gas particles
7. High altitude oxygen
8. Scandinavia
9. Jupiter
10. High solar sunspot activity

Straits of the world

1. Baffin Island
2. Gulfstream
3. Bering Page 45
4. Formosa
5. Babelmandeb
(written as Bab-el-
Mandeb)
6. Dover
7. New Zealand
8. Bass
9. Sri Lanka
10. Hormuz
11. Malacca
12. Sicily

Volcanoes of the world

1. Krakatoa
2. Mount Vesuvius
Page 46
3. Mount Saint Helens
4. Mount Etna Sicily
5. 1815 Tambora eruption
6. Mauna Loa Hawaii US
7. Mount Fuji
8. Barren Island India
Rivers of the world
Page 47 and 48
1. Danube
2. Nile
3. Amazon
4. Yangtze
5. Mississippi
6. Yenisei
7. Congo
8. Volga
9. Ganga

Natural wonders

1. Himalayas Page 49, 50 and 51

2. Great Barrier Reef
3. Serengeti migration
4. Iguazu Falls
5. Sogne Fjord
6. Galapagos Islands
7. Grand Canyon
8. Amazon
9. Mariana Trench
10. Rocky
11. Mount Augustus
12. Victoria

Longitude and time

1. 2:00 a.m. 20 minutes/City B- 6:00a.m.

2. 90 degree Page 52
3. 6 hours
4. 6:00 p.m.

World Time Zones Page 53

a. 10
b. 9
c. 7
d. 3
 e. 2
f. 1
g. 8
h. 5
i. 4
j. 6

Fantastic Footwear
I Page 54
a. Cowboy shoe
b. clogs
c. Pointe
d. Moccasin
e. Combat boot
f. Therapeutic
g. Stilettos
h. Loafers
i. Flip flops
j. Galoshes

II
1. Topline
2. Tongue
3. Eyelets
4. Throat line
5. Toe cap
6. Heel counter
7. Insole
8. Heel
9. Vamp
10. Outsole

III Page 55
a. Football
b. Golf
c. Climbing
d. Ice skating
e. Soccer
f. Racing

Twister Bag-1 Page 56

I. D
II.
1. a
2. a
3. b

Twister Bag-2 Page 57

I.
1. c
2. c
3. b
4. a
 UNIT 4
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Branches of Applied Science Page 58 , 59

1. Agronomy
2. Fungiculture
3. Opthalmology
4. Remote Sensing
5. Forensic Science
6. Horticulture
7. Psychiatry
8. Aerospace Engineering
9. Ceramic Engineering
10. Optics

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Page 60,61

1. SRI International Silicon Valley/Shakey

2. Siri
3. Alexa Device
4. Sophia
5. Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
6. Daksh
7. Arthrobot

Eco- Friendly Gadgets Page 62,63

1. USB recharge cell

2. Water Pebble
3. Bamboo Bluetooth keyboard
4. Refleece cases
5. Eco-amp
6. Solar Phone Charger
7. Smokless Chulha
8. LED Lamp
9. UV light Printable Paper
10. Switch off charger

Research Institutes of India Page 64,65

1. Bose Institute
2. Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Science
3. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
4. ISRO
5. Central Food Technological Research Institute
6. Bhabha Atomic Research Institute
7. Indian Institute of Astrophysics
8. Raman Research Institute

Life of a Star Page 66

1. Protostar
2. T-Tauri Phase
3. Main Sequence star
4. Expansion into Red Giant
 5. Fusion of heavier element
6. Supernova and Planetary Nebulae

Artificial Organs Page 67, 68

1. Cochlear Implant
2. Pacemaker
3. Artificial Retina Implant
4. Artificial Arms and Legs Prosthetics
5. Artificial Lungs
6. Neural Prosthetics
7. Orthopedic Prosthesis
8. Dental Implants

An Outbreak: Coronavirus Covid-19 Page 72

1.
a. Covid-19
b. Central China
c. Respiratory droplets
d. Four
e. 2-14 days
2.
1. a
2. c
3. b
3.
a. Incubation Period
b. 60%
c. 24 March, 2020

Astronomy Page 73,74,75

1. Georges Lemaître
2. Thomas Harriot
3. Johannes Kepler
4. William Herschel
5. Galileo Galilei
6. Gene Shoemaker
7. Tycho Brahe
8. Edwin Hubble
9. Giovanni Cassini
10. Christiaan Huygens
11. Issac Newton
12. Stephen William Hawking
13. Albert Einstein
14. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Twister Bag 1 Page 76

I
1. d
2. A

3. b
4. c
Twister Bag -2 Page 77
I. c
II. b
III
1. d
2. d