1.

What do you mean by

classification?
Answer:
Classification is the grouping or
sorting together of things
possessing similar or dissimilar
characteristics or properties.

2.What is the need for

classification?
Answer:
Classification is essential for:
(i)identification of objects.
(ii)sorting of objects.
(iii)locating things.
(iv)understanding similarities and
dissimilarities among objects.
(v)making the study of objects
easy and more meaningful.
3.On what basis are the various
objects grouped?
Answer:
The grouping of various objects
can be done on the basis of
following characters:
(i)size
(ii)shape
(iii)colour
(iv)hardness
(v)solubility in water
(vi)attraction towards magnet
(Vii)conduction of heat
(viii)transparency

4.Describe a method to prove

that water is a transparent
material.
Answer:
(i)Take a white sheet of paper,
one sketch pen, one clean
beaker and a small quantity of
clean water. (ii)Now on white
sheet mark a symbol (say “X’).
(iii)Now put the empty beaker
over the marked symbol. We can
see it properly.
(iv) Now put water in the beaker.
Observe the same mark. The
mark is again visible. This
observation proves that water is
transparent.
5.Write any four properties of
materials?
Four properties of materials are:
(i)Appearance
(ii)Hardness
(iii)Solubility or insolubility
(iv)Float
(v)Transparency

6.Why is a tumbler not made with

a piece of cloth?
Answer:
This is because we generally use
a tumbler to keep a liquid. A
tumbler made of a piece of cloth
cannot be used to keep water.
So, a tumbler is made with a
material which has a property to
hold the liquid.

7.Discuss important properties of

matter on the
basis of which we can classify
them.
Answer:
Some important properties of
matter are
discussed below:
1. Appearance: Materials can be
classified on
the basis of their appearance.
Different
materials have different
appearances.
2. Lustre: Materials can be
classified on the
basis of their lustre. Some.shine
a lot
whereas others are quite dull.
3. Solubility in water: On the
basis of solubility
in water, substances are
classified as
soluble and insoluble.
4. Transparency: Almost all light
can pass
through transparent substances.
No light
can pass through opaque
substances. Light
can pass partially through
translucent
substances.
5. Density: Density is mass per
unit volume of
a substance. On the basis of
density some
substances can float and some
get sink in
water or other liquid.

8.write an experiment to show

that our palm is translucent?
Answer:
(i)Cover the glass of a torch with
your palm at a
dark place.(ii) Switch on the torch
and observe from the other side
of the palm.
(iii)We see that light of torch
passes through palm but not
clearly.
This experiment shows that our
palm becomes
translucent when a strong beam
of light passes
through it.
9."Grouping of objects helps the
shopkeeper."
Justify the statement.
Answer:
The grouping of objects in proper
way
makes it
easier to work. When we got to
purchase
something, the shopkeeper
locates it easily,
because there are separate
shelves to put various
items and similar things are kept
at one place. If
he randomly places all of these,
he would never
be able to find it so quickly and
easily.

10.What are the advantages of

classification of
materials?
Answer:
The advantages of classification
of materials are
as follows:
1. Classification helps us to
understand
similarities and dissimilarities
among the
objects.
2. Classification of objects help
us to identify
the objects easily.
3. Classification helps us to
locate things. It is
only because of classification, we
are able
to locate a book that we need out
of
thousands in our school library.
4. Classification helps us to know
the material
of which the object is formed.
5. Classification makes study of
different
objects easy and more
meaningful.
6. Rather than studying each
object
separately, we can study just one
out of
each class of different objects
and
generalize our results for the
class as a
whole.