Revision Notes

Class – 4 Environmental Studies

Chapter 2 – Ear to Ear

Summary of Ear to Ear

 The chapter ear to ear talks about the types of ears present in the different
types of creatures.
 The chapter also discusses the types of skin present in the different types of
creatures.
 The chapter also talks about the ways of reproduction (either give birth to
young ones or lay eggs) based on the presence of ear and skin.
 Anything in our lovely universe is felt or sensed primarily through five of our
bodily parts.
 We see it with our eyes, hear it with our ears, smell it with our noses, consume
with our tongues, and feel it with our skin.

Animals with and without ears and hair on their skin

 Ear is one of the sensory organs. Animals ears exist in a number of different
forms.
 Even if we can't see their ears, the creatures with which we can't communicate
have them.
 Ears and skins are related because they signal whether an animal bears birth
or lays eggs.
 The hair on the skin causes many sorts of ear patterns.
 Animals with visible ears, which means they have hair on their skin.
 The animals whose ears aren't visible from the outside due to their modest
size. The ears of birds are covered in feathers.
 Humans, elephants, tigers, giraffes, dogs, and other creatures with visible ears
exterior have hair on their skin and produce offspring for their young.

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Image: Dog with its puppies
 Fish, reptiles, birds, and other creatures without externally visible ears do not
have hair on their skin, and they lay eggs.

Image: Duck with its eggs

The theme of the chapter:

This chapter teaches us about the following topics:

 Types of ear patterns present in different animals
 It talks about the animals with and without hair on their skin
 Animals that give birth to young ones.
 Animals that lay eggs.

Practice Questions

Q 1. Do you believe that animals whose ears we can't see don't have any at all?
Ans: No, every animal has ears but they are visible outside.

Q 2. Find out some other animals which have ears that we cannot see. Write
their names.

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Ans: Snake, lizard, dolphin, birds, etc.

Read and Write

Q 1. An animal with ears like fans

Ans: The animal with visible ears like fans is Elephant

Q 2. An animal with ears like leaves

Ans: A rabbit is an animal that has ears like leaves.

Q 3. An animal with ears on the top of its head

Ans: A rabbit is an animal that has ears on the top of its head.

Q 4. An animal with ears on both sides of its head

Ans: A cat is an animal that has ears on both sides of its head.

Image: Who has got my ears?

Solved examples

Q 1. Do these creatures appear to be amusing? On the heads of the animals, the

artist has drawn incorrect ears. Fill in the blanks with the correct ears for the
animals.
Animal Ear Animal Ear
Elephant Mouse Dog --------------
Rabbit ------------ Buffalo --------------
Mouse ------------ Deer --------------
Giraffe -------------
Ans:
Animal Ear Animal Ear

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 Elephant Mouse Dog Rabbit
Rabbit Giraffe Buffalo Deer
Mouse Dog Deer Buffalo
Giraffe Elephant

Q 2. Animals' ears come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Which of the animals
in the following list has visible ears? Which animal's ears aren't visible? Fill in
the blanks in the table below.
Deer Frog Fish Ant Crow
Tiger Sparrow Buffalo Snake Lizard
Pig Duck Giraffe Elephant Cat
Ans:
Animals with ears that we can see Animals with ears that we cannot see
Deer Frog
Tiger Fish
Buffalo Ant
Pig Crow
Giraffe Sparrow
Elephant Snake
Cat Lizard
Duck

Q 3. In which list did you put the cow and the buffalo? From a distance, can
you see the hair on their skin? Try to go near one of them. Could you see the
hair?
Ans: Cow and buffalo were put on the list: animals with hair on their body and
whose ears can be seen. We can see the hair on the skin of cows and buffalo from
the outside and they both give birth to young ones.

Q 4. If you were to meet an elephant, would you dare to touch it? Do you know
that an elephant also has hair on its skin?
Ans: I would dare to touch an elephant. Yes, I am aware that an elephant has hair on
its skin.

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