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GSEB Class 6 English Water Water Everywhere Extra Questions.
Activity 2
[Que] What does Vijay like to do with water?
Vijay likes to play with water.
[Que] What are the ways Vijay likes to play with water?
Vijay loved filling the tub with water and playing with his toy boat, he also liked making big mud puddles and pretending it was a lake, and splashing his friends with water.
[Que] What advice did his mother give him?
not to waste water.
[Que] Why did Vijay wake up in the middle of the night?
Vijay got up in the night because he heard some sound outside his room due to which he woke up.
[Que] What characters have been mentioned in the story so far?
There have been three characters mentioned in the story so far: Vijay, his mother, and the villagers.
[Que] What did Vijay’s cousin Rajesh say to him?
Rajesh informed Vijay that there is a lot of water shortage here. It hasn’t even rained for years and all the lakes have dried up.
[Que] What would happen if villagers ran out of water?
When villagers run out of water, they must purchase water from someone else, which is expensive.
[Que] How does Rajesh advise Vijay to use water wisely?
- He gave Vijay a glass of water and told him to use it for brushing his teeth.
- He told Vijay to take a bath with a very small amount of water in a bucket
- He told Vijay to save the water used for washing his clothes so it could use it again later.
[Que] Who was Mary Oliver?
Mary Oliver is a well-known American poet who loves water.
Activity 9
[Que] What is the amount of water on earth?
The total amount of water on our planet is 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters.
[Que] What is the cycle of water on earth?
There is a constant flow of water in the world. It evaporates from the ocean, travels through the air, rains down on the land, and then goes back to the ocean.
[Que] What is the composition of water on the earth?
There are only about 2% of fresh water on earth, but 1.6% of it is locked up in glaciers and ice caps. Another 0.36 percent is underground in wells. Only about 0.036 percent of the planet’s total water supply is found in fresh lakes and water.98 percent of water is found in oceans which is undrinkable.
[Question] Why drinking water is scarce on earth?
Answer: Drinking water is scarce on earth because less than 1% of earth’s water is drinkable.
[Question] What is desalination?
Answer: The process of removing salt fro sea water is called desalination.
[Question] How old is desalination method?
Answer: The desalination method has been used since the ancient greeks.
[Question] Why could desalination not be practiced on a larger scale?
Answer: This method cannot be used on a larger scale becoz it works properly on small amount of water as well as consumes lot of fuel.
[Question] What job did david parents want to leave for him ?
Answer: David parents ask david to fill the water barrel.
[Question] What did david wanted to do?
Answer: David wanted to help pete in the pasture.
[Question] What is the meaning of “you will be in hot water”?
Answer: The meaning is you will be in trouble.
[Question] Why were david and his family proud of their house?
Answer: Because they had bult the house on their own.
[Question] What did they do to solve water problem?
Answer: They would fetch water from the river.
[Question] How would they draw water for water barrel.
Answer: They draw water from a spigot at the bottom of the barrel.
[Question] How much water was left when david saw first time in water barrel.
Answer: The water was so low that he could not reach even reach it with his finger tips.
[Question] Who was pete and where was he?
Answer: He was a hired man and he was down in the pasture with thw animals.
[Question] How david wanted to surprise his parents?
Answer: David wanted to surprise his parents to fill the water barrel to the brim.
[Question] What happened to david when he was carring 3rd bucket?
Answer: When he carring the 3rd busket he slipped on the stairs and th water in the bucket fell over his shoes,at least it could him down.
[Question] What made pete stop his work?
Answer: Pete saw smoke coming from the distant house which made him stop his work.
[Question] What did david do to see the smoke?
Answer: David climbed on top of the rail of the fans and shaded his eyes to see the smoke.
[Question] From where was the smoke coming?what was burning?
Answer: The smoke was coming from the cellar window and the log in the cellar was burning.
[Question] What did david and pete use to put off the fire?
Answer: David and pete use thw water from the water barrel to put out the fire
