Class 4 Science: (Lesson Details For Final Exams) : Chapter: 13 (The Weather)
Class 4 Science: (Lesson Details For Final Exams) : Chapter: 13 (The Weather)
Question Answer:
1. How do hailstones and snowflakes fall?
Ans: If a cloud reaches very cold air, the water droplets in it turn into ice crystals. If the crystals do not melt,
they fall as hailstones and snowflakes.
2. What is humidity?
Ans: The amount of water vapour in air is called humidity. In humid places, your sweat cannot evaporate so
your skin feels sticky.
3. How does dirty rain water become clean?
Ans: Rain water seeps into the ground and is filtered.
4. Why is stagnant water harmful?
Ans: Stagnant water contains harmful germs and mosquitoes can also breed in it.
Matching:
1. Sunshine heats up water and makes it – evaporate.
2. Water becomes invisible – water vapour.
3. The water vapour rises up into the – atmosphere.
4. Droplets group together and form – clouds.
5. The droplets becomes bigger and fall as – rain.
Name the following:
1. Clouds formed due to tiny water droplets, very close to the ground – Fog.
2. Lighter than fog – Mist.
3. Drops of water that collects on things during the night – Dew.
4. When water freezes due to a temperature drop – Frost.
Question Answer:
1. What is the axis?
Ans: The axis is an imaginary line running through the center of the earth, from the north pole to the south
pole. The earth rotates on its axis.
2. What is the equator?
Ans: The equator divides the Earth into two halves. They are the northern and southern hemispheres.
3. What causes seasons?
Ans: The revolution of the Earth around the sun causes seasons.
4. What causes day and night?
Ans: Rotation around the sun causes day and night.
Diagram:
Draw and label “the rotating earth” from page 111