Huraa School Environmental studies (Grade 4) Quiz (2010), First term

1. What is a Cell in our body?

Ans: Cell is the simplest unites in our body.

2. What are tissues?

Ans: Tissues are formed when many cells are joined together.
3. What are organs?

Ans: Organs are made up of tissues. All the organs together made systems.
4. What are the two types of organs?

Ans: They are External (outside) organs and internal organs.

5. What are the main 2 functions of the brain?

Ans: *Controlling all the organs in our body. * Tell us how to do the works,.
6. What are the main two functions of the lungs?

Ans:* Lungs take air in to our body through nose and windpipe. , *helps in breathing.
7. What are the two main function of heart?

Ans: Pumps blood around our body. Circulates the blood and sends to lungs and other parts.
8. What is the main function of the kidney?

Ans : Get rid waste from blood and produce urine.

9. What is the name to the bag like organ inside our body to fill the

urine? Ans: Bladder.

10. What is the function of the intestine?

Ans : To store the waste materials.

11. What is the skull?

Ans: Skull is the brain bone.

12. What is the function of the skull?

Ans: To protect the brain or to give protection to the brain.

13. What is the Ribcage?

Ans: Ribcage is the name given to the chest bones.

14. What is the main function of the Ribcage?

Ans: Ribcage gives protection to the heart and Lungs.

15. What is the name given to the hip bone?

Ans: Pelvis.
16. What is the name given to the Thigh bone?

Ans: Femur.
17. Name any 4 long bones in our body?

Ans: Tibia, Fibula, Ulna, and Radius.

18. What is the main function of skeletal system?

Ans: To provide shape, size and framework to the whole body.

19. What is the main function of the respiratory system?

Ans: To provide fresh air with oxygen to our body.

20. What do you mean by respire?

Ans: Respire means to breathe in and out.

21. What is the pipe that air travels to the lungs?

Ans: Wind pipe.

22. From where did the respiratory system starts at an end to?

Ans: From the mouth and nose and end at lungs.

23. What is the function of circulatory system?

Ans: It is the transportation of blood around our body.

24. What is an artery?

Ans: Artery is the blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood from the heart to other parts of the body.
25. What are veins?

Ans: Veins are the blood vessels that carry de-oxygenated blood with less oxygen. (Poor in oxygen).
26. What is the main function of digestive system?

Ans: To break the food in to smallest pieces.

27. Where the digestive system starts at and ends at?

Ans: It starts from mouth and Ends at intestine.

28. What is the name given to the harmful germs?

Ans: Microbes.
29. Why we cannot see germs with our naked eyes?

Ans: Because they are very tiny and we have to see them with a microscope.
30. Name any 4 diseases we get by bacteria? Where the bacteria did

attacks at? Ans: TB, Whooping cough, cholera, Typhoid. Bacteria attaches to our living cells.
31. Where the fungi do grows and lives at?

Ans: It grows in dump places.

32. Name the 4 four ways of the germs are spread by?

Ans: Through Coughing and sneezing, contaminated food, Animals and direct contact.
33. What is a diet?

Ans: The foods we eat in our meals every day are called as our diet.

34. What is a balance diet?

Ans: Eating foods from all the foods groups in right amount is a balance diet.
35. Name any one importance we get from carbohydrates?

Ans: Carbohydrate foods like cereals and grains help to a proper growth of body.
36. What is the benefit we get from proteins?

Ans: Foods from protein like eggs, fish, meat and cheese helps to build our bones and teeth stronger and repair body cells and tissues.
37. Why very few amounts are required in fats and oil?

Ans: Because it provides lots of energy.

38. What benefit do we get by eating foods from vitamins and minerals?

Ans: Vitamins helps to grow body properly and heal wounds sooner.

Minerals help to grow teethes and bones stronger.

39. What is the benefit we get by the foods from fiber?

Ans: To digest the food easily.

40. What are the things we have to do to live a healthy life?

Ans: Eating healthy foods in the right amounts. Do regular exercising, drinking lots of liquids. Take plenty of rest and sleep at least 8 hours.

41. What things do we have to avoid living a healthy life?

Ans: Eating junk foods, smoking cigarettes, and using soft drinks too much.
42. How do you describe population?

Ans: It is the number of people living in an area, a place, an island or a country.

43. Why do population changes of the countries thin every year?

Ans: it changes because of the change in birth rate and death rate.
44. Give any 3 advantages of increase in population in a place or a

country?

Ans: The country will be more developed with better facilities like education and health. More improvements for the standard of living. There will be more jobs as country is more developed.

45. Give any 4 disadvantages of increasing population?

The place will be overcrowded so the land becomes limited, and no place to live happily. No fresh air to breath. No enough jobs for everyone. Behaviour problems and criminals arrive because of overcrowding.

46.

What is migration?

Ans: Movement or transfer of people from one place to another temporarily or permanently.
47. Why do people migrate? Give at least 3 reasons.

To get better education and jobs.

Get better and quality and easy health facilities. To get a better life. To live in a safe place. To get good foods.

48. What is mean by a community?

Ans: A group of people living together with some things common in their life styles.
49. What are some things common in a community?

Ans: Speaking, dressing up.

50. Name some communities?

Ans: School, hospitals, offices, clubs. 51. Name any 4 diseases we get by Virus? Ans: Dengue, chicken pox, chikun gunea, measles and AIDS.