LESSON: WATER - A TRUE ELIXIR
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1. Who wrote the chapter ‘Water - A True Elixir?”
Ans. Dr. DV Jindal. .
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2. How much of water available on earth is salty ocean water?
Ans. Ninety seven per cent.
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3. What has man sought in vain for ages?
Ans. The divine Amrita.
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4. What is the basis of all life?
Ans. Water.
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5. What great role do forests play in case of water?
Ans. They help in the conservation of
water.
Q.
6. What did the people in ancient India believe about the forests?
Ans. They believed that forests were
the mothers of rivers.
Q.
7. What has increased the consumption of water?
Ans. Rising population, growing industrialization
and expanding auricular.
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8. What is known as the 'food bowl of India'?
Ans. The state of Punjab.
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9. What is the true elixir of life?
Ans. Water.
Q.
10. When did Indus Valley Civilization flourish?
Ans. About 5000 years ago.
Q.
11. What provides freshening breath of beauty to the mind?
Ans. Water.
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12. In case of water, which are the worst affected districts of Punjab?
Ans. Sangrur and Moga.
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13. What takes the major share of water in Punjab?
Ans. Rice-wheat cropping system.
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14. What technologies are related to soil and agronomic management?
Ans. Planting and transplanting time
of crops, irrigation scheduling and new irrigation methods.
Short Q/A
A1- Only three percent of water is
fresh water, in which two percent is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.97
percent of the water is salty ocean water. So only one percent of the water is
available for drinking.
A2. Because only one percent of water
is available for drinking.
A3- Because people had access to
fresh water easily.
A4- The Indus Valley Civilization
period had one of the most sophisticated urban water supply and sewage system
in the world.
A5- In the forest water seeps gently
into the ground as vegetation breaks the flow of water. This ground water feeds
well, lakes and rivers.
A6- Because the level of underground
water is falling sharply day by day.
A7- He admitted that groundwater was
continuously declining in 85% areas of the state.
A8- Due to excessive decline in water,
nitrate presence in water has gone up by ten times and farmers have to dig
deeper into the ground to pump out water.
A9- Technologies like planting and a
planting time of crops, sprinklers, drip irrigation and furrow. Can be used to
save water.
A10- In villages, people have to go
for miles to collect water from tanks and lakes. The poor urban classes have to
drink polluted water.
Long Q/A
A2- Water conservation has become the
need of the day because rising population, growing industrialization and
expanding agriculture have pushed up the demand for water. Besides this, we are
also wasting and polluting water. We are cutting down our forests. It disturbed
the water cycle also. As a result the water level is sinking year after year.
And if this continuous, a day will come when life would become impossible on
the earth. So we will have to conserve every drop of water.
A5. Water is the foundation of food
and life. It is the basis of all life. We can live without food for a number of
days but we can’t do without water for a day even. It is essential to life as
air. In the forest water seeps gently into the ground as vegetation breaks the
flow of water. This ground water feeds well, lakes and rivers .Many poets are
inspired by falling of water down the hills. But with the advancement we are
wasting and polluting water. We are cutting down our forests. It disturbed the water
cycle also. As a result the water level is sinking year after year. And if this
continuous, a day will come when life would become impossible on the earth. So
we will have to conserve every drop of water.
Vocabulary Ex-1 Pg. -
71
Matching-
1. Sufficiently large in quantity 6.
sad
2. A small amount 7. Twisting and
turning
3. Understanding 8. Threatening,
dangerous
4. Prosper 9. Fall down, decrease
5. Familiar with 10. Reach
Ex-2 Use a prefix and
form Antonyms
1. Indiscipline 4. Insecure
2. Independence 5. Indirectly
3. Undeveloped
Grammar Ex-1 (Modals)
i. Would iv. Need
ii. must v. must
iii. will
Ex-2 Narration
1. Barb shouted to Malcolm to hold on
and said that she was going for help.
2. I exclaimed that it was a mean
act.
3. The teacher told his pupils that
most of them would be leaving school within six months.
4. I asked my guest whether he had a
bad night.
5. She said that I had sold my car
myself.
Ex-3 Use words as a noun and as a
verb
1. Treasure N Books are a treasure
for us.
V I treasure his friendship.
2. Order N We must obey the orders of
our parents.
V I ordered a cup of tea.
3. Attack N We are ready to face any
attack.
V China attacked India.
4. Water N Jagriti like cold water.
V The gardener is watering the
plants.
5. Table N I bought a big table.
V He tabled the report in the
meeting.
6. Encounter N the enemy was killed
in an encounter.
V Rohan encountered a lion in the
jungle.
Questions 1 – 10
Compete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS OR A
NUMBER for each
Answer.
Due to overuse of chemical fertilizers there
is a rise in 1_________.
The number of tube wells has increased from
1.2 lakh to 2________.
Water table is below 3________ in Sangrur and
Moga districts.
The Punjab irrigation minister admitted the
declining ground water in the year of 4________.
Water contained 5____________ mg/liter of
nitrate in the year 1972.
Nitrate eve is increasing due to excessive use
of 6__________and pesticides.
There will be no 7__________water for hum
Ans and animals in the next 20-25
years.
High nitrate eves in water can result in a
reduced 8 ___________.
The state of Punjab should make a
comprehensive 9__________ on the water crisis. A departments related to water
should 10 __________ in cohesion.
READING (PASSAGE)
In the state of Punjab major share of
water is taken by rice-wheat cropping system. It may be noticed that 1 kilogram
of rice consumes 3500-4000 liters of water for its growth (depending upon its
variety, sowing time, area, etc.). Therefore, it is the requirement of the
present situation that the traditional cropping pattern should be changed
immediately. Moreover, there is a need to strictly switch over to the
technologies related to soil and agronomic management that save water without a
loss in crop yields, leading to higher productivity per unit use of water.
These technologies include planting and Ansplanting time of crops, irrigation
scheduling and new irrigation methods, (e.g. sprinkler, drip, furrow etc.) For
using available water resources effectively and efficiently, water users'
associations/societies should be constituted. Various measures/ technologies
for enhancing artificial groundwater recharge should also be adopted. We must
hear the warning bells and act before it is too late. Every drop of water is
precious and needs to be saved wherever and in whatever way it is possible.
Questions 1-3
Do
the following statements agree with the writer in the Reading Passage?
Write TRUE, if the statement is true.
Write FALSE, if the statement is
false.
Write NOT GIVEN, if the statement is
not given.
1 Traditional cropping pattern should
be preserved.
2 Artificial groundwater recharging
systems are widely adopted by the farmers in Punjab.
3 Water consumers associations should
be formed to preserve water resources.
Questions 4-6
Choose the correct
letter, A, B, C, D.
4 Consumption of the water to produce
rice depends upon
A variety of rice B area of crop
production C sowing time of the crop D.A. these
5 To save water without effecting crop
production there should be Information in A technologies related to irrigation
B management technology
C technologies related to crop and
agronomic management D scientific methods
6 One kilogram of rice production
consumes ___________ liters of water.
A) 3000-4000 B) 2000-5000 C)
3500-4000 D) 4000-5000
Choose the correct word to fi in the
banks.
Questions 7-10
A increasing B methods C
adopted D valuable
Various 7______________ /technologies
for 8______________ artificial groundwater recharge should also be
9_____________ .Every drop of water is 10______________ and needs to be saved.
WRITING
I You are Rupinder, President of Guru
Gobind Singh Apartments Society, Mohali. Write a notice to invite all the
residents of your society to attend an awareness campaign against misuse of
water.
