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Step-by-step NCERT solutions for Earth — Our Shared Home (Chapter 10, NCERT Class 5 The World Around Us) — every question and answer worked out in full, not just the final result. You can also read the Earth — Our Shared Home textbook chapter.

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What these solutions cover

All 29 questions in Earth — Our Shared Home are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:

Activity 1 — My address and the globe

  1. Fill up your address: Name, House number/building name, Street name, Village/Town/City, District, State/Union Territory, Country, Planet.
  2. Use a globe and find out:
    • (a) Are all the oceans on Earth connected with each other?
    • (b) Where is India on the globe?

Write — Story 1: The Travelling Birds (Rosy Starlings)

  1. Does the rosy starling visit your area? What is it called locally?
  2. What does this story tell us about nature?

Write — Nature has no boundaries

  1. What does it mean when we say 'nature has no boundaries'?

Activity 2 — Birds poster and globe tracing (Story 1)

  1. Make a poster of 5 birds that visit your place in winter. Try to find out where they come from.
  2. Using a string, trace the journey on a globe showing the paths rosy starlings take (Russia/Mongolia to India).
  3. Imagine you are a bird travelling the world. Write a short postcard or note about what you see and what helps you on your journey (wind, ocean currents, warm weather). Share it with your classmates.

Discuss — Story 2: Yoga

  1. Why do you think yoga became popular in so many countries?

Write — Yoga pose

  1. Can you name a yoga pose you have tried or seen? What do you think it helps with?

Write — Story 3: Chilli

  1. What would happen if chillies disappeared from our kitchens for a week?
  2. Ask your parents and write down the name of any recipe in which they have used black pepper and not red chillies.

Activity 3 — Chilli journey and food stories

  1. Using a coloured string, trace the journey of chillies from South America to India on the globe.
  2. Potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts, cashews, and many other foods have similar stories. Find out and write the story of any one of them.

Discuss — Story 4: Sugar

  1. If you could choose one Indian food to share with the world, what would it be?
  2. What kind of new food items do you think will travel in the future?

Write — Story 5: The Mexican Marigold

  1. Why do you think both Indian and Mexican cultures use marigolds during their festivals?
  2. Why do you think people in different countries include flowers in their celebrations?

Write — Story 6: The Cows that Went to Brazil

  1. What does this story tell us about animals moving from one place to another?

Activity 4 — Cow breeds and things from around the world

  1. With help of your teacher or an elder find out the names of at least 5 different breeds of cows.
  2. Make a list of a few things in your house or school that may have come from another part of the world. Find out where they originally came from. (Items: Clothing — Jeans; Food; Sports; Musical instruments; Tree)

Activity 5 — Interview and map tracing

  1. Interview a grandparent or neighbour: Ask them about a food item, song, or custom that was not there in their childhood but is common today. Find out where it came from.
  2. From the stories you have read: List different things that came to India from other countries and those that travelled from India to the world. Then, using two different coloured strings, trace their journeys on a map.

Write — Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

  1. What does 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' teach us?
  2. Write the meaning of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' in your own words.
  3. How can we live like one big family, even when we are different?

Let us reflect

  1. Pick one of the ideas from the chapter. Write a short story about how this idea might have travelled from one place to another long ago. Think about how it helped people change their lives or the way they think.
  2. Write one way you can care for the Earth.
  3. Identify an item that can travel from India to other parts of the world and write about it.
Sample

Worked examples

3 questions from Earth — Our Shared Home, solved step by step.

Activity 1 — My address and the globe

Fill up your address: Name, House number/building name, Street name, Village/Town/City, District, State/Union Territory, Country, Planet.

This is a personal activity. Fill in your own details.

Name: (your name)

House number/building name: (your house number or building name)

Street name: (your street or lane name)

Village/Town/City: (your village, town, or city)

District: (your district)

State/Union Territory: (your state or union territory)

Country: India

Planet: Earth

Answer: Fill in your own details for Name, House number, Street, Village/Town/City, District, State/UT. Country: India. Planet: Earth. (Personal details will vary.)

Write — Story 1: The Travelling Birds (Rosy Starlings)

What does this story tell us about nature?

The story of the rosy starling tells us that nature has no boundaries.

Animals and birds travel freely across countries and continents, showing how deeply all of nature is connected.

These birds also help farmers by eating locusts and grasshoppers, showing that different parts of nature depend on and help each other.

Answer: The story tells us that nature has no boundaries — birds like rosy starlings travel freely across countries. It also shows how nature is interconnected: these birds help Indian farmers by eating pests, even though they come from far-away lands.

Write — Nature has no boundaries

What does it mean when we say 'nature has no boundaries'?

When we say nature has no boundaries, it means that in the natural world, there are no walls, fences, or country borders.

Air, water, clouds, seeds, and animals move freely all over the world.

A bird can fly from Russia to India; a seed can travel by wind or water from one continent to another.

Unlike humans who have drawn borders between countries, nature treats the whole Earth as one connected home.

Answer: 'Nature has no boundaries' means that air, water, seeds, birds, and animals move freely all over the world without stopping at country borders. Nature treats the entire Earth as one connected home.

All 29 questions in Earth — Our Shared Home are solved step by step in the Solutions PDF above.

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