Pollution Class 6 Questions Answers, SCERT, Assam

Pollution Class 6 Questions Answers, SCERT, Assam: Pollution is the lesson 6 from class 6 SCERT, Assam Text Sunbeam English Reader. Here you will get to read Pollution Class 6 Questions Answers, SCERT, Assam. 

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Activities:

1. Do you realise the importance of protecting the environment form pollution? Check how much you remember by answering the following questions:

(a) The air mixed with dust and smoke is polluted air. How does the air get polluted in an industrial area ?

(b) Why do we need clean and fresh air ?

(c) What happens when the air becomes polluted ?

(d) Why is our environment getting spoilt ?

(e) How can we protect our environment ?

(f) How do green plants and trees help us and our environment ?

(g) What steps should we take to keep our environment clean ?

(h) How does water become polluted ?

(i) How does soil become polluted ?

Ans:

(a) In an industrial area, the smoke comes out of the chimneys, the air becomes thick with clouds of smoke and as a result the air get polluted. 

(b) We need clean and fresh air to breathe, If polluted air goes into our lungs, we may fall ill.

(c) When the air becomes polluted, the polluted air goes into our lungs. Then it causes many diseases in the human body.

(d) Our environment is getting spoilt because of the many reasons like harmful activities of mankind, release of toxic smoke from industries, too many use of pesticides, dumping garbage into water etc. 

(e) To protect our environment, we should make people aware of danger of pollution. We will have to stop the harmful practices, stop over use of pesticides, dumping garbage into water. 

(f) The trees enrich the air with oxygen. They use up carbon dioxide and other harmful gases. Trees protect us from a number of diseases. In this away green plants and trees help us and our environment. 

(g) We should not throw garbage and industrial waste into the rivers and seas. We must stop the uses of too many pesticides on the soil and should not dump industrial waste on the soil to make our soil pollution free. We should plant more trees to protect our environment.

(h) Water become polluted because we throw garbage and industrial waste into the rivers and seas.

(i) Soil become polluted because of over use of pesticides, dumping of non degradable household and industrial waste on soil make soil polluted.

Class 6, Lesson 6 Pollution Questions Answers

2. In the lesson you read about some ways in which our environment gets polluted. In your notebook make three columns like this:

          A                                             B                                     C

Air pollution                       Water pollution               Soil pollution

Fumes of automobiles

Now write the causes of these different types of pollution in the proper columns, taking the help of information provided in the lesson. One has been done for you.

Ans:

Water pollution: Dumping of wastes into water

Soil pollution: Over use of pesticides

3. Here's a game for you:

Say the word 'pollution' to your friend. Ask him or her to say a sentence with it. Then your friend will you say another word related to pollution and you will have to make a sentence with it. Continue the game using as many words related to pollution as you can think of.

Ans: 

Pollution: Pollution is a modern-day problem.

Air: We should breathe fresh air.

Industry: Industries releases harmful gases.

Water: Water is life.

Pesticides: We should use pesticides.

Global warming: Pollution is giving rise to global warming.

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4. Read the text again and find out the words that you do not understand. Look up their meanings in the dictionary. Write down the meaning suitable for the sentences in the text. One is done for you. 

waste: rubbish, especially domestic refuse

Ans:

pollution: the presence of contaminants in the natural environment 

environment: the surroundings 

industry: the manufacturing sector 

factory: a manufacturing unit 

toxic: poisonous 

pesticide: Insects Killing substance  

non-degradable: a product that does not get decomposed

5. Find out the hidden words in the grid. They are all related to the environment. Hint: There are six words across, and four down.

Ans:

Across             Down

1. Noise          Carbon

2. Cloud          Pollution

3. Water          Dust

4. Smoke        River

5. Oxygen

6. Waste