Q1 of 5 Page 31

Form an ‘Environment Club’ in your class and arrange various programmes related to environment.

Programmes that can be taken up by Environment Club:

1. Using plastic bottles to plant saplings


2. Making newspaper craft


3. Sewing cloth bags from scrap clothes etc.


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1

Fill in the blanks:

(a) The UN lays a special emphasis on resolving conflicts through…………...


(war, peaceful methods, pressure tactics)


(b) The UN has declared 8th March as the International……………..


(Women’s Day, Children’s Day, Environment Day)


(c) The year 1975 was declared as the…………..year by the UN.


(Children’s, Men’s, Women’s)

 2

Answer in one sentence each:

(a) How does the UN expect the nations to resolve their disputes and disagreements?


(b) When does the United Nations use the method of direct action?


(c) What work did the Indian Peace Keeping Force do in Somalia?

 3

Answer in three or four lines :

(a) What issues were discussed at the Earth Summit in 1992?


(b) Why has the UN declared the International Women’s Day?


(c) What is disarmament?

 2

Read aloud and discuss environment-related news items in your classroom.