Class 5, Chapter 8: A Treat for Mosquitoes (Question Answer)

 

EVS CLASS V  CHAPTER 8 (A TREAT FOR MOSQUITOES)

Q.1. What does a mosquito do when it bite us?

Ans. It sucks blood from our body.

Q.2. What are the symptoms a person shows who has malaria?

Ans. Shivering and Fever with chills and rigors.

Q.3. How do mosquito locate us to bite?

Ans. They use their sense of smell.

Q.4. In which season the malaria is common?

Ans. In rainy season.

Q.5. Where will you look for mosquitoes eggs in water?

Ans. At the top floating in water.

Q.6. Malaria spreads by?

Ans. Female mosquitoes.

Q.7. Name the diseases spread by mosquitoes?

Ans. 1. Malaria                      2. Dengue                             3. Chikungunya                   4. Phylaria

Q.8. Name the diseases that spread by flies?

Ans. 1. Cholera                      2. Diarrhea

Q.9. How does a person get malaria?

Ans. Malaria is a fever which spreads only by biting female mosquitoes.

Q.10. How can you prevent yourself from mosquitoes?

Ans. 1. Use mosquito net

2. Use mosquito repellent, ointment like odomos, oil, coil, hit spray etc.

Q.11. What is a microscope?

Ans. Microscope is a machine which shows things 1000 times bigger than its size and shape.

Q.12. What is Anaemia?

Ans. Deficiency of iron and lack of haemoglobin in the blood is called anaemia.

Q.13. What should we eat to increase iron and haemoglobin in blood?

Ans. We should eat jaggery, amla, leafy vegetables and iron rich fruits like apple, cheeku, guava etc. to increase iron and haemoglobin in the blood.

Q.14. Where the larvae of mosquitoes commonly seen?

Ans. Larvae of mosquitoes commonly seen in stagnant water.

Q.15. What are algae? Where it seen?

Ans. Very small and green plants found around watery spot are called Algae. It seen during rainy season on walls, ponds and wet places.

Q.15. What is the medicine of malaria?

And. The bark of cinchona tree.

Q.16. Who discovered malaria?

Ans. Sir Ronald Ross.

Q.17. When the Ronald Ross got Nobel prize?

Ans. December 1902

Q.18. When Sir Ronald Ross died and what were his words?

Ans. Sir Ronald Ross died in 1905, his words were “I will find something, I will find something new:

Q.19. Draw the picture of mosquito and write its body parts?

 

 

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