Class 4 · 4th standard · 2026-27

Class 4 EVS worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

Three free Class 4 EVS worksheets, with every question and every answer printed on this page rather than behind a download. Class 4 is the year EVS looks outward - past the neighbourhood to states and travel, past the shop to the farm, past the tap to the rain. The content is not difficult; what is new is following a chain of steps and giving a reason for every answer, which is what these sheets practise.

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3 worksheets · 105 questions · every answer on the page · no sign-up · aligned to NCERT's Class 4 EVS book is Our Wondrous World. Schools also use their own EVS readers, so these sheets are written to the skills rather than to one book's chapters.

What these practise

The four directions, and using them to describe a position
Indian states and their capitals, starting from your own region
Means of travel, chosen with a reason for the journey
Tracing a food back past the shop to the plant or animal
The water cycle in order, and why it is a cycle
Personal and mass communication, sorted by who it is meant for
Safety rules with the reason attached, not just the rule

Last updated 2026-07-28

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practice · medium · 20 min

Our country: states, travel and directions

Class 4 EVS · India, maps and travel · 34 questions with answers

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Class 4 introduces the four directions, states and capitals, and different means of travel. The content is straightforward; what is new is being asked to read a map or a table and pull an answer out of it.

Names the four main directions and uses them to describe a position
Matches well-known Indian states to their capitals
Chooses a sensible means of travel for a given journey and says why

Exercise 1 of 3 · 12 questions

Fill in the direction.

Fill in the blank · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

The sun rises in the ______ → east. The last one is the only one that needs working out rather than recalling: stand facing east, and north is on your left, south on your right. Doing it standing up once fixes it better than any diagram.

1)The sun rises in the ______.
2)The sun sets in the ______.
3)The Himalayas are in the ______ of India.
4)The Indian Ocean is to the ______ of India.
5)If you face east, north is on your ______ hand.
6)If you face north, east is on your ______ hand.
7)Sri Lanka is to the ______ of India.
8)The Thar Desert is in the ______ of India.
9)The Arabian Sea is to the ______ of India.
10)The Bay of Bengal is to the ______ of India.
11)A compass needle always points to the ______.
12)At noon your shadow is shortest and points roughly ______.

Answers

1) east
2) west
3) north
4) south
5) left
6) right
7) south
8) west
9) west
10) east
11) north
12) north

Exercise 2 of 3 · 12 questions

Write the capital of each state.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

Karnataka → Bengaluru. Start with your own state and the ones next to it - a child who learns their own region first has somewhere to attach the rest. Learning all twenty-eight as a list in one week is how they are forgotten by the following month.

1)Karnataka
2)Maharashtra
3)Tamil Nadu
4)West Bengal
5)Rajasthan
6)Kerala
7)Gujarat
8)Punjab
9)Bihar
10)Odisha
11)Assam
12)Telangana

Answers

1) Bengaluru
2) Mumbai
3) Chennai
4) Kolkata
5) Jaipur
6) Thiruvananthapuram
7) Gandhinagar
8) Chandigarh
9) Patna
10) Bhubaneswar
11) Dispur
12) Hyderabad

Exercise 3 of 3 · 10 questions

Which way would you travel, and why? One sentence each.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

From your house to a shop in the next street → on foot, because it is very close and does not need a vehicle. The mark is for the reason, not the choice. 'By car' with a good reason would also be accepted; 'aeroplane' would not, and your child should be able to say why.

1)From your house to a shop in the next street
2)From Bengaluru to Delhi in one day
3)From the mainland to an island
4)Carrying vegetables from a farm to a nearby town
5)From Chennai to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands
6)Up a steep hill path where no road has been built
7)Carrying coal from a mine to a factory 800 km away
8)Taking an injured person to hospital quickly
9)From one bank of a wide river to the other, where there is no bridge
10)Going three kilometres to school every morning

Answers

1) On foot, because it is very close and does not need a vehicle.
2) By aeroplane, because it is very far and the journey has to be finished in one day.
3) By ship or boat, because there is water in between and no road.
4) By truck or lorry, because it can carry a heavy load over a short distance by road.
5) By ship or aeroplane, because the islands are across the sea.
6) On foot or by mule, because vehicles cannot climb where there is no road.
7) By goods train, because a train carries very heavy loads cheaply over long distances.
8) By ambulance, because it is fast and other vehicles give way to it.
9) By boat or ferry, because there is no road across the water.
10) By bicycle or school bus, because it is too far to walk every day but still close by.

While your child works

Do the direction question standing up, facing the actual sunrise if you can. Two minutes of that beats any amount of diagram work.
Teach your own state and its neighbours first. Twenty-eight capitals learned as a list in one week are gone by the next month.
In the travel exercise the reason is the answer. Ask 'why not something else?' if your child writes only the vehicle.

Open the India, maps and travel worksheet on its own page

practice · medium · 20 min

Where our food and water come from

Class 4 EVS · Food, farming and water · 37 questions with answers

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Class 4 traces food back past the shop to the farm, and water back past the tap to the rain. Both are about following a chain of steps, which is the reasoning skill the year is really teaching.

Traces a familiar food back to the plant or animal it comes from
Puts the steps of the water cycle in order
Explains why a step in a chain matters

Exercise 1 of 4 · 12 questions

Where does each food come from? Write the plant or animal.

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

rice → the paddy plant. Rice is the seed of the paddy plant after the husk has been removed. Children often answer 'the shop' or 'the field' - both true and neither the answer. Ask 'and before that?' until you reach a plant or an animal.

1)rice
2)milk
3)sugar
4)mustard oil
5)honey
6)cotton cloth
7)wool
8)silk
9)dal
10)jaggery
11)coconut oil
12)paper

Answers

1) the paddy plant
2) cows or buffaloes
3) sugarcane
4) mustard seeds
5) bees
6) the cotton plant
7) sheep
8) silkworms
9) pulse plants such as arhar or moong
10) sugarcane
11) coconuts
12) trees (wood pulp)

Exercise 2 of 4 · 4 questions

Put the steps of the water cycle in order. Number them 1 to 4.

Put in order · Guided

Here’s one done for you

B comes first because nothing happens until the sun heats the water. Then D (it rises), A (it falls), C (it flows back). The word 'cycle' is the clue - the last step leads back to the first, which is why C ends at the sea where B began.

1)A. The clouds cool and rain falls.
2)B. The sun heats water in the sea and rivers.
3)C. The rain water flows into rivers and back to the sea.
4)D. The water turns into vapour and rises into the sky, forming clouds.

Answers

1) B, D, A, C

Exercise 3 of 4 · 11 questions

Answer in one sentence.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

Why do farmers need rain? → because crops need water to grow, and rain is how most fields get it. The answer has two halves: the fact, and the link back to the question. An answer that stops at 'because crops need water' has left out why rain specifically, and Class 4 marks the link.

1)Why do farmers need rain?
2)Why is a well dug deep?
3)Why should we not throw rubbish into a river?
4)Why does food come to the city from villages?
5)Why do people in a desert build houses with thick walls and small windows?
6)Why are houses in hilly areas given sloping roofs?
7)Why do fishermen go out to sea early in the morning?
8)Why is a canal dug from a river to the fields?
9)Why do villages usually grow up near a river or a well?
10)Why does a city need more water than a village of the same size?
11)Why do we boil water before drinking it in the rainy season?

Answers

1) Because crops need water to grow, and rain is how most fields get it.
2) Because water is found underground, and the well has to reach down to it.
3) Because it makes the water dirty for the people and animals who use it further downstream.
4) Because there is not enough land in cities to grow crops, so food is grown in villages and carried in.
5) Because thick walls and small windows keep the heat of the day out and the house cool inside.
6) So that heavy rain and snow slide off instead of collecting on the roof.
7) Because the sea is calmer then and the catch has to reach the market fresh.
8) So that river water can be carried to fields that the rain alone would not water.
9) Because people need water every day for drinking, washing, animals and crops.
10) Because a city has far more people, factories and vehicles packed into the same space.
11) Because rain water carries mud and germs into wells and tanks, and boiling kills the germs.

Exercise 4 of 4 · 10 questions

Write True or False. If it is false, write the correct sentence.

Write the answer · Challenge

Here’s one done for you

Rain water is salty like sea water. -> False. When the sun heats the sea, only the water rises as vapour and the salt stays behind. That is why rain is fresh even though it came from a salty sea, and it is the step children most often miss in the water cycle.

1)The sun drives the water cycle.
2)Rain water is salty like sea water.
3)Groundwater is the water stored under the ground.
4)A river always flows from the sea towards the mountains.
5)Evaporation turns water into vapour.
6)All the water on Earth can be drunk.
7)A dam stores river water for later use.
8)Crops in India depend mostly on the monsoon rain.
9)Water in a covered tank goes bad faster than in an open one.
10)Rainwater harvesting means collecting rain instead of letting it run away.

Answers

1) True.
2) False - rain water is not salty; the salt is left behind in the sea when water evaporates.
3) True.
4) False - a river flows from the mountains down to the sea.
5) True.
6) False - most of it is sea water, which is too salty to drink.
7) True.
8) True.
9) False - covering a tank keeps dust and insects out, so the water stays clean longer.
10) True.

While your child works

'And before that?' is the most useful prompt on this sheet. Children stop at the shop or the field and need one more step.
The water cycle is easier standing at a window in the rain than on paper. Point at where the water is going.
In the last exercise, the link back to the question is where the mark is - not the fact on its own.

Open the Food, farming and water worksheet on its own page

practice · medium · 20 min

Work, communication and staying safe

Class 4 EVS · Community, communication and safety · 34 questions with answers

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Class 4 sorts ways of communicating into old and new, and asks what makes a rule sensible rather than just what the rule is. Both need a reason attached, which is the pattern for the whole year.

Sorts means of communication into personal and mass
Explains why a safety rule exists rather than only naming it
Matches a worker to the service they provide

Exercise 1 of 3 · 12 questions

Sort each one: is it for one person, or for many people at once?

Write the answer · Warm-up

Here’s one done for you

letter → one person. A letter is written to somebody in particular. A newspaper is printed for everyone who buys it. That is the difference between personal communication and mass communication, and asking 'who is it meant for?' sorts every item on the list.

1)letter
2)newspaper
3)telephone call
4)television
5)radio
6)text message
7)email to a friend
8)a poster on a wall
9)a loudspeaker announcement
10)a postcard
11)a magazine
12)a video call to your cousin

Answers

1) one person
2) many people
3) one person
4) many people
5) many people
6) one person
7) one person
8) many people
9) many people
10) one person
11) many people
12) one person

Exercise 2 of 3 · 11 questions

Why does each rule exist? One sentence.

Write the answer · Guided

Here’s one done for you

Cross only at the zebra crossing → because drivers expect people to cross there and slow down for it. 'Because it is safe' repeats the question. The mark is for saying what actually makes it safer, and 'and why is that safer?' is the prompt that gets a child there.

1)Cross the road only at the zebra crossing.
2)Wear a helmet on a two-wheeler.
3)Do not touch a switch with wet hands.
4)Do not play near a well or a deep tank.
5)Do not put your hand out of a moving bus.
6)Wear a seat belt in a car.
7)Do not fly a kite near electric wires.
8)Do not eat food sold uncovered by the roadside.
9)Do not run on a wet floor.
10)Do not go close to a stray dog that is eating.
11)Never light a firecracker while holding it.

Answers

1) Because drivers expect people to cross there and slow down for it.
2) Because it protects your head if you fall, and head injuries are the most dangerous.
3) Because water carries electricity and you could get a shock.
4) Because you could slip and fall in, and it is deep and hard to get out of.
5) Because a passing vehicle could hit it.
6) Because it holds you in place if the car stops suddenly.
7) Because the string can touch a live wire and the electricity can travel down it.
8) Because flies and dust settle on it and leave germs that make us ill.
9) Because you can slip and hit your head, which is the worst kind of fall.
10) Because a dog guards its food and may bite even if it is usually gentle.
11) Because it can go off in your hand and burn it badly.

Exercise 3 of 3 · 11 questions

Who would you go to? Write the worker and the reason.

Write the answer · Practice

Here’s one done for you

A leaking tap → a plumber, because they repair pipes and taps. Both halves are needed. A child who writes only 'plumber' has answered the Class 2 version of the question - Class 4 wants the reason as well, and that pattern runs through every EVS chapter this year.

1)A tap in your house is leaking.
2)You need to send a parcel to another city.
3)There is a fire in a building.
4)Your younger brother has a high fever.
5)The electric wiring in your house has stopped working.
6)A thief has broken into a shop in your street.
7)You want to borrow a book to read at home.
8)Your cycle tyre has a puncture.
9)Someone in your house needs an injection at home.
10)Your school uniform needs to be stitched.
11)The street outside your house has not been swept for a week.

Answers

1) A plumber, because they repair pipes and taps.
2) The post office, because they carry letters and parcels between places.
3) The fire brigade, because they are trained and equipped to put out fires.
4) A doctor, because they can find out what is wrong and give the right medicine.
5) An electrician, because they are trained to work safely with electricity.
6) The police, because it is their job to deal with crime and catch thieves.
7) A librarian, because a library keeps books and lends them out.
8) A cycle mechanic, because they repair tyres and cycles.
9) A nurse, because nurses are trained to give injections and care for the sick.
10) A tailor, because they cut and stitch clothes.
11) The municipal office or the sweeper, because keeping streets clean is their work.

While your child works

'And why is that safer?' is the prompt for the safety exercise. Answers that repeat the question get no marks and children do not know that until told.
Use real examples from your own week - a parcel you sent, a repair someone came to do. EVS is the one subject where the material is genuinely in the room.
Both halves - who, and why - are needed in the last exercise. Point at the missing half rather than supplying it.

Open the Community, communication and safety worksheet on its own page

What changes in Class 4 EVS?

Two things, and the second is the one that catches children out.

The subject looks outward. Class 3 was the plant, the body, the neighbourhood. Class 4 is the state, the country, the journey from farm to city. Nothing here is conceptually hard - a child who is interested will absorb most of it from conversation.

Answers have to follow a chain. Where does rice come from? Not the shop - the paddy plant. What are the steps of the water cycle, in order? Why does that safety rule exist? Each of these asks a child to hold several steps together and pick the right one, and that is a reasoning skill rather than a memory one. It is also why a child who knows all the facts can still lose marks: they answer the first step and stop.

The prompt that fixes most of it at home is short: and before that? or and why is that safer? Class 4 EVS answers almost always stop one step early.

How should we use these at home?

Twenty minutes each, once or twice a week, and use what is actually around you. EVS is the one primary subject where the material is genuinely in the room - a parcel you sent this week, the rain outside, the vegetables in the kitchen.

Do the directions question standing up. Facing the real sunrise once fixes east and west better than any diagram.
Start capitals with your own state and its neighbours. Twenty-eight learned as a list in one week are gone by the next month.
Ask 'and why?' after every answer. The reason is where the Class 4 marks are, in every chapter.
Let your child mark their own work. Every answer is on the page for exactly that.

Where do Class 4 children usually stall?

Three places, all of them habits rather than knowledge gaps.

Stopping at the first step. 'Where does rice come from?' - 'The shop.' True, incomplete, and no marks.
Answers that repeat the question. 'Why cross at the zebra crossing?' - 'Because it is safe.' Class 4 wants what makes it safer.
Naming without explaining. The Class 2 answer given in a Class 4 year - the worker without the reason, the direction without the position.

What comes next is on our Class 5 page. EVS runs to the end of Class 5, after which it splits into Science and Social Science - three years earlier under ICSE, which is covered in how the boards differ.

Questions parents ask

Class 4 EVS worksheets - your questions

Are these Class 4 EVS worksheets free?

Yes. Every question and every answer is on this page, with no sign-up, no email wall and no account. The printable version puts the answers on a separate final sheet.

Do these include an answer key?

Yes, under each exercise on this page and on a separate sheet when printed. The reason half of each answer is written out, because that is where the Class 4 marks are.

Should my child memorise all the states and capitals?

Not in one go. Start with your own state and the ones bordering it, then widen out. A child with somewhere to attach a new capital keeps it; a child memorising a list of twenty-eight in a week does not.

My child says food comes from the shop. Is that wrong?

Not wrong, just incomplete - and it is the expected first answer at this age. Ask 'and before that?' repeatedly until you reach a plant or an animal. That chain is what the chapter is teaching.

How do I teach the four directions?

Standing up, facing the actual sunrise if you can. East in front, west behind, north on the left, south on the right. Two minutes of that beats any amount of diagram work on paper.

Are these matched to NCERT?

They are written to the skills Class 4 EVS expects rather than to one publisher's chapters, so they work whether your school uses NCERT's Our Wondrous World or its own reader.

How long should a Class 4 child spend on one worksheet?

About twenty minutes. If it takes much longer the sheet is too hard rather than your child being slow - go back to the Class 3 EVS sheets for a week and return.

Can I print these?

Yes. They print cleanly on A4 with the answers on a separate final page, and nothing needs to be downloaded or signed up for.

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Class 4 EVS worksheets, free, with every answer on the page

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Our country: states, travel and directions

Where our food and water come from

Work, communication and staying safe

Class 4 EVS - the guide

What changes in Class 4 EVS?

How should we use these at home?

Where do Class 4 children usually stall?

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