Our country: states, travel and directions
Class 4 EVS · India, maps and travel · 34 questions with answers
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.