NCERT solutions for Environmental Studies - Looking Around [English] Class 5 chapter 13 - A Shelter so High! [Latest edition]

Check-in your map. Which states would one pass through while travelling from Mumbai to Kashmir?

Gaurav Jani passed through several states while going from Mumbai to Delhi. Find the capital cities of these states. Was there any other big town on his way?

Is Manali a plain or a hilly area? In which state is it?

Have you ever stayed in a tent? Where? What was it like?

Imagine that you were to stay alone in a small tent for two days and could take with you only ten things. Make a list of those ten things.

What are the different types of houses that you have seen? Tell your friends about it. Make drawings too.

During winters, Tashi and his family live on the ground floor. Why would they be doing so?

What is the roof of your house like? What all is the roof used for?

At what height is the place where you live?

Why did Gaurav Jani say - “This place is so high that it is difficult to breathe normally?”

Have you ever been to a hilly place? Where?

At what height was it? Did you have any difficulty in breathing there?

Which is the highest place you have been to?

For the Changpas their animals are a very important part of their life. Is any animal part of your life? For example, as a pet, or as helpers in farming.

List five ways in which different animals are a part of your life.

Do goat and sheep need their own fur and wool? Discuss.

You read that in Changthang the temperature drops below 0°C. Look at newspapers on the TV to find cities in India or abroad where the temperature drops below 0°C. In which months do you expect to see this?

Are there different types of houses in the place where you live? If yes, think about the reasons.

Think of your own house. Is there something special in it – like a sloping roof as it rains a lot, or a courtyard where you can sleep when it is hot or where things are kept in the sun (for drying, etc.)? Make a drawing.

What are the materials used for making your house? Is it mud, brick, stone, wood, or cement?

Look at this picture. Can you see any houses in the picture? These houses are made of stone and mud. Nobody lives here in winter. In summer, the Bakarwal people live here when they bring their goats to higher lands for grazing.

Can you guess the similarities and differences in the life of the Bakarwal people and the life of the Changpas?

You read about different kinds of shelters in Jammu and Kashmir – some on high mountains, some on water, some with beautiful designs in wood and stone, and some mobile shelters that can even be packed and carried to another place. 

Describe how these shelters suit the needs of the people who live there.

How are these different from the house you live in?