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    CARMEL JUNIOR COLLEGE

    HOME ASSIGNMENT

    CLASS – 5

    SUBJECT – SCIENCE

    TOPIC – CLEANLINESS AND HYGIENE

    TO BE DONE IN THE SCIENCE NOTEBOOK

    D. Write short answers

    1. Define personal hygiene.

    Ans. Personal hygiene is the practice of keeping ourselves clean. It involves keeping our body parts
    clean and free of germs.

    2. How can you keep your hair clean?

    Ans. Washing hair with shampoo once a week helps to the hair and scalp clean.

    3. Why should we always wear clean socks and inner clothes?

    Ans. We should always wear clean sock and inner clothes because these clothes are next to our skin,
    dead cells and germs get accumulated there.

    4. Why should we always drink boiled and filtered water?

    Ans. Boiling kills most of the germs present in water. Therefore we should always drink boiled and
    filtered water.

    E. ANSWER THESE QUESTION.

    1. How can we take care of our hands?

    Ans. We should wash our hands before and after meals, every time after using the toilet, after
    touching any animal or equipment, or any contaminated objects such as dustbins.

    2. What are communicable diseases? How do they spread?

    Ans. The diseases which spread from an infected person to a healthy person directly or indirectly are
    called communicable diseases. They spread from an infected person to a healthy person through air,
    water, food and insects, or by direct contact.

    3. Write three steps that help us to take care of our eyes.

    Ans. We should take care of our eyes by following these steps-

    i. Splash your eyes with clean water two or three times a day’
    ii. Maintain proper eye distance when working on a computer.
    iii. Do not watch television or work on a computer for long periods. Take a bread after
    every 20 minutes.

    4. Write about 3 R’s of managing waste.

    Ans. We can reduce the amount of biodegradable waste by following the three R’s –
    i. Reduce – We should only buy what we really need. We should use plates, spoons and
    glasses made of metal, glass or ceramic, instead of using the disposable ones.
    ii. Reuse – We should always try to find new ways to use things before throwing them
    away. We should store food in reusable containers.
    iii. Recycle – Dry waste should be sorted and should be sent to recycling plant for making
    new things. We should buy things that are made from recycled material.

    5. Differentiate between biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste.

    Ans.

    Biodegradable Non-biodegradable
    *Waste that can decay and mix with the soil is *Waste that cannot decay and does not mix with
    called biodegradable waste. the soil is called non-biodegradable.
    *Example - vegetable and fruit peels, leaves and *Example – plastics, rubber, metal and glass.
    thing made from paper and wood. * The blue container is used to throw non-
    * The green container is used to throw biodegradable waste.
    biodegradable waste.

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