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Geo 5
Given below is a list of activities for Formative Assessment. A wide variety of activities
have been given keeping in mind the fact that the students in a classroom have multiple
intelligences. You could use them to assess the understanding of the students either at
the end of the chapter, or at the end of each section.
• Map work: Ask the students to look into an atlas to complete the activity.
• Chart work: The students can either draw or paste the weather report on a chart and
write the summary to complete the activity.
• Role play: Complete the activity on page 42.
• Scrap book: The students can show the clothes, food, houses and occupation of the
people of different states in India.
• Peer and self-assessment: Use the fill in the blanks, true and false and MCQs on pages
43 and 44 for peer and self-assessment.
HOTS
The HOTS question can be discussed in class.
Life skills
Ask the students to complete the activity and display their work in class. They have to
explain how their instrument works.
Value-based question
Ask the students to discuss the answers for the value-based question.
Follow-up • Find out the different weather instruments used for measuring changes in the weather.
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The temperature of a place decreases with onto land after passing over cold currents
an increase in altitude. The temperature lower the temperature of that coastal region.
decreases at the rate of 1ºC for every 160 m 5. What are Prevailing Winds? How are they
ascent. This happens because air is densest formed?
near the ground and thins rapidly with
Prevailing winds are planetary winds that are
height. The denser the air, the more is the
caused by the formation of giant convection
heat that is trapped. The thinner the air, the
cells over the Earth. Prevailing winds blow
more is the heat that escapes. So more the
from the hot regions of the Earth, like the
altitude of a place, the colder it will be.
tropics, to the cold areas of the Earth, like
4. How does the sea regulate the temperature the temperate or polar regions, and from the
of coastal regions? Add a note on ocean cold areas back to the hotter regions. Winds
currents. from warm regions increase the temperature
During daytime, along the coastal belts the of the cold places they blow into, and winds
land will get heated faster and the oceans from cold regions reduce the temperature of
take long to heat up, but once heated take the hot places they blow into.
longer to cool down. So, when the coastal
areas heat up, winds from the sea cool it, Multiple Choice Questions
and when the coastal areas cool down, heat 1. c & d 2.b 3.c 4.b 5.c
is transferred from the still warm oceans to
the land. Ocean currents are rivers of hot Value-based question
or cold water that flow within the oceans. • Being dedicated
Winds that blow over hot ocean currents
• Being determined
get heated and carry that heat onto the land
they blow over, raising the temperature of • Being helpful and compassionate
the coast there. Similarly, winds that blow • Being courageous in the face of threat to
one’s life
Answer key for the worksheet
I. 1. energy 2. Advection 3. Colder 4. Rises; and cool down. So when the coastal areas
settles down 5. decreases 6. convection heat up during day time winds from the
II. 1. e; 2. d; 3. a; 4. b; 5. c sea cool it and when the coastal areas cool
down at night the heat is transferred from
III. 1. d; 2. a; 3. b; 4. c; 5. b; 6. b
the still warm oceans to the land, warming
IV. 1. True 2. False 3. False it. Places in the interior are far removed
V. 1. Coastal areas experience the moderating from the moderating influence of sea so
effect of the sea. Land gets heated faster they experience very hot summers and cold
than the sea but also cools down faster. winters.
The oceans take a longer time to heat up
2. Planetary winds blow from hot regions to into and the winds from cold regions reduce
the cold areas of the Earth and back again. the temperature of the hot places they blow
The winds from the warm regions increase into.
the temperature of the cold places they blow
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