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CTET 2021: EVS Mock Test-1. The test contains 30 Question in 30 Minutes.

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Welcome to CTET EVS Mock Test-1

1. The rate of dissolution of a solute depends on—

pressure

temperature

weight

surface area

2. What purpose does group learning serve in an EVS classroom?

To manage students easily and reduce workload

To inculcate values of cooperation and working together to enable each child participate actively and learn

Boys and girls can learn separately

To segregate high performers and low achieving students and to do remedial teaching

3. Which of the following is/are greenhouse gas/gases?

Water vapour

All of the above

Methane

Carbon dioxide

4. Which one of the following is responsible for turning Taj Mahal yellow?

Sulphur dioxide

Nitrogen dioxide

Chlorine

Sulphur

Both Sulphur dioxide and Nitrogen dioxide

5. What does ‘learning without burden’ in the context of Environmental Studies imply?

Less number of chapters in EVS textbooks

Load of incomprehension needs to be reduced

Less weight of schoolbag

The EVS curriculum needs to be reduced to half

6. Environmental Studies curriculum may lead to holistic learning of children if it is—

All of the above

inclusive

integrated

thematic

7. What will be the weight of an object on the surface of the earth whose mass is 10 kg on the moon’s surface?

60 N

10 kg

60 kg

98 N

8. Which National Curriculum Framework (NCF) recommended Environmental Studies to be taught as an integrated curricular area at the primary level?

NCF–1975

NCF–1988

NCF–2000

NCF–2005

9. To talk about emergency situations, Priya asked children’s experiences when they faced any emergencies. Children narrated their experiences with fire, electric shock and road accidents. She asked questions, assessed their existing understandings and discussed safety aspects using resources such as road safety advertisements from newspapers and also used LPG and electric bill to discuss safety guidelines on fire and electric shock respectively. Which is the most appropriate approach that Priya employed?

Experiential learning approach

Enquiry approach

Cognitive approach

Humanistic approach

10. Which region has the practice of shifting cultivation in India?

Southern region

South-eastern region

North-eastern region

North-western region

11. Women are weaker than men. It is a—

myth

superstition

stereotype

scientific fact

12. Which of the following is/are activity/activities in EVS classroom?

All of the above

Picture reading

Field visit

Use of blackboard

13. Which one of the following statements is not true for hydropower generated from river dams?

Hydropower facilities can have large environmental impacts.

Dams displace indigenous people from their river lifelines

Dams encourage sustainable growth.

It does not pollute water or air

14. Under which of the following conditions will the process of evaporation be slowest?

Both surface area and temperature increase

Both surface area and temperature decrease

Surface area increases but temperature decreases

Surface area decreases but temperature increases

15. In EVS teaching-learning, linking classroom learning to life outside school and enriching it implies—

whole school approach

linking textbooks to global environmental issues and concerns

going beyond curriculum

going beyond the textbooks

16. Which one of the following is a scalar quantity?

Gravity

Momentum

Mass

Weight

17. The EVS textbook has a chapter on snake charmer. It is intended to make children aware and be sensitized—

that snake charmers may not harm snakes and they need to be provided with alternatives before depriving them of their livelihoods

that animal keeping is good source of livelihood

for snake charmers as children do not see them often these days

that it is an illegal act

18. The ability to understand relative position of places, distances and directions is—

mapping skill

directional skill

positional skill

graphic skill

19. What is the mass of an object with a density of 15 g/mL and a volume of 3 mL?

18 g

5 g

45 g

12 g

20. Sushma wants her students to be sensitized for ‘conservation of trees’. Which one of the following is the most suitable strategy to do so?

Poster making

Conducting a debate in classroom

Helping children to adopt and nurture a plant

Group discussion

21. What is the location of Jammu & Kashmir and Goa with respect to Bihar in India?

South-west and North-east

East and West

North-west and South-west

West and East

22. Who built the Golconda Fort?

Kakatiya Dynasty

Chola Dynasty

Pallava Dynasty

Chalukya Dynasty

23. What do ‘alternative frameworks’ mean?

Ideas that differ from the formally accepted explanations of the concepts

All ideas that are firmly held by children

Ideas presently held by scientists and social scientists

Textbook explanations of various physical phenomena

24. What is the full form of ‘BALA’ ?

Building as Learning Aid

Braille as Learning Aid

Braille Aided Learning Assessment

Brain Aided Learning Assignment

25. Abhay asked his students to do a survey in groups on diseases that people in their neighbourhood suffered from. The survey is not mentioned in the textbook. Which option is not relevant for this teaching-learning strategy

It provided opportunity to interact with community

It enabled children understand data handling and work together

It helped the community understand the diseases that they suffered from

It helped children connect learning with real life

26. Why are cold deserts in India not affected by the monsoon?

Air is very thin in cold deserts.

Cold deserts have hot summers and extremely cold winters.

Cold deserts lie in the rain shadow of the Himalayas

Cold deserts are at a very high altitude

27. ‘Community’ is an important teaching and learning resource, because—

elderly people are wise and have time

one can accept all knowledge available in the community uncritically

it is inexpensive and accessible

it provides learning opportunity in real setting

28. What is the most relevant to the mid-day meal time in school?

It is a good teaching-learning opportunity for EVS teaching-learning

It is for the children who come empty stomach to school

It wastes a lot of precious time of teaching-learning

It is nothing to do with teaching-learning

29. An object in which no light rays can pass through is called—

transparent

opaque

translucent

convex

30. To class III students, Rama taught that a father, mother and their children constitute nuclear family and if grandparents and other relatives stay along, then it is an extended family. What do you think of this?

The teaching-learning approach is not inclusive.

The concept of family has to be taught like this.

The definition of a family is incorrect.

Rama is insensitive towards her students.