NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 10 Earth—Our Shared Home
Updated on 2026-09-19
About this chapter
From space, the Earth has no lines on it. Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to reach the International Space Station, said that when he looked at the Earth from outside, it looked completely one — no border, no state, no country was visible. Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to see the Earth from space, was asked how India looked from up there. He replied, “Saare Jahaan Se Achcha” — the best in the entire world. From that height you cannot even see your own city or village. You see only the big shapes of land and the blue of the sea. That is why the Earth is called the blue planet . You have an address, and its last line is the same for everybody. Your address goes from small to big — your house, your street, your village or town, your district, your state, you
- The Blue Planet
- Story 1: The Travelling Birds!
- Nature has no boundaries
- Story 2: Yoga—India's Gift to the World!
- Story 3: Chilli—A Spice that Changed our Lives!
- Story 4: The Sweet Story of Sugar!
- Story 5: The Mexican Marigold Moves into India!
- Story 6: The Cows that Went to Brazil!
- Web of Life
- One Earth, One Family!
Quick revision
| Word | What it means | Where it appears | An everyday example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue planet | A name for the Earth, because from space most of it looks blue — that blue is the sea | The Blue Planet, page 161 | The globe in your classroom: the blue parts are water |
| Border | A line people have drawn to show where one country or state ends and the next begins | Page 163 | The line between two states on a map of India |
| Address | Where you live, written from the smallest part to the biggest | Activity 1, page 162 | House number, street, village, district, state, country, planet |
| DIGIPIN | A 10-character digital code that names one small place in India | Do you know?, page 163 | A ‘name tag’ that helps an ambulance find your house |
| Migratory bird | A bird that flies to another country for one season and returns later; the Hindi edition calls this story प्रवासी पक्षी | Story 1, page 164 | Rosy starlings that come to India every winter |
| Rosy starling | A pink-and-black bird that comes to India in winter in huge flocks and eats crop pests | Story 1, page 164 | A flock swirling over a field like a cloud of smoke |
| Pest | An insect or animal that damages crops | Story 1, page 164 | Locusts and grasshoppers in a wheat field |
| Yoga | An old Indian practice of postures and breathing that keeps the body healthy and the mind calm | Story 2, page 166 | Doing Tadasana in the school ground on 21 June |
| Trade | Buying and selling between places, which also carries seeds, food and ideas from one land to another | Story 4, page 169 | Spices going out from India and paper coming in from China |
| Jaggery (gur) | Sweet solid food made by boiling sugarcane juice; India discovered it first, and later made sugar from it | Story 4, page 169 | Gur eaten with roti in winter |
| Breed | A kind of animal of the same sort that shares looks and qualities | Story 6, page 171 | Gir, Kankrej and Ongole are three breeds of Indian cow |
| Web of life | The idea that people, animals, plants and ideas are all joined to one another | Web of Life, page 172 | The bird eats the pest, the crop is saved, we get food |
| Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam | An old Indian saying meaning ‘the world is one family’ | One Earth, One Family!, page 173 | Treating a stranger the way you treat a cousin |
Exercises
- The Blue Planet — Activity 1 Page 162
- Story 1: The Travelling Birds! — In-text Questions Page 164
- Story 1: The Travelling Birds! — Write Page 164
- Story 1: The Travelling Birds! — Activity 2 Page 165
- Nature has no boundaries — Write Page 165
- Story 2: Yoga—India's Gift to the World! — In-text Question Page 166
- Story 2: Yoga—India's Gift to the World! — Discuss Page 167
- Story 2: Yoga—India's Gift to the World! — Write Page 167
- Story 3: Chilli—A Spice that Changed our Lives! — Write Page 168
- Story 3: Chilli—A Spice that Changed our Lives! — Activity 3 Page 168
- Story 4: The Sweet Story of Sugar! — Discuss Page 169
- Story 5: The Mexican Marigold Moves into India! — Write Page 170–171
- Story 6: The Cows that Went to Brazil! — Write Page 171
- Story 6: The Cows that Went to Brazil! — Activity 4 Page 172
- Web of Life — Activity 5 Page 173
- One Earth, One Family! — Write Page 176
- The closing questions of the chapter and of the book — Let us reflect Page 176