NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 6 Some Unique Places
Updated on 2026-09-19
About this chapter
An island is land with water all round it. India has more than a thousand islands. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a long chain of islands in the Bay of Bengal . Their capital city is Sri Vijaya Puram (it used to be called Port Blair). The southernmost tip of the whole of India is Indira Point , and it is on Great Nicobar Island — not Kanyakumari. Kanyakumari is only the southernmost point of the Indian mainland , the big joined-up piece of land. Some plants and animals live in one place on Earth and nowhere else. The Andaman wood pigeon and the Andaman hornbill are found only in these islands. The lion-tailed macaque is found only in the Western Ghats. This happens because the sea, or a wall of hills, cuts a place off. Animals cannot walk across, so over thousands of years they slowly
- The southernmost point of India; the islands
- Why roots hold a tree up
- Birds and animals of the islands
- Sea animals
- Marine Interpretation Centre; North Sentinel Island
- Sundarbans: Home of the Mangroves
- People and the mangroves
- Caring for the Sundarbans
- Special features that help living things survive
- The mask; the Northeastern states
Quick revision
| Word | What it means | Where it appears | An everyday example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island | Land with water all round it | Do you know?, page 95 | Majuli in the Brahmaputra; the Andamans in the sea |
| Indira Point | The southernmost tip of India, on Great Nicobar Island | Find out, page 95 | The last bit of India before open ocean |
| Sri Vijaya Puram | The capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (earlier Port Blair) | Islands of India, page 95 | Where Shanti's family began their trip |
| Buttress roots | Wide, plank-like roots that flare from the bottom of a tall tree and hold it up | Page 95–96 | Like the wide base under a table lamp |
| Ferry | A boat that carries people across water from one place to another | Page 97 | The boat to the next island |
| Life jacket | A jacket full of air or foam that keeps you floating | Safety Measures, page 97 | Worn by everyone in a boat, even good swimmers |
| Coral | Tiny sea animals that live in groups and build hard homes around themselves | Page 98 | The pink lump in the picture on page 110 |
| Coral reef | A ridge under the sea built up from the homes of millions of corals | Discuss, page 98 | A hiding place and nursery for small fish |
| Mangrove | A special tree that can grow in muddy, salty water where the river meets the sea | Sundarbans, page 99 | The Sundari tree of the Sundarbans |
| Breathing roots | Thin roots that stick up out of the mud so the tree can take in air | Page 99–100 | The stick-like things Shanti saw in the water |
| Seven Sisters | The seven Northeastern states; with Sikkim they make up Northeast India | Page 101 | Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and four more |
| Hargila | The Greater Adjutant Stork, a very tall bird protected by women in Assam | Page 103 | The bird whose nests children are taught to guard |
| Living root bridge | A bridge grown by training tree roots across a stream until they are strong | Page 104 | The root bridges of Meghalaya |
| Nature's hotspot | A place with a great many living things found nowhere else on Earth | Page 105 | The Northeast; the Western Ghats |
| Western Ghats | A long chain of forested hills along India's western side, in six states | Western Ghats, page 105 | Where the Kaveri and the Krishna begin |
| Protected area | A forest, river or hill kept safe by the government; no cutting, no hunting | Do you know?, page 108 | Silent Valley National Park in Kerala |
Exercises
- The southernmost point of India; the islands — Find out Page 95
- Why roots hold a tree up — Activity 1 Page 96
- Birds and animals of the islands — In-text Question Page 97
- Sea animals — Write Page 97–98
- Marine Interpretation Centre; North Sentinel Island — Discuss Page 98
- Sundarbans: Home of the Mangroves — Write Page 99
- People and the mangroves — Write Page 100
- Caring for the Sundarbans — Discuss Page 101
- Special features that help living things survive — Find out Page 101
- The mask; the Northeastern states — In-text Questions Page 101
- The Northeast market picture — Write Page 102
- A protection plan for an animal near you — Discuss Page 104
- Make a bird's nest — Activity 2 Page 104
- The root bridge challenge — Activity 3 Page 105
- Western Ghats — Write Page 105–106
- Rivers of the Western Ghats — Write Page 106
- Local fruits and vegetables and their varieties — Activity 4 Page 107
- Protected areas of the Western Ghats — Write Page 109
- Closing questions — Let us reflect Page 109–111