Answer in short :
(1) Make a report on your field visit.
Ans. Field Trip to Kaziranga National Park
1. Aims and Objectives: KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, a name known to worldwide for its success in the conservation history of one horned Indian Rhinoceros, habitat for a number of threatened species and migratory birds.
2. Status of Kaziranga National Park: The entire Kaziranga National Park area was formed by the alluvial deposits of the Brahmaputra river and its smaller tributaries, which carry a great amount of silt during the rainy season every year.
3. Flora and Fauna:
The floristic composition of the Kaziranga National Park comprises of following forest types and biomes:
• Eastern Wet alluvial grasslands
• Assam Alluvial plains Semi-evergreen forests
• Tropical moist mixed deciduous forests
• Eastern Dillenia Swamp forests
• Wetlands
• Sandy “chars”
Fauna:
Mammals: The Kaziranga National Park supports more than 35 species of mammals of which 15 belong to Schedule I of Wildlife Protection Act’1972. It harbours the World’s largest population of Indian Rhinoceros
Birds: Numerous water bodies constitute rich reservoir of food and thousands of migratory birds representing over hundred species visit the parks seasonally during winter from as far as Siberia.
4. Habitat Management:
The other important aspect of management in Kaziranga is to maintain the seral stage of grassland by preventing invasion of tree forest.
5. Wildlife conservation strategies:
Wild life conservation strategies consist of mainly two components viz. Antipoaching activities to counter the threat of organized gangs of poachers and Habitat manipulation to maintain the grasslands, wet lands in perpetuity to provide a suitable habitat for the Rhinos and other wildlife.
6. Human-wild animal co-existence in Kaziranga:
There are 75 revenue villages along the southern boundary of the park and inhabited by more than 1 lakh people. Attitude of local people towards wild animal in Kaziranga is particularly interesting.
(2) Prepare a questionnaire for a field visit to a factory.
(2) Prepare a questionnaire for a field visit to a sugar factory. (Nov. ’20)
Ans. The questionnaire for a field visit to a factory is as follows :
(1) Who is the founder of this company?
(2)When was the factory/establishment started?
(3) Which goods are manufactured in this factory?
(4) How many employees are there in the establishment?
(5) Do you have a canteen?
(6) What are the raw materials used to make the final goods?
(7) Where are the goods manufactured supplied ?
(8) What safety measures do you adopt for your staff?
(9) What precautions have been taken to prevent or reduce environmental pollution?
(3) How will you manage the litter during the field visit? (March ’ 19)
Ans.
(1) By avoiding usage of plastic bags and plastic bottles.
(2) Always throwing waste material into the dustbin.
(3) By reducing waste as much as possible.
(4) Requesting my friends to maintain cleanliness.
(4) What items will you take with you for the field visit? (Sept. ’21)
Ans. We will take the following items with us for field visit:
(1) Notebook, pen, pencil, scale, mobile phone, camera, binoculars, etc. to collect information.
(2) Compass or GPS enabled mobile phone for knowing directions and maps for understanding various locations.
(3) Questionnaire as per the purpose of field visit.
(4) Containers or bags for collecting samples of water/soil/rocks/plants/crops, etc.
(5) A cap, a bottle of drinking water, first aid box, etc.
(5) Outline the importance of field-visit.
Ans.
(1) Field Trips are important to help bridge the gap between education and hands-on experience.
(2) Field trips take the book learning from the classroom and extend it to life.
(3) Students learn the relationship between various geographical factors.
(4) It develops interest of the students to get more about the places.