Maharashtra Board Textbook Solutions for Standard Ten

Chapter 1 - Field Visit

Answer in short : 

(1) Make a report on your field visit.

Ans: Students must do this on their own. 

 

(2) Prepare a questionnaire for a field visit to a factory.

Ans: A questionnaire for a field visit to a factory will be as follows: 

(i) Which product is manufactured in the factory?

(ii) What are the raw materials used to make the final goods? 

(iii) Where do the raw materials come from?

(iv) In which market is the final product sold? 

(v) How many people are employed in the factory?

(vi) Do you have shifts for your employees? What are their timings?

(vii) What safety measures do you adopt for your staff? 

(viii) What precautions have been taken to prevent a fire hazard?

(ix) What precautions have been taken to prevent or reduce environmental pollution?

 

(3) How will you manage the litter during the field visit?

Ans: 

(i) It is our special responsibility to ensure that the cleanliness and sanctity of the place of visit is maintained during the visit.

(ii) During field visit, we must ensure that we do not throw any trash or litter around us. 

(iii) We must use the dustbins for throwing empty packets of snacks, empty water bottles, left-over food items etc.

(iv) Also one must try to keep surrounding clean by segregation of wet and dry waste. 

(v) We can also avoid usage of plastic bags and instead can make use of jute or cloth bags.

 

(4) What items will you take with you for the field visit?

Ans: If I were to do a field visit. I would have carried the following things:

(i) Notebook

(ii) Pen

(iii) Pencil

(iv) Ziplock bags to collect samples

(v) Camera

(vi) Binoculars

(vii) Magnetic compass

(viii) Map of the place

(ix) First aid kit

(x) Information booklet about the place to be visited

(xi) GPS enabled mobile phone

(xii) Cap

(xiii) Water bottle, etc.

 

(5) Outline the importance of field-visit.

Ans: 

(i) Geography is a science to be learnt through observation.

(ii) Field study gives us an opportunity to get firsthand information of the place of visit. 

(iii) Students learn the relationship between physical and cultural factors and how man adapts himself accordingly. 

(iv) They also learn to compare the areas and their activities.

(v) They develop the skill of observation and reasoning. 

(vi) They get an opportunity to interact with the local people and understand their problems. 

(vii) Students develop the feeling of belonging to these regions.