EVS Worksheet : Animals Around Us For Class 2

Mammals

A mammal is the animal that breathes air, has a backbone, and grows hair at some point during its life. In addition, all female mammals have mammary glands that can produce milk. Mammals are among the most intelligent of all living creatures on earth.

Mammals include a wide variety of animals, from cats to humans to the huge whales. There are more than 5,000 species of living mammals. More than half of all mammals are rodents, a group that includes mice and squirrels. Mammals are found in almost every major habitat around the world. Most mammals live on land, that is on the ground, in trees, or even underground. Humans have long depended on other mammals for their meat and milk. They also have used mammals’ skins and hair for clothing and other purposes. In addition, people have domesticated many mammals.

However, today many mammals compete with humans for food and space. As a result, many species of mammals have died out or exist only in zoos now . Other types are now endangered because of overhunting or the destruction of their habitats by humans.

Parts of the mammal (A cat)

Ears

Each of a cat’s ears have thirty-two muscles, allowing them to rotate them and hear in many directions. Besides an excellent sense of hearing, a cat’s ears enable him to land on his two feet due to a tiny chamber in each ear that keeps their head in a level relationship to the ground when they leap or fall from anywhere.

Eyes

Cats have excellent nocturnal vision because of the mirror-like tympanum, a reflective layer behind the retina which reflects light and bounces it back off the cones, making more use of the existing light.

Nose

The cat’s nasal organ is comparatively larger than a human’s; their sense of smell is more than ten times stronger. Like the human fingerprint, a cat’s nose pad is unique to them.

Claws and Teeth

A cat’s claws are also used for marking territory to its enemies , as well as climbing. Along with it’s sharp teeth, a cat will use its claws to tear apart it’s small prey.

Tail

Cats use their tails when they are feeling defensive. They flick their tail from the end so that it becomes more pronounced.

Fur

Cat fur efficiently regulates their body temperature and helps the cat to blend into its surroundings. Cats actually have two coats of fur: a short, inner coat that provides insulation and a longer, outer coat that keeps the cat dry. Wild cats are like the cheetah that possesses fur that creates camouflage to aid the cat in its hunting activities.

Instructions to solve worksheet

Given below is a picture of a mammal (a cat) on the basis of your learning and understanding label the body parts of the mammal using the words given in the suggestion box.

Importance of Environmental Education

• EVS helps children to develop their own insights into the functioning of several things or understanding human processes in their environment. Such interactions with their surrounding environment are immensely important for the healthy development of children.
• Not only does environmental education offer opportunities for experiential learning outside of the classroom, it enables students to make connections and apply their learning in the real world.
• EVS helps learners see the interconnectedness of social, ecological, economic, cultural, and political issues.
• By providing environmental education to students they will engage problem-solving techniques of the outer world to their subjects to understand a particular problem by implying outdoor environmental solutions.
• Environmental Education gives students a new meaning of exploring mother nature to see and resolve the issues which are harmful to the environment and this will also help them in maintaining their own health by doing physical work so that their bodies will be immune from some serious health issues such as short-sightedness, obesity and in some cases even lack concentration.
• The one major issues which we need to deal with is pollution and if we don’t educate our kids about the hazardous effects of environmental damage there will be no future of the world.