
A. Answer the following questions:
1. Which monsoon winds bring rain to India?
Answer: The South-west monsoon winds bring rain to India.
2. Name the months when it rains.
Answer: The months continue through the month of July, August and sometimes September too.
3. What changes can we see and feel in nature at the start of the rainy season?
Answer: When the rain starts falling, it becomes cool.The dry and thirsty Earth becomes wet and soft. Dry rivers, lakes, and ponds are filled with water.
4. Why are peasants happy when it rains?
Answer: Peasants are happy when it rains, because they can cultivate their fields and it give life to crops and vegetation .

5. What problems does heavy rains couse in a city?
Answer:Heavy rains bring problems for city people,the streets become muddy and slippery. Often the roads become water logged, car and buses cannot move and people have to wolk through dirty knee- deep water slowly.
6.Which vendors are happy during the rains? Why are they happy?
Answer: The venders who sells umbrellas and raincoats are happy because everyone buy their products to protect themselves from getting wet in the rain.
7. What is a rainy day at school?
Answer: In the rainy days at school the little boys and girls, however are very happy they sail paper boats in the water, the streets look like small rivers to the children.

8.What causes floods?
Answer: Heavy rains for days causes floods.
9. What happens when there is a flood?
Answer:The impact of flooding causes loss of human life, distruction of crops, loss of livestock and deterioration of health conditions going to water Borne diseases.
10.How do we try to control flowers?
Answer: We try to control floods by building high dams.