NCERT Solutions for Class 3 EVS Chapter 11: From Here to There

The ‘roads of iron’ in the poem refer to the iron railway tracks on the ground on which a train moves.

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I enjoyed the poem about the moving train.

A train cannot move anywhere like other vehicles. A train moves on the metal tracks built on the ground.

No, not all vehicles are used for our travel. Some of these are used for transporting goods, letters and parcels while others are used for moving patients and disabled persons, towing heavy things, and farming.

Vehicle	Used for
Push Cart	Transporting small goods, selling fruits and vegetables.
Mail Truck	Carrying letters, parcels, and packages.
Rickshaw with hand-operated pedals	Used by disabled people.
Tractor	Ploughing the fields.
Double-decker bus	Carrying passengers.
Ambulance	Carrying patients.
Cargo Ship	Used for transporting goods from one country to another through seas and oceans.
Police Car	Police officers travel in these cars to patrol the roads, chase criminals, and arrive at the crime scenes.

My family and I went from Mumbai to our village in Konkan by train during Diwali.
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The train passed across the meadows, then over the hills, passed by the mills, passed the aged farmers, temples, wells in the villages, lush green fields having broken walls, fields of potato, clouds of smokes, village fairs, birds, riders with their mares, dhobi ghats, tea shops and many more.

I have travelled in buses, autorickshaws, trains, boats, and bullock carts.
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(i) If I am travelling by car or aeroplane, I would always fasten the seatbelts.
(ii) I would not stand by the open doors of a moving train.
(iii) When travelling by boat, I would not lean over to touch the water.
(iv) I will not board a moving bus or get down from it.
(v) I will obey the traffic signals.

Fifty years ago, people travelled mostly by bicycles, bullock-carts, horse-driven tongas, steam engine trains, ships, etc. Vehicles, such as trucks, trains, airplanes, and ships, were available only for the rich people. Cars, buses, and motorcycles were seen in the big cities

The children travelled from their homes to different places by a variety of vehicles—

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 I got a picture of an elephant.

When many are vehicles running together on the road it becomes an unpleasant scene because different types of loud noise can be heard at once, which is quite irritating.

 do not like such noise because it gives me a headache and I feel extremely disturbed.
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In this picture, we can see that a building has caught fire. Firefighters are rushing to the building with their hose pipes. Water is gushing out of the fire engine towards the upper storeys of the building. One fireman is at the top of a ladder, also trying to control the fire using a hosepipe. A police van is there to control the alarming situation, and an ambulance is ready to take the injured people to the nearby hospital

Fire truck, fire engine, police van and ambulance.

A fire truck and a fire engine are used for carrying the firemen to the site of an accident along with the necessary things required to put out the fire, like—water, pump, hosepipes, ladders, and rescue equipment. The policemen come in the police van to the place they are needed. An ambulance is used for moving injured people and patients.