“Bleeding bark” refers to the area on the tree trunk where it has been hit with the axe. It bleeds because the wood cutter has wounded the tree by cutting and chopping it.
Section | Number of girls per thousand boys |
|---|---|
Scheduled Caste (SC) | 940 |
Scheduled Tribe (ST) | 970 |
Non-SC/ST | 920 |
Backward districts | 950 |
Non-backward districts | 920 |
Rural | 930 |
Urban | 910 |
(i) Represent the information above by a bar graph.
(ii) In the classroom discuss what conclusions can be arrived at from the graph.

