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• There are food items like milk, eggs, meat, chicken, fish, prawns, beef, pork and such others, which come from animals.
• The main sources of our food are plants and animals.
• Animals which eat only plants are called herbivores.
• Animals which eat only animals are called carnivores.
• All grains like wheat, rice, pea and fruits and vegetables.
• The components of any food items are known as ingredients.
• The eatable parts of plants are known as edible parts.
• The growth of baby plant from a seed is known as germination.
• Bees collect their honey in their hive.
• Nectar is sweet juice of flowers collected by bee which gets converted into honey. 

Exercise: 

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Q1: Do you find that all living beings need the same kind of food?

Ans: I think no, because there are many kinds of animals live in their different habitats and they need different kind of food to survive.

Q2: Name five plants and their parts that we eat.

Ans: 

No.	Plants	Their parts that we eat.
1.	Wheat	fruit
2.	apple	fruit
3.	Banana	Fruit and root
4.	Mustard	Leaves and seeds
5.	Radish	Root and leaves

Q3:  Match the items given in Column A with that in Column B

Column A	Column B
1. Milk, curd, paneer, ghee,	(a) eat other animals
2. Spinach, cauliflower, carrot	(b) eat plants and plant products
3. Lions and tigers	(c) are vegetables
4. Herbivores	(d) are all animal products

Ans: 

1.             (d)

2.             (c)

3.             (a)

4.             (b)

Q4:  Fill up the blanks with the words given:

herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore

(a) Tiger is a ____________________ because it eats only meat.

(b) Deer eats only plant products and so, is called ______________.

(c) Parrot eats only _________________ products.

(d) The ________________ that we drink, which comes from cows,                           buffaloes and goats is an animal product.

(e)     We get sugar from ___________________.

Ans:

(a) carnivore

(b) herbivore

(c) plant

(d) milk

(e) sugarcane

Important Questions With Solution

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Q1 : Name two main sources of food materials.

Ans :

1. Plants
2. Animals

Q2 : Write the name of food materials obtained from plants?

Ans : All grains like wheat, rice, pea and fruits and vegetables.

Q3 : Write the name of food materials obtained from animals?

Ans : Milk, eggs, meat, chicken, fish, prawns, beef, pork and such others, which come from animals.

Q4 : What are ingredients?

Ans : The components of any food items are known as ingredients. Like milk, rice, sugar and water are ingredients of food item Kheer.

Q5 : Write the name of source of ingredients which are used to cook food item Chicken Curry.

Ans : Plants and Animals.

Q6 : What are edible parts?

Ans : The eatable parts of plants are known as edible parts.

Q7 : Write the name of edible parts of plants?

Ans : fruits, flowers, leaves, stems and roots are the edible parts of plants.

Q8 : What is germination?

Ans : The growth of baby plant from a seed is known as germination.

Q9 : What is nectar?

Ans : Nectar is sweet juice of flowers collected by bee which gets converted into honey.

Q10 : Where do bees collect their honey?

Ans : Bees collect their honey in their hive.

Q11 : Write the variety of animals which are classified under taking food?

Ans : The variety of animals which are classified under taking food;

1. Herbivores
2. Carnivores
3. Omnivores

Q12 : What are Herbivores?

Ans : Animals which eat only plants or plant’s products are known as herbivores. Like cow, deer and buffalo etc.

Q13 : What are carnivores?

Ans : Animals which eat only animals or animal’s products are known as carnivores.

Q14 : What are omnivores?

Ans : Animals which eat both plants and animals. These are called omnivores. 

Important Question with solucation

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Q1 : Why is glucose given to sportspersons?

Ans : glucose is a type of carbohydrate, which can be quick source of energy.

Q3 : Why do we cook food?

Ans :

(I) To make food digestible and to improve its taste.
(ii) Cooking also kills the germs that are sometimes present in food.

Q4 : Why is it necessary to drink about 1.5 litres of water everyday?

Ans : Excretion, sweating and breathing makes us lose about 23

litres of water everyday. About 1.5 litres is made up for by drinking water and other liquids.

Q5 : Why water is needed for our body?
Ans:

(i) Water helps to carry digested food around the body.
(ii) Water help to carries wastes out of the body
(iii) It helps to regulate the body temperature.

Q6 : List the various edible parts of the plants, mention some examples also.
Ans :

ROOT - carrot, raddish, beetroot, turnip, sweet potato
STEM - sugarcane, ginger, onion, potato, colocasia (arbi)
LEAF - spinach, cabbage, lettuce, methi
FLOWER - cauliflower, broccoli, banana, pumpkin, clove, saffron

FRUIT - banana, mango, brinjal, tomato, cucumber

SEED - pulses, peanuts, coconut, methi seeds, almonds

Q6 : Classify the following as herbivore, carnivore or omnivore.
Ans :

Herbivorecows - goats, horses, elephants, giraffes, parrot, squirrel
Carnivore - crocodile, shark, tigers, lions, snake
Omnivore - bears, crow, humanbeing, cockroach

Q7 : Where does honey come from?

Ans : Bees collect NECTAR(sweet juices) from flower, convert it into honey and store it in
their hive.

Q8: Mention the source of food as plant or animal, for the following food items.

Ans:

(a)Chickenanimal
(b)riceplant
(c)onionplant
(d)oilplant and animal
(e)sugarplant
(f) milkanimal
(g) egganimal
(f) wheat flourplant.

Q9: What are sprouted seeds?

Ans: small white structure grown out of the seeds, which will be future shoot of the plants.

Q10: Write the ingredients and sources(plant or animal) for the given food
items?

Ans:

FOOD ITEM INGREDIENTS SOURCE
Potato curry 1.potato,garlic, onion, tomato plant
2. oil/ghee plant or animal
3. spices plant