1. FOOD: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM Science class 6 exercise Important Questions with solution
1. FOOD: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM Science class 6 exercise Important Questions with solution ncert book solution in english-medium
NCERT Books Subjects for class 6th Hindi Medium
Chapter Review
Chapter Review:
- 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 (NCERT Text Book)
Exercise:
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
Important Questions With Solution
Q1 : Name two main sources of food materials.
Ans :
- Plants
- 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;
- Herbivores
- Carnivores
- 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 Questions with solution
Important Question with solucation
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
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Science Chapter List
1. FOOD: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM
2. COMPONENTS OF FOOD
3. FIBRE TO FABRIC
4. SORTING MATERIAL INTO GROUPS
5. SEPARATION OF SUBSTANCES
6. CHANGES AROUND US
7. GETTING TO KNOW PLANTS
8. BODY MOVEMENTS
9. THE LIVING ORGANISMS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS
10. MOTION AND MEASUREMENT OF DISTANCES
11. LIGHT, SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS
12. ELECTRICITY AND CIRCUITS
13. FUN WITH MAGNETS
14. WATER
15. AIR AROUND US
16. GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT
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