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Food: Where Does It Come From? Chapter 1 | Class 6 | NCERT

Exercises

Question 1: Do you find that all living beings need the same kind of food?

Answer: No, all living beings do not need the same kind of food. Some animals eat plants as food, and they are called herbivores. Some animals eat other animals, and they are called carnivores. Some others eat food from plant sources as well as animals, and such living beings are called omnivores.

Question 2: Name five plants and their parts that we eat.

Answer:

  • Apple – Fruit
  • Mango – Fruit
  • Potato – Stem
  • Carrot – Root
  • Spinach – Leaf
  • Wheat – Seed
  • Cauliflower – Flower

Question 3: Match the items given in Column A with that in Column B

Column AColumn B
Milk, Curd, Paneer, GheeEat other animals
Spinach, Cauliflower, carrotEat plants and plant products
Lions and tigersAre vegetables
HerbivoresAre all animal products

Answer:

Column AColumn B
Milk, Curd, Paneer, GheeAre all animal products
Spinach, Cauliflower, carrotAre vegetables
Lions and tigersEat other animals
HerbivoresEat plants and plant products

Question 4: 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 ____________.

Answer:

(a) Tiger is a carnivore because it eats only meat.
(b) Deer eats only plant products and so, is called herbivore.
(c) Parrot eats only plant products.
(d) The milk that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes and goats is an animal product.
(e) We get sugar from sugarcane.

NCERT Class 6 Science

Chapter 1: Food: Where Does It Come From?

Chapter 2: Components of Food

Chapter 3: Fibre to Fabric

Chapter 4: Sorting Materials and Groups

Chapter 5: Separation of Substances

Chapter 6: Changes Around Us

Chapter 7: Getting to Know Plants

Chapter 8: Body Movement

Chapter 9: The Living Organisms and Their Surroundings

Chapter 10: Motion and Measurement of Distances

Chapter 11: Light, Shadows and Reflections

Chapter 12: Electricity and Circuits

Chapter 13: Fun with Magnets

Chapter 14: Water

Chapter 15: Air Around Us

Chapter 16: Garbage In, Garbage Out

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