Class 6 Science
Answer: Butter, cream, cheese, buttermilk, etc.
ch.1 Food Where Does It Come From 9. Are there any food materials that have other
sources than plants and animals? Name them, if any.
Answer: Yes, salt and water are obtained from
sources other than plants and animals.
Very Short Answer Question
1: What is the main ingredient of roti?
10. Why do boiled seeds fail to sprout?
Answer: Wheat flour is the main ingredients of roti.
Answer: Boiling kills the seeds.
2: What part of sugarcane plant is edible?
11. Where do bees store honey?
Answer: Stem of sugarcane plant is edible.
Answer: Bees store honey in beehives.
3: What is the main ingredient of biryani?
12. Name the food eaten by humans that is produced
Answer: The main ingredient in biryani is rice. by insects.
Answer: Honey is the only food produced by insects
that is eaten by humans.
4: Name a seed which can be sprouted?
Answer: Moong seeds can be easily sprouted.
13. Name one plant stem and one plant root from
which sugar is obtained.
5: What are plants eating animals called? Answer: Stem — Sugarcane Root — Beetroot
Answer: Plant eating animals are called herbivores.
14. The people of a village eat lots of rice, prawns and
crabs. Where do you think is the village located?
6. Name the food ingredients that are obtained from
plants. Answer: The village is located near the sea.
Answer: Grains, cereals, pulses, spices, vegetables and
fruits.
15. Who are non-vegetarians?
Answer: People who eat meat, fish, egg and other
7. Name the food materials that are obtained from food of animal origin are non-vegetarians.
animals.
Answer: Milk, meat products and eggs.
16. Give an example of a plant whose more than one
part is eaten as food.
8. Name three milk products used world over. Answer: Mustard
Answer: Ingredient Source Urad dal Plants Salt Sea
Water Natural resources Spices Plants Sugar Plants
17. What are milch animals?
Answer: The milk yielding animals such as cows,
buffaloes and goats are called as milch animals. 5. Give one word for each of the following:
(i) Honeybees suck from flower
18. What is the importance of spices in our food? Answer: Nectar
Answer: Spices add flavor and aroma to our food due (ii) Animals which eat other animals.
to which our food becomes tasty.
Answer: Carnivores
(iii) Animals which eat only plants and plant products.
Short answer Question Answer: Herbivores
1. Why should we avoid wastage of food? (iv) Animals which eat both plants and animals.
Answer: Enough food is not available for all of us. Answer: Omnivores
Food is very costly and poor people cannot afford to
buy.
6. Why do organisms need food? Write two reasons.
2. Where does honey come from? How is it produced? Answer: Food gives energy to do work/to grow/to
repair damaged parts, to protect the body against
Answer: Honey comes from honeybees. Honeybees diseases. (Any two)
collect nectar from flowers, convert it into honey and
store it in their hive.
7. Look at the food chain given below as seen in a field
and answer the questions that follow.
3. Name two ingredients in our food that are not
obtained from plants and Wheat → Rat → Snake → Eagle
animals. Mention one source for each ingredient. (i) The farmer of the wheat field uses pesticides and
kills all the rats. How is that useful to the farmer?
Answer:
Answer: Killing all the rats, the farmer saves his field
Salt: It is obtained from sea water or rocks. from the pests and his production of wheat will
increase.
Water: It is obtained from rivers, wells, taps, ponds,
tube wells, rain. (Any one) (ii) What will happen if all the snakes in the field are
removed?
Answer: If all the snakes are removed the population
4. Write the ingredient source of each of the
of rats in the field will increase and they will reduce
following:
the production of wheat by feeding on them.
Urad dal, salt, water, spices, sugar
8. How do herbivores differ from carnivores? * Omnivores
Answer: Herbivores eat only plants or plant products. * Carnivores
Their teeth are designed to chew plants and their
stomachs to digest them. Carnivores eat other * Herbivores
animals. They have sharp teeth to tear the flesh of
animals.
14. Name the animals which provide us milk.
Answer: Some important animals that give us milk are
9. Write two ways by which wastage of food can be cow, buffalo, goat and camel.
prevented.
Answer:
15. Name the animals which give us meat.
i. Avoid cooking more amount of food than required.
Answer: Some important meat giving animals are
ii. Food should be stored properly in refrigerators. goat, sheep and pig.
10. Classify the following animals into herbivores, 16. Name some other animals that give us food.
carnivores and omnivores:
Answer: Besides milk and meat, animals give us useful
Rat, lion, tiger, spider, house lizard, cow, human food products. For example:
beings, butterfly, crow
* Birds like chicken, fowl and ducks give us eggs and
Answer: Herbivore: Cow, butterfly meat.
Carnivore: Lion, tiger, spider, house lizard * Fish provides us meat.
Omnivore: Human beings, crow, rat * Bees provide us honey.
11: Why should we not eat unknown plants? 17. What are the two main sources of food?
Answer: We should not eat unknown plants as they Answer: The two main sources of food are:
can be poisonous and harm us.
* Plants: We get fruits, vegetables, pulses, etc., from
plants.
12: What are the ingredients? * Animals: We get milk, eggs, meat, etc., from
Answer: Ingredients are the raw materials required animals.
for preparing a dish.
18. Name two sugar producing plants.
13: What are three categories of animals according to Answer: The two sugar producing plants are:
their eating habits?
* Sugarcane.
Answer: Animals can be classified according to their
eating habits as: * Sugar beet.
19. Write the names of the plants that provide us: * Roots. • Stem
* Vegetables * Fruits * Leaves • Flowers
* Cereals or grains * Pulses * Fruits • Seeds
* Oil or fat. * Spices
Answer: Various types of food given by plants are as
follows:
23. Define sprouted seeds.
* Vegetables: Tomato, cabbage, spinach, potato, etc.
Answer: The germinating seeds at the initial stage
* Fruits: Banana, grapes, apple, etc. when a white structure grows out from the seed
(radicle) are called sprouted seeds.
* Cereals or grains: Rice, wheat, barley, ragi, etc.
* Pulses: Gram, pea, beans, etc.
24. It is said that man gets energy from sun indirectly.
* Oil or fat: Mustard, groundnut, sunflower, etc. How?
Answer: Man eats either plants or herbivorous
20. What is honey? What is its importance? animals, which feed on plants. Plants in turn prepare
the food only when they get energy from the Sun.
Answer: A sweet substance (liquid) prepared by bees Therefore, indirectly man gets energy from Sun.
from the nectar, i.e., sweet juice collected from
flowers, is called honey.
Honey consists of water, sugar, minerals and 25. Is eating excess of food correct? Give reason to
enzymes. It is easily digestible, and used in medicines support your answer.
as an antiseptic (which destroys the growth of Answer: No, because eating excess food can harm our
microorganisms). body as it is not digested easily.
21. From where does honey come? How is it 26. Fish-eating is more common in the states of West
produced and collected? Bengal and Odisha than in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
Answer: We get honey from honey bees. Why?
Production of honey: Honey bees develop their nests Answer: Food habit is affected by production and
called hives on tall trees and buildings. Bee workers supply. Since West Bengal and Odisha are coastal
collect nectar from flowers and store in container. The areas, fish is abundantly available here but not in
honey bees are also reared in artificial hives. Punjab and Uttar Pradesh as these are not coastal
areas.
Extraction of honey: Honey is extracted from bee
hives either manually or with the of an artificial help
extractor.
Long Answer Question
1. Explain the terms:
22. Which parts of a plant are eaten as food?
(i) Herbivores,
Answer: The following parts of a plant are eaten as
food: (ii) Carnivores and
(iii) Omnivores.
Answer: (i) Herbivores: Animals which eat only the 5. One day you were busy from morning to evening.
plants or the plant products like fruits, flowers, seeds, You couldn’t have your lunch. How did you feel?
nectar, etc., are called herbivores. For example, deer, Elaborate your experience.
cow, rat, etc.
Answer: One day because of heavy load of work
(ii) Carnivores: Animals which eat other animals are during the day, I could not have my lunch and at the
called carnivores. For example, tiger, lion, etc. end of the day, I felt very tired, and exhausted. I was
too weak to do work. The hunger was in alarming
(iii) Omnivores: Animals which eat both plants and condition.
their products as well as other animals are called
omnivores. For example, human beings, cat, crow,
etc.
6. Suppose one of your friends had only one chapati,
some rice and one bowl of pulses for his daily meal.
Do you think that by eating such meal he can work
2. What do you know about vegetarian and non- and play whole day?
vegetarian habits?
Answer: No, his diet is not complete. This food is not
Answer: Man is omnivorous, i.e., he can feed on both enough to provide sufficient energy required by him.
plants and animals. But due to some religious or He will not be able to work and play for the whole day
traditional reasons some people strictly avoid the because he will soon get tired due to lack of energy.
food containing meat, fish, egg, etc., while some have
no hesitation to have such food stuffs. On this basis,
there are two types of food habits found in our
society: 7. Why is food essential for living organisms? name
some variety of food items we eat.
* Vegetarian – people who do not eat meat, fish, egg,
etc. Answer: Food is essential for living organisms
because it provides energy to carry out various life
* Non-vegetarian – people who eat meat, fish, egg, functions. It helps in the growth and repair of cells. It
etc. protects the body from various diseases and keep the
body fit. Generally, we eat rice, chapati, dal,
vegetables, paneer, egg, milk, ghee etc.
3. Define Scavengers, Parasites with examples.
Answer: Scavengers: Some carnivores and omnivores 8. What do you mean by sources of food?
eat dead animals. They help in cleaning our
surroundings. For example: crow, jackel, hyena, etc. Answer: Food is essential for all living organisms.
Food contains many ingredients which are required by
Parasites: These are some very small animals which our body for growth and development. Generally, as
live on or inside other animals and get their food from an omnivore, we have two sources of food to eat.
them. For example: fleas, leeches, mosquitoes, bed- Such as Plant sources and Animal sources.
bugs, etc.
9. Write down some plants and animals source of
4. What are known as ‘energy rich food’? food?
Answer: Cereals are known as ‘energy rich food’. For
example: rice, wheat, jowar, maize, etc.
Answer: There are food items like paddy, wheat, - Examples: Lions, tigers, eagles.
vegetables, pulses, fruits and such others, which come
from plant sources. And some food items like milk, - Teeth Adaptation: Sharp, pointed teeth (canines)
eggs, meat, chicken, fish, prawns, beef, pork and such for tearing flesh.
others, which come from animal sources. - Digestive System: Shorter and simpler because
meat is easier to digest.
10. Write any five edible parts of plants with example.
Answer: Almost all parts of the plants such as leaves, 3. Omnivores:
stems, roots, fruits, and seeds are - Diet: Both plant and animal-based foods. -
considered to be edible parts: Examples: Humans, bears, pigs.
(i) Roots: Carrot, turnip, radish and beetroot. - Teeth Adaptation: Combination of sharp teeth for
tearing and flat teeth for grinding.
(ii) Stem: Coriander, sugarcane, potato and ginger.
- Digestive System: Intermediate between
(iii) Leaves: Spinach, cabbage, curry leaves, Onion is a herbivores and carnivores, adaptable to various food
form of leaf which is types.
underground. These dietary distinctions influence not only their
physical traits but also their role in the ecosystem.
(iv) Flowers: Cauliflower, pumpkin and roses are also
edible.
(v) Fruits: Mango, guava, orange, apple, pear, grapes, 12. Why scavengers are important for environment?
banana etc. Almonds, cashew
Answer: Scavengers are the animals that feed on
nuts are used as nuts. dead, injured or decaying animals. They clean the
earth of organic garbage. Many types of worms,
insects, vulture, crow are scavengers, they
11. Differentiate between herbivore, carnivore and decompose the dead and decaying plants and animals
omnivores. and make the environment free from germs.
Answer: The primary difference between herbivores,
carnivores, and omnivores lies in their dietary habits: 13. Why food is important for humans?
1. Herbivores Answer: Food is important because:
- Diet: Plant-based foods like leaves, fruits, seeds, i. All living things require food for their survival.
and grass. -Examples : Cows, deer, elephants.
ii. Food acts as a fuel and provides energy to work and
- Teeth Adaptation: Broad, flat teeth for grinding play.
plant material.
iii. It is essential for growth, repair, wear and tear of
- Digestive System : Often more complex, with our cells.
longer digestive tracts to break down tough plant
fibers. iv. It protects us from different kinds of diseases and
keeps us healthy.
2. Carnivores:
- Diet: Meat (other animals).