NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 1 Food: Where Does It Come From?
NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 1: Solved Exercise Questions
Q1. Do you find that all living beings need the same kind of food?
Answer: No, all living beings do not eat the same kind of food. Some animals eat only plants products they are called herbivores, some animals eat only other animals products called carnivores and some eat both of them they are called omnivores.
Q2. Name five plants and their parts that we eat.
Answer: Here are the name of five plants and their parts that we eat.
1. Corn or peas we are eating ( seeds).
2. Carrot or radish we are eating ( roots).
3. Cauliflower and broccoli plants produce flowers we like to eat.
4. The root of the beet plant is what most people like to eat.
5. We eat leaves of spinach.
Q3. Match the items given in Column A with that in Column B
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Column A |
Column B |
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Milk, curd, paneer, ghee, |
eat other animals |
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Spinach, cauliflower, carrot |
eat plants and plant products |
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Lions and tigers |
are vegetables |
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Herbivores |
are all animal products |
Answer: Here is the correct match.
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Column A |
Column B with answers |
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Milk, curd, paneer, ghee, |
are all animal products |
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Spinach, cauliflower, carrot |
are vegetables |
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Lions and tigers |
eat other animals |
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Herbivores |
eat plants and plant products |
Q4. Fill up the blanks with the words given:
herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore
(a) Tiger is a ____________________ because it eats only meat.
Answer: Tiger is a carnivore because it eats only meat.
Q5. Fill up the blanks with the words given: herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore
(b) Deer eats only plant products and so, is called ______________.
Answer: Deer eats only plant products and so, is called herbivores.
Q6. Fill up the blanks with the words given: herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore
(c) Parrot eats only _________________ products.
Answer: Parrot eats only plant products.
Q7. Fill up the blanks with the words given: herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore
(d) The ________________ that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes and goats is an animal product.
Answer: The milk that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes and goats is an animal product.
Q8. Fill up the blanks with the words given: herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore
(e) We get sugar from ___________________.
Answer: We get sugar from sugarcane .
Q9. Fill up the blanks with the words given:
herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore
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(a) Tiger is a _______________ because it eats only meat.
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(b) Deer eats only plant products and so, is called ______________.
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(c) Parrot eats only _______________ products.
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(d) The ________________ that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes and goats is an animal product.
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(e) We get sugar from ________________.
Answer:
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(a) Tiger is a carnivore because it eats only meat.
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(b) Deer eats only plant products and so, is called herbivores .
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(c) Parrot eats only plant_ products.
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(d) The milk that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes, and goats is an animal product.
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(e) We get sugar from sugarcane .
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- HC Verma Part 1
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- RS Aggarwal Class 10
- Lakhmir Singh Class 9
- Lakhmir Singh Class 10
