NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 7 Getting to Know Plants
NCERT solutions for class 6 science chapter 7 getting to know plants-Exercises
Question: 1(a) Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
Stem absorbs water and minerals from the soil.
Answer: (a) Roots absorb water and minerals from the soil.
Question: 1(b) Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
Leaves hold the plant upright.
Answer: (b) Stem hold the plant upright.
Question:1(c) Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
Roots conduct water to the leaves.
Answer: (c) Stem conducts water to the leaves.
Question: 1(d) Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
The number of petals and stamens in a flower is always equal.
Answer: (d) The number of petals and stamens in a flower may be equal or unequal depending on the flower.
Question: 1(e) Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
If the sepals of a flower are joined together, its petals are also joined together.
Answer: (e) If the sepals of a flower are joined together, its petals are separated and not joined together.
Question:1(f) Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
If the petals of a flower are joined together, then the pistil is joined to the petal.
Answer: If the petals of a flower are joined together, then the pistil may or may not joined to the petal.
Question: 2 Draw (a) a leaf, (b) a taproot and (c) a flower, you have studied for Table 7.3.
Answer: (a) a leaf
(b) a taproot
(c) a flower
Question: 3 Can you find a plant in your house or in your neighborhood, which has a long but weak stem? Write its name. In which category will you place it?
Answer: Yes, there is a plant known as Lauki or Gaurd which has long but weak stem and takes support to grow. It is in creepers category.
Question: 4 What is the function of a stem?
Answer: The function of stem is:
To help in upward movement (conduction) of water.
The water and minerals go to leaves and other plant parts attached to the stem.
Question: 5 Which of the following leaves have reticulate venation?
Wheat, tulsi, maize, grass, coriander (dhania), China rose
Answer: Leaves which have reticulate venation are:
Tulsi, coriander (dhania) and China rose.
Question: 6 If a plant has fibrous root, what type of venation do its leaves have?
Answer: If a plant has fibrous root, then its leaves must have parallel venation.
Question: 7 If a plant has leaves with reticulate venation, what kind of roots will it have?
Answer: If a plant has leaves with reticulate venation, then its roots must look like taproot.
Question: 8 Is it possible for you to find out whether a plant has taproot or fibrous roots by looking at the impression of its leaf on a sheet of paper?
Answer: Yes, it is possible to find whether a plant has taproot or fibrous roots by looking at the impression of its leaf on a sheet of paper:
Put a leaf under a white sheet of paper or a sheet in your notebook.
Hold your pencil tip sideways and rub it on the portion of the paper having the leaf below it.
You will get an impression with some lines in it.
Question: 9 What are the parts of a flower.
Answer: The parts of a flower are:
Petals and Sepals.
Stamens, pistils, anthers.
Question: 10 From the following plants, which of them have flowers?
Grass, maize, wheat, chilli, tomato, tulsi, peepal, shisham, banyan, mango, jamun, guava, pomegranate, papaya, banana, lemon, sugarcane, potato, groundnut
Answer: These are the following plants which have flowers are:
Chilli, tomato, tulsi, mango, jamun, guava, pomegranate, papaya, banana, lemon.
Question: 11 Name the part of plant which produces food. Name the process.
Answer:
Leave is the part of plant which produces the food for plant, by the process called photosynthesis.
Question: 12 In which part of a flower, you will find the ovary?
Answer: Ovary is found in the innermost part of flower called pistil.
Question: 13 Name two plants in which one has joined sepals and the other has separate sepals.
Answer: These two plants are given below, in which one has:
Jointed sepals - cotton and tomato.
Separate sepals - mustard and lotus.
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