Food-Where does it Come From

CBSE Class–VI Subject Science

NCERT Solutions
(CHAPTER-01)
FOOD: WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

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. We know that different organisms eat different kind of food. This is because of the difference in their structure, requirements, habitats etc.,

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

Answer:

(a) Apple tree	Fruit
(b) Wheat plant	Seed
(c) Potato plant	Stem
(d) Beetroot plant	Root
(e) Spinach	Leaves

Question 3. Match the items given in column A with that in column B.

Column A	Column B
Milk, curd, paneer, ghee	Eat other animals
Spinach, cauliflower, carrot	Eat plants and plant products.
Lion and tiger	Are vegetables
Herbivores	Are all animal products.

Answer:

Column A	Column B
Milk, curd, paneer, ghee	Are all animal products.
Spinach, cauliflower, carrot	Are vegetables
Lion and tiger	Eat other animals
Herbivores	Eat 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 plants 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 plants products and so, is called herbivores.
(c) Parrot eats only plant products.
(d) The milk that we drink, which comes

Food-Where does it Come From - Solutions