A. Answer the following questions in short:
1. Do you find that all living beings need the same kind of food?
2. Name five plants and their parts that we eat.
3. What are the main functions of food?
4. What are the main sources of food?
5. Does everyone around you get enough food to eat? If not, Why?
6. What are the ways we can think of the avoid was tage of food?
B. Match The Following:
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Milk, curd, paneer, ghee | a. eat other animals |
| 2. Spinach, cauliflower, carrot | b. eat plants and plant products |
| 3. Lions and tigers | c. are vegetables |
| 4. Herbivores | d. are all animal products |
C. Fill In The Blanks With The Words Given:
herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore
1. Tiger is a …………. because it eats only meat.
2. Deer eats only plant products and so, is called ………….. .
3. Parrot eats only ……………. products.
4. The …………… that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes and goats is an animal product.
5. We get sugar from ………………… .
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D. Tick (œ“) the Correct Option:
1. Animals provide us with:
(a) meat
(b) milk
(c) eggs
(d) all of these
2. Radishes and carrots are:
(a) stems
(b) leaves
(c) flowers
(d) roots
3. Rice; roti, samber and vegetables are examples of:
(a) ingredients
(b) food
(c) animal products as food
(d) all of these
4. Which part of cabbage is used as food?
(a) Leaves
(b) Stems
(c) Roots
(d) Fruits
5. Vultures and crows are:
(a) Scavengers
(b) Carnivores
(c) Omnivores
(d) Herbivores
6. What are heterotrophs?
(a) Plants
(b) Animals
(c) Both animals & plants
(d) None of these
E. State True or False:
1. Potato and onion are modified stems which grow below the ground. …………….
2. Plants are also called consumers. ……………….
3. All green plants make their food in leaves. ……………..
4. Plants are herbivores. ………………..
5. Deer are scavengers. ……………….
6. Animals provide us milk, meat, and wool. …………………
F. State Fill in the blanks in the Table and add more examples to the list:
Ingredients use to prepare food items and their sources:
G. From all the food items you have listed in the Table under question G, choose those items whose ingredients are obtained from plants. Which part of a plant? Identify these and list the food items and plant parts as shown in the following table:
Plant parts as Food:
H. Several animals are listed in the following Table. F some of them, the type of food they eat is also given. Fill in the blanks in the Table:
Animals and their Food:
| Name of the animal | Food the animal eats |
| Buffalo | Grass, oilcake, hay, grains |
| Cat | Small animals, birds, milk |
| Rat | |
| Lion | |
| Tiger | |
| Spider | |
| House lizard | |
| Cow | |
| Human beings | |
| Butterfly | |
| Crow | |
| Others |
I. Prepare a table and enter the animals of the group separately in the three columns, as shown:
J. Label the different parts of the plant given below in the figure:
K. Make a list (with pictures, when possible) of food items generally taken by people of different regions of India. Place these on a large outline map of India to display in your classroom.