CHAPTER 1

Food and its Sources:

Q 1. What do arrows in a food chain mean?
Ans: Essentially, it means that organisms must eat other organisms. ... Food energy flows from one
organism to another. Arrows are used to show the feeding relationship between the animals. The
arrow points from the organism being eaten to the organism that eats it.
Q 2. Why is food essential for living organisms?
Ans: Organisms need to take food because organisms need energy to perform any activity or
function and they get energy from food. Organisms also need carbohydrate, vitamins, and minerals
and other nutrients to gain energy and proteins to live and to continue metabolism.
Q 3. Where do parasites obtain their food from?
Ans: The parasite obtains nutrition directly from the body of the host. The parasites derive their
nourishment from their host. This symbiotic interaction is often described as harmful to the host.
Parasites are dependent on their host for survival; host provides nutrition and protection for the
parasite.
Q 4. How do honey bees make honey?
Ans: In spring season, most flowers are found to be blooming. Honeybee collects nectar from these
flowers using its long tube like tongues. This nectar remain inside the honey bee stomach for some
time where it gets mixed with bee's protein & enzymes. As a result nectar finally gets converted to
honey. This honey is released and accumulated by bee in its comb till it gets fully filled with it.
Q 5. What is food chain?
Ans: A food chain is a linear sequence of organisms in which each organism is eaten by the next
member in the sequence. This interaction among organisms involves the transfer of energy from
one organism to another.