ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL, AHMEDNAGAR

Question Bank (2020-21)

GRADE: VI SUBJECT: SCIENCE

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Chapter 1: Food: Where does it come From

Q1. Multiple Choice Questions:
a) Which of the following are Omnivores?
i) Goat and Human beings
i) Human beings and Cockroach
iii) Cockroach and Eagle
iv) Human beings and Bear

b) Can you suggest the example of spices which we get from plants?Q5Can

i) Cinnamon, Cardamom

ii) Clove, Chili

iii) Pepper, cumin
iv) All the above

c) What are not the ingredients of preparing Chicken curry?

i) Chicken
ii) spice
iii) oil
iv) Pumpkin

d) Materials required to prepare a food item are called

i) Nutrients
ii) Ingredients
iii) Nourishments
iv) Minerals

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e) Which of the following is not a plant whose root is edible?
i) carrot
ii) radish
iii) turnip
iv) potato

f) The part of a banana plant not used as food is ______

i) flower
ii) fruit
iii) stem
iv) root

g) Animals which eat both animals flesh as well as plants are called ______
i) Carnivores
ii) Herbivores
iii) Omnivores
iv) None of these

h) Edible part in Spinach is _______

i)Stem
ii)Roots
iii)Leaf
iv)Seeds

i) Read each set of terms and identify the odd set.

i) Cow, milk, butter
ii) Hen, meat, egg
iii) Goat, milk, meat
iv) Plant, vegetable, butter milk

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 j) Which of the following is true?
i) All food items require the same ingredients.
ii) Some ingredients are common in different food items.
iii) All food items require more than two ingredients.
iv) We can add any ingredient to make food.

Q2. 1 Mark questions:

1. What do you mean by food habit?
2. What do you understand with the term ingredients.
3. Explain the importance of food for living organisms.
4, Why are plants called producers of food?
5. We get more varieties of food from plants or animals?
6. What are the sources of rice and wheat?
7. Write the food habits of the people in Tamil Nadu and Odisha?
8. What are the two main sources of food?
9. Write the names of the plants that provide us:

a) Vegetables
b) Fruits
c) Cereals or grains
d) Pulses
e) Oil or fat.

10. Name four plants who have two edible parts.

Q3. 3 Marks questions:

1. Why do organisms need food? Write two reasons
2. What are spices? Name the common spices used by us in our food?
3. Do humans eat same kind of food? If ‘No’ then why?
4. In what way is a scavenger useful to the environment?
5. What is a food chain? Explain with an example.

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6. You would have observed the teeth of carnivores are different from those of
herbivores? Why?
7. Humans eat both plants and animals. Which teeth in humans are suitable for
tearing flesh?
8. In 1965, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri gave a simple slogan to the people
of India – Jai Jawan Jai Kisan (Hail the farmer, hail the soldier). What value
does this slogan show?
9. What are edible parts? Give examples.
10. What are parasites? Explain giving two examples.

Q4. 5 marks questions:

1. There are different ways of obtaining food ingredients from nature. Explain how
we obtain the following food ingredients:
a) Honey b) Salt
2. Wild animal like Tiger, Wolf, Lion and Leopard do not eat plants. Does this
mean that they can survive without plants? Can you provide a suitable
explanation?

3. Does everyone around you get enough food to eat? Is eating excess of food
correct? Give reason to support your answer.

4. There are people around you who are pure vegetarian and non – vegetarian.
What do you know about vegetarian and non-vegetarian habits?
5. Suppose one of your friends had only one chapati, some rice and one bowl of
pulses for his daily meal. Do you think that by eating such meal he can work
and play whole day? Give a list of energy rich food for your friend?

Q5. Assertion and Reason Questions:

Directions for Assertion and Reason questions:
These questions consist of two statements each, printed as Assertion and Reason.
While answering these questions you are required to choose any one of the
following four responses.
A. If both Assertion and Reason are True and the Reason is correct explanation
of Assertion.

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 B. If both Assertion and Reason are True but Reason is not a correct
explanation of the Assertion.
C. If Assertion is True but the Reason is False.
D. If both Assertion and Reason are False.

1. Assertion: Sprouting should not be done before consuming the grains.

Reason: Sprouting kills many vital vitamins.

2. Assertion: Salt is an ingredient used to cook food at higher altitudes.

Reason: Temperature is lower at higher altitudes.

3. Assertion: Unpolished rice should be eaten.

Reason: Polished rice lacks Vitamin B.

4. Assertion: Seeds should be treated with fungicide solution.

Reason: Seeds do not germinate, unless treated with fungicide solution.

5. Assertion: Uttar Pradesh is termed as the 'Sugar Bowl' of India.

Reason: Uttar Pradesh is the leading producer of sugarcane.
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