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Food : Where Does It Comes From - 1

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Which of the following statements justifies that food is vital for living beings?

  1. Food regulates only our body functions.

  2. Food protects us from diseases only.

  3. Food maintains our life and growth.

  4. A single food item can provide proper nutrition.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Food is vital for living beings as it helps in the maintenance of the body by protecting us from diseases and regulating our body functions, by providing proper nutrition. It also helps the organisms in their proper growth. So, statement given in option (3), saying that food maintains our life and growth, is correct. 

Why should we eat cooked food?

  1. Cooked food is easy to digest.

  2. Cooking enriches the food with nutrients.

  3. Cooked food contains essential vitamins.

  4. Cooked food can be preserved for a long time.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Cooking makes the components of the food simpler and easily digestible by the body. Also, cooking of food kills various germs so, the food can be preserved for long. 

Which of the following pairs of food items is not a part of salad?

  1. Radish and carrot

  2. Cucumber and onion

  3. Cabbage and beetroot

  4. Bitter gourd and pumpkin


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Radish, carrot, cucumber, onion, cabbage and beetroot are fibrous food items, which can be eaten raw as salad. Bitter gourd and pumpkin are not a part of salad. 

From which part of a sugarcane plant is sugar extracted?

  1. Seed

  2. Stem

  3. Root

  4. Fruit


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Different parts of different plants are used to obtain food products, such as seeds of mustard give oil, stem of sugarcane is processed to get sugar, leaves of mint and spinach are used directly. 

Which of the following food items is prepared using plant products only?

  1. Ghee

  2. Idli

  3. Kheer

  4. Chicken curry


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Ghee is obtained by processing of milk and milk is an animal product. Idli is made by using rice, urad dal, salt and water. Rice and urad dal are the products obtained from plants. Kheer requires milk, which is again an animal product. Chicken curry is made from chicken, which is also an animal source. Thus, it is idli only, which is prepared by using plant products. 

Which of the following options is a food for buffaloes?

  1. Oil cake

  2. Frog

  3. Grasshopper

  4. Lizard


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Buffalo is a milk yielding animal which feeds on plant products like grasses, oil cakes, hay, grains, etc. 

From the following options, select the one which is matched incorrectly.

  1. Carrot : Root

  2. Tomato : Fruit

  3. Pulses : Fruit

  4. Banana : Fruit


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Carrot is the plant root which is used as food. Tomato and banana are the fruits of the plants. Pulses are the seeds of the plants. 

What is the source from which honey is prepared?

  1. Nectar of flowers

  2. Stomach of bees

  3. Juice of sugarcane

  4. Petals of flowers


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Honey is prepared by the honey bees. When a honey bee sits on a flower, it sucks the nectar of the flower and converts it to honey. 

Which of the following options is incorrect?

  1. Animals that eat flesh are called carnivores.

  2. Animals that eat plants are called herbivores.

  3. Cat, human and crow are called omnivores.

  4. Hen and sheep are egg yielding animals.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Animals, according to their dietary habits, are of three types: flesh eating called carnivores, plant eating called herbivores, and both plant and flesh eating called omnivores. So, statements given in options (1) - (3) are correct. Hen is though a source of eggs but sheep is a wool yielding animal and thus, option (4) is incorrect. 

What are the edible parts of a mustard plant?

  1. Seeds and leaves

  2. Leaves and stem

  3. Roots and seeds

  4. Seeds and stem


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The seeds of mustard plants give oil and their leaves are used as a vegetable. So, the seeds and the leaves of a mustard plant are edible. 

Which of the following plants has edible roots?

  1. Turnip

  2. Cucumber

  3. Tomato

  4. Brinjal


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Cucumber, tomato and brinjal are fruits, used as food, whereas it is the roots of the turnip plant which are used as food. 

Squirrel, parrot and deer are called herbivores because they are

  1. plant eaters

  2. insect eaters

  3. flesh eaters

  4. fish eaters


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Animals according to their dietary habits are of three types; flesh eating are called carnivores, plant eating are called herbivores and both plant and flesh eating are called omnivores. 

What kind of food items are curd, cheese and ghee?

  1. Plant products

  2. Animal products

  3. Milk products

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

All are said to be milk products. 

Hen, pig, sheep, goat and fish are grouped as ________ animals.

  1. meat yielding

  2. milk yielding

  3. egg yielding

  4. wool yielding


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The meat obtained from hen, pig, sheep, goat and fish is used as food. So, these animals are known as meat yielding animals. 

Plants are the basic source of

  1. water

  2. carbon dioxide

  3. food

  4. manure


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Plants are autotrophs. They can make their own food from inorganic raw materials like water and carbon dioxide obtained from their surroundings. Plants act as the source of food for all the birds and animals, including humans. 

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