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Food For Plants

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Which of the following is NOT required by a plant for the preparation of its food?

  1. Water

  2. Mineral salts

  3. Carbohydrate

  4. Sun light

  5. Carbon dioxide


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Carbohydrate is a by-product of food prepared by the plants. It is not required by the plants to produce food.

Mode of taking food by an organism and its utilization by the body is known as ___________________.

  1. Nutrition

  2. Feeding

  3. Eating

  4. Food intake

  5. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Mode of taking food by an organism and its utilization by the body is known as Nutrition.

Which part of a plant is known as the 'food factories of plants'?

  1. Fruit

  2. Stem

  3. Root

  4. Leaves

  5. Seed


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Leaves are known as the 'food factories of plants' because the food making process in the plants, mainly occurs in the leaves.

Which of the following structures help the leaves to get carbon dioxide?

  1. Stomata

  2. Leaf margins

  3. Leaf stalk

  4. Leaf veins

  5. Lighter side of leaf


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Stomata helps the leaves to intake carbon dioxide. These are tiny pores present over the leaf surface.

Food cannot be generally prepared in yellow leaves. This occurs due to lack of which substance in yellow leaves?(Hint- the substance is present in green leaves)

  1. Carbohydrate

  2. Vitamin

  3. Protein

  4. Chlorophyll

  5. Water


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Chlorophyll is a green coloured pigment that is present in green leaves and absent in yellow leaves. It helps to make food in the auto-trophic plants.

During the process of Photosynthesis, which of the following gas is generally evolved?

  1. Oxygen

  2. Carbon dioxide

  3. Nitrogen

  4. Hydrogen

  5. None of thse


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

During the process of Photosynthesis, oxygen is evolved.

The mode of nutrition in which living things make food themselves from simple substances is called Autotrophic nutrition. What is the meaning of 'TROPH'?

  1. Nutrition

  2. Nourishment

  3. Eating

  4. Intake

  5. Feeding


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Auto means self and Troph means nourishment. Hence,  autotrophs are the living things that make food themselves from simple substances.

Carbohydrates get converted into ___________.

  1. fat

  2. water

  3. mineral salt

  4. starch or sugar

  5. all of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Carbohydrates get converted into starch or sugar.

People are advised not to sleep under trees during night. The reason is that the trees give ______ during night.

  1. oxygen

  2. carbon dioxide

  3. nitrogen

  4. hydrogen

  5. ammonia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

People are advised not to sleep under trees during night. The reason is that, the trees give carbon dioxide during night.

The phenomenon of preparation of food by plants is known as Photosynthesis. It is due to the requirement of __________.

  1. carbon dioxide

  2. minerals

  3. chlorophyll

  4. water

  5. sunlight


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

The phenomenon of preparation of food by plants is known as Photosynthesis. It is due to the requirement of sunlight. Photo means light and synthesis means combine.

The sap is carried from the leaves to the stem through _____________.

  1. leaf base

  2. leaf margins

  3. veins

  4. stomata

  5. lenticles


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The sap is carried from the leaves to the stem through veins.

The food of the plant is in the form of sweet juice, known as _________.

  1. syrup

  2. sap

  3. milk

  4. plant juice

  5. sweet juice


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The food of the plant is in the form of sweet juice, known as sap.

Plants make their food in the form of _________.

  1. calcium

  2. salts

  3. vitamins

  4. proteins

  5. carbohydrates


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Plants make their food in the form of carbohydrates.

Which of the following plants have chlorophyll in the stems?

  1. Cactus

  2. Papaya

  3. Orange

  4. Neem

  5. Mango


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Cactus plants have chlorophyll in the stems.

Which of the following plants have coloured leaves?

  1. Mango

  2. Papaya

  3. Banana

  4. Croton

  5. Guava


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Croton has coloured leaves.

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