Class 6 Science - Chapter Food: Where Does It Come From? NCERT Solutions | Match the items given in Column A with t

Do you find that all living beings need the same kind of food?

Name five plants and their parts that we eat.

Fill up the blanks with the words given:
herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore

(a) Tiger is a ____________________ because it eats only meat.
(b) Deer eats only plant products and so, is called ______________.
(c) Parrot eats only _________________ products.
(d) The ________________ that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes and goats is an animal product.
(e) We get sugar from ___________________.

(a) Which kind of garbage is not converted into compost by the redworms?
(b) Have you seen any other organism besides redworms, in your pit? If yes, try to find out their names. Draw pictures of these.

Rearrange the boxes given below to make a sentence that helps us understand opaque objects.

To walk through a waterlogged area, you usually shorten the length of your dress by folding it. Can this change be reversed?

Name the major nutrients in our food.

Classify the following fibres as natural or synthetic:
nylon, wool, cotton, silk, polyester, jute

Name five objects which can be made from wood.

Why do we need to separate different components of a mixture? Give two examples.

Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
(a) Stem absorbs water and minerals from the soil.
(b) Leaves hold the plant upright.
(c) Roots conduct water to the leaves.
(d) The number of petals and sepals in a flower is always equal.
(e) If the sepals of a flower are joined together, its petals are also joined together.
(f) If the petals of a flower are joined together, then the pistil is joined to the petal.

Fill in the blanks:
(a) Joints of the bones help in the ——————— of the body.
(b) A combination of bones and cartilages forms the _______ of the body.
(c) The bones at the elbow are joined by a ______________________ joint.
(d) The contraction of the _____________ pulls the bones during movement.

What is a habitat?

Why could you not use an elastic measuring tape to measure distance? What would be some of the problems you would meet in telling someone about a distance you measured with an elastic tape?

Where are poles of a bar magnet located?

Fill in the blanks in the following
(i) Artificial magnets are made in different shapes such as __________, __________ and ____________.
(ii) The Materials which are attracted towards a magnet are called________.
(iii) Paper is not a ______ material.
(iv) In olden days, sailors used to find direction by suspending a piece of ___________.
(v) A magnet always has __________ poles.

What is the function of a stem in a plant?

Can you think of creating a shape that would give a circular shadow if held in one way and a rectangular shadow if held in another way?

State whether the following statements are true or false
(i) A cylindrical magnet has only one pole.
(ii) Artificial magnets were discovered in Greece.
(iii) Similar poles of a magnet repel each other.
(iv) Maximum iron filings stick in the middle of a bar magnet when it is brought near them.
(v) Bar magnets always point towards North-South direction.
(vi) A compass can be used to find East-West direction at any place.
(vii) Rubber is a magnetic material.

Suppose you want to dry your school uniform quickly. Would spreading it near an anghiti or heater help? If yes, how?

Give two examples each, of modes of transport used on land, water and air.

When does a drought occur?

A thick coating of a paste of Plaster of Paris (POP) is applied over the bandage on a fractured bone. It becomes hard on drying to keep the fractured bone immobilised. Can the change in POP be reversed?