Food: Where Does It Come From? quiz

The edible part of a potato plant is its:

Which of these is an edible root?

Which animal is a herbivore?

Bees collect a sweet juice from flowers called:

An omnivore eats:

Cauliflower is the edible:

Which of the following is obtained from animals?

Which plant gives both edible leaves and seeds?

A lion is a:

Wheat and rice are edible:

Name two edible stems and two edible leaves. (2 marks)

List the ingredients of a vegetable sandwich. (2 marks)

Name two animals that give us milk. (2 marks)

Why should we not waste food? (2 marks)

Name two fruits eaten as vegetables. (2 marks)

What do you understand by animal products? Give two examples. (2 marks)

Why are humans called omnivores? (2 marks)

Name two seeds that are eaten as sprouts. (2 marks)

Name two dishes made from milk. (2 marks)

How is a carnivore indirectly dependent on plants? (2 marks)

A poultry farm has 500 hens. If 80 percent of the hens lay one egg each per day, how many eggs are collected per day and in 30 days? (3 marks)

A family uses 2 litres of milk every day. If milk costs Rs 56 per litre, find the monthly expense on milk for a 30-day month. (3 marks)

In a class survey of 40 students, 18 eat only vegetarian food, 20 eat both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food and the rest eat mostly eggs with vegetables. How many eat mostly eggs with vegetables? What percentage are vegetarian? (3 marks)

A farmer grows mustard on 2 acres. Each acre gives 400 kg of seeds. If 1 kg of seeds gives about 0.35 litres of oil, how much oil can be obtained? (3 marks)

Count the edible plant parts in this list and classify them: carrot, brinjal, spinach, cauliflower, ginger, beetroot, cabbage, peas. How many are roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds? (3 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. Meena soaked some moong seeds in water overnight. The next morning she drained the water and wrapped the seeds in a wet cloth. After a day, small white structures had grown out of the seeds. (i) What are these white structures called? (ii) Why were the seeds kept wet? (iii) Why are sprouts considered healthy food? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. In a village, a bee-keeper keeps wooden boxes near a mustard field. During flowering season, the bees collect nectar from mustard flowers. The bee-keeper later extracts honey from the boxes. (i) What do bees collect from flowers? (ii) Where do bees store honey? (iii) How does keeping boxes near fields help both the farmer and the bee-keeper? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. At a zoo, Rahul saw a deer eating grass, a tiger eating meat, and a bear eating fruits, honey and fish. (i) Classify the three animals by their food habits. (ii) Which animal depends directly on plants? (iii) Which animal has the widest choice of food? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. Priya helped her mother prepare a meal of rice, dal, aloo gobi and curd. She noted down where each ingredient came from. (i) Name the plant parts used in aloo gobi. (ii) Which ingredient comes from an animal? (iii) Which part of the plant is dal? (5 marks)

Read the passage and answer the questions. People living near the sea in Kerala and Odisha eat a lot of fish and rice, while people in Rajasthan eat more millets like bajra. (i) Why do coastal people eat more fish? (ii) Why is bajra grown in Rajasthan? (iii) What does this tell us about food habits and local conditions? (5 marks)

Draw a labelled diagram of a plant and list two examples of food from each part: root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit and seed. Explain why plants are the main source of our food. (6 marks)

Explain the different foods we get from animals, with examples: milk, eggs, meat, fish and honey. Draw a chart showing the animal and the food obtained, and explain how honey is made by bees. (6 marks)

Describe an activity to grow sprouts from seeds. Draw diagrams of the seeds before soaking, after soaking and after sprouting. State two benefits of eating sprouts. (6 marks)

Classify animals into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores with three examples each. Draw a food chain involving a plant, a herbivore and a carnivore, and explain why carnivores depend on plants indirectly. (6 marks)

Choose two dishes from different regions of India. List their ingredients, identify the source (plant or animal part) of each ingredient, and draw a flowchart for one ingredient from farm to plate. (6 marks)