CBSE- WORKSHEETS –VI BIOLOGY

BIOLOGY

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CONTENTS
SOURCES OF FOOD ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
RECAP ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3
FILL UP / NAME THE FOLLOWING ............................................................................................................................. 4
MATCH THE FOLLOWING .......................................................................................................................................... 5
STATE WHETHER TRUE OR FALSE. CORRECT THE FALSE STATEMENT .................................................................... 6
CIRCLE THE ODD ONE OUT. GIVE REASON FOR YOUR CHOICE .................................................................................. 7
COMPLETE THE ANALOGY ........................................................................................................................................ 8
GIVE DEFINITION ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
SHORT ANSWER QUESTION .................................................................................................................................... 10
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS .................................................................................................................................... 11
HIGH ORDER THINKING QUESTIONS ...................................................................................................................... 13
WRITE TWO EXAMPLES .......................................................................................................................................... 14
GIVE REASON ......................................................................................................................................................... 15
DIFFERENTIATE ...................................................................................................................................................... 17
SOLVE THE CROSSWORD ........................................................................................................................................ 18

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Chapter 1

SOURCES OF FOOD

RECAP
 Food – Food is the fuel of Animals and plants

 Nutrients – The Chemical substance in Food

 Water and salt are two ingredients from earth

 Green plants are producers

 Photosynthesis – process by which green plants produce their own Food

 Edible Roots – Sweet Potato, Carrot, Radish, Beetroot, Turnip

 Edible Stems – Potato, sugarcane, ginger, turmeric

 Edible Leaves – Spinach, mustard, cabbage, lettuce, fenugreek, Corriander

 Edible Flowers – Cauliflower, Broccoli

 Fruits – Apple, mango, banana, papaya

 Seeds – Wheat, Rice, Lentils

 Milch Animals – goat, cow, sheep, camel, buffalo

 Poultry Animals = Chicken, Goose, Duck

 Dairy Products – Milk, cheese, Butter, Cream, Curd

 Seafood – prawns, snail, crab, shrimp

 Honey is made by honey bees from Nectar of Flowers

 Honey Comb - Beehive which contains honey

 Autotrophs – Green plants

 Heterotrophs – Herbivores, Carnivores, omnivores – Also called consumers

 Herbivores – Feed on plant and plant products Eg:- Rabbit, Deer, Cow etc

 Carnivores – Flesh Eating Animals Eg:- lion, tiger, eagle, wolf etc

 Omnivores – Eat both plants and animals Eg:- Human, crow, bear, cockroach etc

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 Scavenger – Consume dead bodies of other animals Eg:- crow, vulture, jackal etc

 Parasites – Small animals depend on other living organism for food. Eg:- mosquito,
leeches, tapeworm, round worm etc

 Decomposers – Organisms feed on decaying plants and animals Eg:- fungi, bacteria

 Food Chain – chain shows who eats whom

 Food chain always start with a producer

 Food chain transfers the energy to the next level

FILL UP / NAME THE FOLLOWING

1. The edible part of Broccoli is ___________________

2. Every Food chain begins from ___________________

3. Honey is produced by _________________ using ___________ from flowers.

4. The organism which prepare their own food is called __________________

5. The sources or our food are ______________ and _____________

6. The chemical substance in food that our body needs is called _________________

7. ______________ is a substance eaten by us for nutrition and living

8. Edible part of sweet potato is ___________________

9. ____________ are also known as producers

10. Animals that eat only plants

11. Animals that feed on both plants and animals

12. Animal that eat flesh of other animals only

13. Sugar is obtained from _______________ plant

14. Edible part of onion is_____________

15. Non-green plant we eat

16. Rearing of Honey bees HOTS

17. Birds which provide meat and egg are called __________

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18. Germinated seeds are called _____________

19. Animals feed on decaying plants

20. Animals which provide us milk are called _________________ animals

21. ___________ is a substance eaten by us for nutrition and living

22. Wheat, Rice, barley, Maize etc are referred to as ______________

23. Sugar is obtained from stem of _____________

24. The chemical substance in food that our body needs is called ____________

25. Scavengers are _______________

MATCH THE FOLLOWING

I. Column A Column B
1. Bear a. Herbivore

2. Lion b. Parasite

3. Deer c. Scavenger

4. Vulture d. Producer

5. Leech e. Carnivore

6. Green plant f. Omnivore

II. Column A Column B

1. Mango a. Stem

2. Spinach b. flower

3. Ginger c. Seed

4. Turnip d. Leaves

5. Rice e. Root

6. Broccoli f. Stem

III. Column A Column B

1. Chicken, goose, duck,emu a. Autotrophs

2. Rice, Salt, water, Spices b. Eat plant and their products

3. Curd, Ghee, Paneer c. Poultry animals

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4. Horse, Rabbit, Parrot d. Animal Products

5. Plants e. Ingredients

STATE WHETHER TRUE OR FALSE. CORRECT THE FALSE STATEMENT

1. We require food to get energy for carrying out various activities of life

2. All organism need food to survive

3. Cockroaches are omnivores

4. Honey is dairy product

5. Cake is made from only one ingredient

6. Different parts of different plants are eaten as food

7. Plants are the only sources food items.

8. Plant part that is eaten in sugarcane is stem

9. Some oil seeds of plants are wheat, rice and maize

10. Bees collect nectar from the root of some plants

11. People from different part of India eat the same food

12. Sprouted seeds give more energy

13. The rearing of honeybees is called sericulture

14. Germinated seeds of moong beans are not edibble

15. Hookworm depends on dead animals for their food

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16. Honeybees convert sugar into honey

17. Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores are all consumers

18. Plants prepare more food than they need

19. All birds are herbivores

20. Chickens are carnivores because human beings eat them

21. Raw food comprises fruits and vegetables such as apple, banana, grapes, cucumber and tomato

CIRCLE THE ODD ONE OUT. GIVE REASON FOR YOUR CHOICE
1. Banana, Idli, Dosa, Vegetable curry

2. carrot, Radish, Sweet potato, Potato

3. Honey, Cheese, Curd, Cream

4. Mustard Seeds, Cotton Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, Ground Nut

5. Spinach, Lettuce, Basil, Asparagus

6. Sesame, Fenugreek, Cinnamon, Rice

7. Roundworm, vulture, Hyena, Jackal

8. Buffalo, Horse, Donkey, Cat

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COMPLETE THE ANALOGY

1. Animals : __________________ :: Plants : Producers

2. Jackal : Scavenger :: Tapeworm : ____________________

3. Dog : Omnivore :: Cow : __________________

4. Ginger : Stem :: Turnip : __________________

5. Rice : Cereal :: cinnamon : _________________

6. Cheese : Diary Products :: Egg : _______________

GIVE DEFINITION
1. Food

2. Nutrition

3. Food Habit

4. Ingredients

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5. Producer

6. Photosynthesis

7. Herbivores

8. Carnivores

9. Omnivores

10. Scavenger

11. Parasite

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12. Food Chain

SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

1. Why do organisms need food?

2. What do u meant by balanced diet?

3. What is honey?

4. Why should we eat cooked food?

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5. Construct some Food Chains with the following organisms (atleast 10)

Grass, wolf,owl, snake, Rat, Apple tree, Eagle, Rabbit, sparrow, peacock, Jackal,
Leopard, Deer, Insects, crow, Hook worm, lion, Jackal

LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS

1. What are the various functions of food?

OR

What is the importance of food for the living organisams?

2. Explain the various sources of food with the help of examples?

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3. How animals are classified according to Food Habits?

4. How honey is made?

5. How are teeth of carnivore different from those of herbivores?

6. Crow is an omnivore as well as a scavenger how?

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7. How are scavengers useful to our environment?

HIGH ORDER THINKING QUESTIONS HOTS

1. All living organisms need food to survive but the type of food eaten by each organism is
different. Justify the statement?

2. Both carnivores and parasite depend on other animals for food. In what way is a carnivore
diferent from parasite?

3. A food chain consists of several organisms. Suppose one of the organism disappears. What
effect can have on the other organisms in the food chain?

OR

Why all animals and plants are essential to maintain the balance in nature?

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4. A food chain consists of several organisms. Suppose one of the organism’s count increased
beyond control. What effect can have on the other organisms in the food chain?

WRITE TWO EXAMPLES

1. Edible leaves

2. Edible flowers

3. Edible Stem

4. Edible Roots

5. Edible Seeds

6. Oil seeds

7. Milch animals

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8. Scavengers

9. Herbivores

10. Omnivores

11. Decomposers

12. Sea Food

13. Poultry Animals

14. Food ingredient not obtained either from plant or animal

GIVE REASON
1. Living organisms require food?

2. Plants are known as producers

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3. Cow possesses flat, grinding teeth known as molars

4. Human beings are omnivores

5. Mosquito doesn’t have a teeth

6. Scavengers are called natural cleaners

7. Food chain is important

8. The decomposers are vital component in nature

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9. Why do producers come as the first step in a food chain always?

10. We should not eat or taste an unknown plants

DIFFERENTIATE
1. Food and Ingredient

2. Autotrophs and heterotrophs

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3. Carnoivore and scavenger

4. Scavengers and Decomposers

SOLVE THE CROSSWORD

ACROSS DOWN

2. Edible Leaf 1. Mosquito is an example of

6. Edible Root 3. Edible flower
7. Chemical substance in food 4. Every food chain should start from
9. Honey is made from 5. Animals eat only meat
10. Green Plants 8. Natural cleaners
11. Animals which feed on plant and plant 12. Edible Stem
products
13.Help to grow and replace worn-out cells
14. Bear is an example of
15. Food ingredient from earth

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