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NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 1 Food : Where Does It Come From

 


Chapter 1 

Food : where does it come from ?

NCERT Solutions.


Q1. Do you find that all living beings need the Same kind of food ?

Solution- No all living beings doesn't need same kind of food.

Q2. Name five plants and their parts that we eat.

Solution-  Five plants and their parts that we eat are:-

Tomato - Fruit

Beans - seed

Carrot - Root

Potato - stem

Spinach - leaves

Q3. Match the items given in column A with those in column B.

Solution-   


Q4. Fill in the blanks with the words given:
Herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore.

a. Tiger is a carnivore  because it eats only meat.
b. Deer eat only plant product and so, is called herbivores
c.  Parrot eats only plant products.
e.  We get sugar from sugarcane.                   

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