Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) कक्षा ६ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Which of the following food items does not provide any nutrient?

Tasty food is not always nutritious and nutritious food may not always be tasty to eat. Comment with examples.

Paheli and Boojho peeled some potatoes and cut them into small pieces. They washed and boiled them in water. They threw away the excess water and fried them in oil adding salt and spices. Although the potato dish tasted very good, its nutrient value was less. Suggest a method of cooking potatoes that will not lower the nutrients in them.

Paheli avoids eating vegetables but likes to eat biscuits, noodles and white bread. She frequently complains of stomachache and constipation. What are the food items that she should include in her diet to get rid of the problem? Give reason for your answer.

List all those components of food that provide nutrients.

Mention two components of food that do not provide nutrients.

‘Water does not provide nutrients, yet it is an important component of food’. Explain.

Which statement out of the following is incorrect?

Which of the following materials did people use in ancient times for making clothes?

1. Leaves of trees
2. Newspaper
3. Metal foils
4. Animal skins and furs

Provide a suitable term that expresses the meaning of the following statement.

Worms converting certain kinds of waste into manure.

Paheli was writing a letter to her friend. She crumpled and threw the first draft of her letter on the floor as it had become untidy. Similarly she crumpled and threw 6 more papers on the ground. In the end, she picked them up and put them in a polythene bag and threw it on the road outside her house. Do you think Paheli’s action were responsible? What would you have done if you were in her place?

The pie charts A and B shown in the following figure are based on waste segregation method adopted by two families X and Y respectively.

  Metal

  Kitchen Waste

  Polythene Bags

  News Paper

  Kitchen Waste and Polythene Bags

Which of the two families X or Y do you think is more environmentally conscious and why?

Answer the following question in one or two words or sentences:

Why should we prefer to use paper bags rather than polythene bags?

How many muscles work together to move a bone?

What would have happened if our backbone was made of one single bone?

Provide one word answers to the statement given below.

Bones which enclose the organs of our body that lie below the abdomen.

Which amongst the following methods would be most appropriate to separate grains from bundles of stalks?

______ are obtained from stalks by threshing. 

Bones are hard structures and cannot be bent. But, we can still bend our elbow, knee, etc. How is this possible?

Unscramble the jumbled word and write it in the blank space provided.

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