Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) इयत्ता ६ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Science

Given below are names of some animals.

1. Goat
2. Human beings
3. Cockroach
4. Eagle

Which of the above animals form a pair of omnivores?

Read the clues and fill up the blanks given below each of them.

Animals which eat other animals.

___ A ___ N ___ V ___ R ___ S

Read the clues and fill up the blanks given below each of them.

Animals which eat only plants and plant products.

H E ___ B ___ ___ ___ ___ E ___

Read the clues and fill up the blanks given below each of them.

Animals which eat both plants and animals.

___ M N I ___ O ___ ___ ___

North pole of a magnet can be identified by

A bar magnet is immersed in a heap of iron filings and pulled out. The amount of iron filling clinging to the

When a bar magnet is broken; each of the broken part will have ______ pole/poles.

Identify the animals in the grid given below as figure and categorise them into herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.

Read the names of animals written in the inner ring of figure. Within the second ring write the types of food they eat and the category to which they belong (based on the eating habit) in the outermost ring. One example has been worked out for you. Use red, green and blue colours for writing.

Which of the following nutrients is not present in milk?

Read the food items given below:

1. Wheat
2. Ghee
3. Iodised salt
4. Spinach (palak)

Which of the above food items are “energy giving foods”?

Three identical iron bars are kept on a table. Two out of three bars are magnets. In one of the magnet the North-South poles are marked. How will you find out which of the other two bars is a magnet? Identify the poles of this magnet.

Unscramble the following word related to component of food and write it in the space provided.

nitesturn - ______ 

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.