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What is food? - Science

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What is food?

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  • Food is one of the basic needs of life. Food provides energy and it contains essential nutrients to keep our body healthy.
  • It is usually made by cooking plants and animals.
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Chapter 4: Science in Everyday Life - Evaluation [Page 122]

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Samacheer Kalvi Science - Term 1 [English] Class 4 TN Board
Chapter 4 Science in Everyday Life
Evaluation | Q IV 4. | Page 122

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Very Short Answer Type Questions:

Suggest any three ways you can think of to avoid wastage of food.


______, ______ are examples of cooked food.


Bread is ______ fat food.


Classify the following food items.

Carrot Egg Coconut oil Milk Radish Meat Potato Curd Brinjal
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finger
Fish Drumstick Butter Onion Buttermilk Cucumber Ghee -

______ is one of the basic needs of life.


What is Raw food?


How to make Salad?


Choose the odd one:


What is meant by raw food?


Given below are jumbled word which is name of part of a plant. Rearrange it to get the correct word.

L I L C H I


Given below are jumbled word which is name of part of a plant. Rearrange it to get the correct word.

S E A N B O Y A


Fill in the blanks from the list of words given below:

(carbohydrate, fat, protein, starch, sugar, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, roughage, balanced diet, obesity, goitre)

  1. Egg yolk is rich in ______ and egg albumin is rich in ______.
  2. Deficiency diseases can be prevented by taking a ______.
  3. Eating too much of fat rich foods may lead to a condition called ______.
  4. The component of food that does not provide any nutrient to our body and yet is essential in our food is ______.
  5. The vitamin that gets easily destroyed by heating during cooking is ______. 

Solve the cross-word puzzle given as figure from the clues given below.

                  Across

    1. Lack of nutrients in our diet over a long period causes these diseases (10)
    2. Rice and potato are rich in this type of carbohydrate (6)
    3. Deficiency disease in bones making it become soft and bent (7)
    4. The diet that provides all the nutrients that our body needs, in right quantities, along with adequate amount of roughage and water (8, 4)
    5. Deficiency disease with bleeding gums (6)
    6. Disease caused due to deficiency of iodine (6)
      Down
    7. Starch and sugar in our food are rich in this type of energy giving nutrient (13)
    8. The term given to the useful components of food (9)
    9. The disease caused by deficiency of iron in diet (7)
    10. Green leafy vegetables, liver and apples are rich in this mineral (4)
    11. Deficiency disease caused due to lack of vitamin B in the diet (8)

______ is a trace element required by our body.


Analogy:

Jams: ______
______: oil.


Name any two essential amino acids.


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