CLASS 6 FOOD : WHERE DOES IT COME FROM

Food; - Materials which give us nutrients

Ingredients:- Materials which are needed to prepare a dish are called ingredients Ingredients of /chapatti :- Atta, water, Salt Ingredients of : Pulses, water, salt, oil/ ghee , spices

Plant Sources of Food :- Grains, Pulses, Oils, Fruits, Vegetables, Spices, Animal Sources of Food : , eggs, meat, chicken, fish, prawns, beef, pork Ingredients used to prepare food items and their sources Food Item Ingredients Sources Urad dal ,Salt Water Plant

Chicken Chicken Animal ghee Animals Spices Oil Plants Water

Kheer Milk Animal Rice ,Sugar Plant

Animals which give us milk ;-Cow, goat and buffaloes . Milk products  butter, cream, cheese and

PLANT PARTS AS FOOD leafy vegetables as food: Spinach, Cabbage. fruits as food:- , apple, Banana roots, as food: , stems as food: Potato flower : Cauli flower,

Plants with two or more edible (eatable) parts . Mustard Plant Seeds  Oil Leaves  vegetable

Banana plant : Fruit  as vegetable, as fruit Inner Stem  as vegetable Tender flower bunch  as vegetable Moringa Plant ( Drum stick) Leaf  Vegetable Fruit  Vegetable Flower  Vegetable Draw and Label the parts of a plant

Plant parts as food

Food item with plant Ingredients/source Plant part which gives as the major source us the ingredient

Brinjal curry Brinjal Fruit

Chilli as spice (any other Fruit Oil from groundnut, mustard, soybean, any other plant Seed

Do not try to test unknown plants around Reason:- Some plants could be poisonous.

Sprouting Seeds ( FA2 Activity)

Take some dry seeds of moong or chana . Put a small quantity of seeds in a container filled with water and leave this aside for a day. Next day, drain the water completely and leave the seeds in the vessel. Wrap them with a piece of wet cloth and set aside.

Observation ;

Result:-

Honey: - Bees collect nectar (sweet juices) from flowers, convert it into honey and store it in their hive.

Why do Bees store nectar:-Flowers and their nectar may be available only for a part of the year. So, bees store this nectar for their use all through the year. When we find such a beehive, we collect the food stored by the bees as honey.

Herbivores:- Animals which eat only plants are called Herbivores Carnivores:- Animals which eat only meat are called Carnivores. Omnivores:- Animals which eat both plants and animals are called Omnivores.

Name : Date: FA-2 CLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS BASED ON FOOD HABIT ( Grass, Oil Cake, Hay, Grains, small animals, birds, milk, small insects, Rice , wheat, fish, meat, salted fish, nectar, )

Fill up the blanks with the words given: (herbivore, plant, milk, sugarcane, carnivore) (a) Tiger is a ______because it eats only meat. (b) Deer eats only plant products and so, is called ______. (c) Parrot eats only ______products. (d) The ______that we drink, which comes from cows, buffaloes and goats is an animal product. (e) We get sugar from ______.

Write more examples in the table given below (Giraffe, Cat, Bat, Bear, Monkey, Fox, Sheep, Deer, Tiger, Horse, Donkey, Hippopotamus, Rhinoceros, Wolf, Cheetah, Leopard, Human, Eagle, Rat

EXERCISE

1. Do not eat unknown plants around us . Give reason?

2. Name five plants and their parts that we eat. Cabbage— Cauliflower- Carrot - Chilly - Spinach_

3. Match the items given in Column A with that in Column B

Column A Column B Milk, curd, paneer , ghee , eat other animals Spinach, cauliflower, carrot eat plants and plant products Lions and tigers are vegetables Herbivores are all animal products