AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

AP State Syllabus AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food Textbook Questions and Answers.

AP State Syllabus 6th Class Science Solutions 3rd Lesson Animals and their Food

6th Class Science 3rd Lesson Animals and their Food Textbook Questions and Answers

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Fill in the Blanks.

1. The butterfly uses ——– to suck honey from flowers.
Answer:
Proboscis.
2. Tiger is a ——– because it eats only meat.
Answer:
carnivore.
3. Decomposers are also called ——–
Answer:
Recyclers.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

Choose the correct answer.

1. The source of energy for a food chain is
A) Producers
B) Consumers
C) Sun
D) Decomposers
Answer:
C) Sun

2. Identify the omnivore from the following.
A) Lion
B) Cow
C) Dog
D) Tiger
Answer:
C) Dog

3. At which position of the food chain would you place a human being
A) Primary consumer
B) Secondary consumer
C) Tertiary consumer
D) All the above
Answer:
C) Tertiary consumer

Answer the Following Questions.

1. List some animals in your surroundings which have the same kind of food habit.
Answer:

  • Cow, buffalo, goat and sheep have some kind of food habit as an herbivore depend upon the plants for food.
  • Dog and cat depend upon meat, milk and curd.

2. Compare the legs and nails of a dog and hen and say why they are different?
Answer:

Dog Hen
1. Legs of dog is longer and has four legs. 1. Legs of hen is shorter and has 2 legs.
2. The legs are muscular and strongly jointed. 2. The legs are thin them dog’s leg.
3. It has hard and slight curved nails. 3. It has thin, sharp and slightly elongated nails.
4. It uses its legs to run and catch the prey. 4. It uses legs to dig the ground to find food.
5. The nails are used for tearing the flesh. 5. Nails are useful for scratching the soil to pick up worms.

3. Name some animals which use tongue as a tool for taking in food.
Answer:
Frogs, lizards, garden lizard, chameleon, echidna use tongue as a tool for taking in food.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

4. Identify which of the following statements are wrong and give reasons.
(a) All the animals living in water feed only on plants.
(b) Elephants and deer are herbivores living in the forest.
(c) Birds’ beaks are designed to suit their food habits.
(d) Sharp claws are useful for hunting.
(e) Most of the food chains end with herbivores.
Answer:
a) All the animals living in water feed only on plants.

  • This statement is wrong. There are many animals living in water which eat animals.
    Ex: A blue whale in the sea eats tiny animals called krill.

b) Elephants and deer are herbivores living in the forest.

  • This statement is correct as elephants and deer are herbivores living in the forest.

c) Bird’s beaks are designed to their food habits.

  • This statement is correct as bird’s beaks are designed to their food habits.

d) Sharp claws are useful for hunting.

  • This statement is correct.
  • Sharp claws of some animals meant for tearing the flesh of prey. And also help to increase traction to run faster as in the case of cheetah.
  • In some animals claws help holding the grip for running while hunting.
  • In the hen the claws are helpful to scratch the soil to find worms.

e) Most of the food chains end with herbivores.

  • This statement is wrong.
  • The food chain starts with herbivores and ends with carnivores which are wild.

5. Write the importance of the food chain.
Answer:

  • The food chain shows how energy is transferred from one living organism to another organism.
  • It describes energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem.
  •  It shows the relationship between producers and consumers.
  • It explains the interdependence of diverse organisms in nature.

6. Arrange the following in a correct sequence and form a food chain
1. Rabbit → Carrot → Eagle → Snake
2. Human → Insect → Algae → Fish
Answer:
1. Carrot → Rabbit → Snake → Eagle
2. Algae → Insect → Fish → Human

7. If you want to understand more about food chain what questions would you like to ask?
Answer:

  • What is food chain?
  • How does animals and plants dependent on one another?
  • How does energy flow with in an ecosystem?
  • Is there any relation of food habits of animals with that of living ecosystem?
  • How the nature balances the ecosystem?
  • Why the food chain always starts with plants?

8. What happens if there are no decomposers on the earth?
Answer:

  • Bacteria and fungi are get energy by breakdown of dead plants and animals. So, they are called decomposers.
  • They help in the cycling of materials in the environment.
  • If there were no decomposers the dead and waste materials remains on earth.
  • The nutrients would not be replenished.
  • Natural enrichment of the soil cannot takes place.
  • Because of the dead organisms remain on earth, the existence of life on earth would have been impossible.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

9. Draw a food chain of your choice.
Answer:

10. How can you appreciate the role of producers in a food chain?
Answer:

  • Plants are known as producers, as they make their own food.
  • Plants are the only organisms which provide food for all organisms in an ecosystem.
  • In an ecosystem, Producers are at base of entire food chain.
  • Plants not only provide the food but also oxygen to the earth.
  • Plants are the precious things to continue the life on earth.

Activities and Projects

Question 1.
Go to a nearby pond where cranes are usually seen. Observe how they catch fish. Write about the process of catching fish. (Take care of yourself when you are near water places.)
Answer:

  • The crane usually has been seen in lakes and the fishes are food for that.
  • The long thin legs that it has helps it to move in the water without disturbing the water.
  • While catching the fish it tries to move very slowly.
  • So that the fishes don’t know its presence it also can stand still for a long time for hunting of fishes.
  • Crane used to catch the fish with the help of their long beak.

Question 2.
Collect one or two earthworms and put them in a bottle containing wet soil. Close it with a lid that has holes. Observe how earthworms get their food. Record your observations.
Answer:
Aim: To observe the eating activity of earthworms in the wet soil.
What we want: Two earthworms, one glass bottle, wet soil.
What to do: Take a glass bottle and fill it with some wet soil.

  • Now kept the two earthworms in the soil filled bottle.
  • Observe them for sometime.

What do we see: We observed that the earthworms are started swallowing soil in, little quantities.
What we learned: With the above observations we concluded that the earthworms are feed on moist soil which contains nutrients.

Question 3.
Fill up the following table

Body part used to collect food Examples
Beak Hens,…
Tongue
Teeth
Sucker
Strong legs with claws

Answer:

Body part used to collect food Examples
Beak Hens, crane, parrot, eagle, humming bird.
Tongue Lizard, frog, snake, garden lizard, chameleon, dog.
Teeth Cat, dog, tiger, lion.
Sucker Leech.
Strong legs with claws Tiger, lion, dog.

Question 4.
Make your own food chain and display it in your classroom.
Answer:
Plant → Caterpillar → Chameleon → Snake → Mangoose
(This food chain can make with diagrams of those animals) (Student Activity)

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

Question 5.
Prepare a scrapbook of animals and separate them into carnivores, omnivores and herbivores.
Answer:
Students can collect the pictures of different animals and after dividing them into carnivores, omnivores and herbivores they can be pasted under these heads separately in the scrapbook. (Student Activity)
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6th Class Science 3rd Lesson Animals and their Food Activities

Activity – 1

Some animals are listed in the given Table -1. For some the animals, the type of food they eat is also given. Fill the blanks in Table.

Name of the animal Food the animal eats
Buffallo Grass, oil cake, hay, grains
Cat Small animals, Birds, Milk
Rat
Lion
Tiger
Spider
House Lizard
Cow
Human Beings
Butterfly
Crow
Others

Answer:

Name of the animal Food the animal eats
Buffallo Grass, oil cake, hay, grains
Cat Small animals, Birds, Milk
Rat Seeds, insects, small animals
Lion Deer, jiraffee, fox etc.
Tiger Other animals
Spider Beetles, flies
House lizard Worms, insects
Cow Grass, oil cake, hay, grains.
Homan beings Rice, eggs, milk, meat etc.
Butterfly Nectar
Crow Small animals, insects

Answer the following questions based on the table.
i) List the animals that depend only on plants and their products for food.
Answer:
Buffalo, cow, butterfly.

ii) List the animals that depend only on animals and their products for food.
Answer:
Cat, lion, tiger, house lizard, spider.

iii) List the animals that depend on both plants and animals for food.
Answer:
Rat, cow, crow and human beings.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

Activity – 2

2. Write the parts of the body animals that are used to collect or capture food in the given table.

S. No. Animal Sense used in tracking food Body parts-used in taking food
1. Dog Smell Sharp teeth, Tongue
2. Cow
3. Hen Beak
4. Frog
5. Snake
6. Bat
7. Lizard
8. Vulture
9 Lion Legs, Claws, Mouth ….
10. Humming Bird

Answer:

S. No. Animal Sense used in tracking food Body parts used in taking food
1. Dog Smell Sharp teeth, tongue
2. Cow Smell, vision Mouth, tongue
3. Hen Vision Beak, claws
4. Frog Touch Tongue
5. Snake Taste, Smell Mouth, teeth
6. Bat Hearing Mouth, tongue
7. Lizard Vision, hearing Mouth, tongue
8. Vulture Vision, smell Beak, claws
9. Lion Vision, hearing Legs, claws, mouth
10. Humming bird Smell, taste Beak

Answer the following questions based on the above table.
i) Do all the animals use similar parts in taking in food?
Answer:

  • No. All animals do not use similar parts in taking in food.
  • Ex: Cow and lizard uses mouth and tongue, whereas hen and humming bird uses beak taking in food.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

ii) Name some animals which use similar parts in taking in food?
Answer:
The animals that use some parts for taking food are

  1. Hen, humming bird, vulture use their beak to get food.
  2. Cat and dog – use their sharp teeth to tear the food in pieces.
  3. Lizard and frog – use their tdngue to capture the food.
  4. Lion and tiger – uses their strong legs to run for chasing the animal, sharp claws to catch and sharp teeth to tear flesh.

iii) Compare the parts of dog to that of frog. Note down the similarities as well as differences observed by you.
Answer:
Dog uses smell sense to trick the food whereas frog have a smell organ in the roof of their mouth called the jacobsons organ. This detects food.

  • Dog and frog both use the tongue in taking food.
  • The dog uses its teeth and nails in capturing the food, while frog uses its sticky tongue to capture the food and swallows it.

iv) Compare the parts of hen and sparrow in eating food. Note down the similarities as well as differences you observed.
Answer:
Similarites:

  • Hen and sparrow use their beaks to take the food in.
  • Both are finding out their food by using the vision, as a sense.
  • Hen and sparrow both feeds on grains, worms and insects.

Difference:

  • Hen uses its claws to scratch the soil to find out worms whereas sparrows feed on the insects / worms which are present on plants.

v) What are the similarities between a dog and a lion in the parts involved in taking in food?
Answer:

  • The dog licks with its tongue and runs fast.
  • The lion hunts the other animals. It uses strong legs to run sharp claws to catch and sharp teeth to tear the flesh.
  • The claws of the lion are also sharp to hold the animal.
  • Dog also uses its teeth and nails in capturing its food.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

vi) What are the similarities and differences between a vulture and a lion in their mode of taking in food?
Answer:

  • Both lion and vulture are carnivores.
  • They both have sharp vision and use their sharp claws to tear the flesh.
  • Lion hunts animals staying on land.
  • Vulture hunts its food by flying high in the sky.

Activity – 3

3. Look at the picture. Different birds have different beaks. Do you know why they are different?
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Answer:
The beaks are different because the birds eat different kinds of food.

  • So, the type of beaks depends upon their habitat, environment and food habits also.
  • The beaks of birds are help to them to kill the prey, to fight, to get food and feeding their young ones. Based on their food habit the birds have different types of beaks such as strong hooked beak, hooked beak, long beak, long thin beak etc.

Activity – 4

4. i) Observe how a lizard catches its food. Write down your observations.
Answer:

  • Lizard uses its visionary sense to track the food.
  • Lizard concentrates its attention on the movements of the insect.
  • Lizard moves so fast towards the insect.
  • It catches the insect by using tongue and eats it.

ii) Find out the differences between a frog and a lizard’s way of taking in food.
Answer:

Frog Lizard
1. Frog is carnivore as it feed on insects and worms. 1. Lizard is insectivore in nature as it feed on insects.
2. Frog senses the food through a social organ called jacobsons organ in the roof of their mouth- 2. Lizard uses its visionary sense to track the food.
3. Frog throws its sticky tongue towards an insect. The insect stuck to the tongue. Then the frog swallows it. 3. Lizard moves so fast towards the insect, and catches the insect with the tongue and eats it.

iii) How do these animals (Frog, lizard) use their tongue?
Answer:
These animals (Frog, lizard) use their tongue to capture the food.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

Activity – 5

5. Observe a cow/buffalo while eating its food. Write your observations in your notebook by following the given questions.
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i) How does a cow find its food?
Answer:
Cow finds its food by using the sense of smell.

ii) Note the parts of the body involved in it?
Answer:
Mouth and tongue are involved to take the food in.

iii) What mouthparts of the cow are involved in eating its food?
Answer:

  • The cow uses its tongue to grasp a clump of grass.
  • Teeth help to shred the grass into small pieces.

iv) Do cows have teeth? Do they have teeth on both jaws?
Answer:
Yes. Cows have teeth on both jaws. But don’t have top front teeth.

v) In what way can you justify it is herbivore?
Answer:

  • Cow depends only on plant and plant products for food.
  • They eat different parts of plants like green/dry grass, leaves, branches arid fruits.
  • So that, we can say cow is herbivore.

vi) You may have observed cows and buffaloes sitting under the trees and moving their jaws. Do you know why they do that?
Answer:

  • Cow and buffalo chew food very quickly, swallow and store it in a part of their stomach.
  • After some time, they back the food material from the stomach to the mouth and chew it again leisurely.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

Activity – 6

6. Observe a dog in your surroundings. How does it get its food? Write your observations by following the given questions.
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i) What does it do to find food?
Answer:
The dog finds its food by smelling. Dog’s nose is a thousand times more sensitive than ours.

ii) Which parts are involved in taking in food?
Answer:
The mouth and tongue are involved in taking in food.

iii) How does a dog eat meat?
Answer:

  • The dog catches another animal with its legs.
  • It tears the meat using its sharp teeth.
  • It eats the meat and chews it with the help of teeth and uses its tongue to swallow it.

iv) How does a dog drink water?
Answer:
The dog licks water with its tongue and drinks it.

v) Is there any difference in using its tongue when compared with a frog or a cow? Write in the space provided below.

Animal Use of tongue
Frog
Cow
Dog

Answer:

Animal Use of tongue
Frog To catch the food
Cow To swallow grass
Dog To lick water

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

Activity – 7

7. Observe the picture and answer the following questions.
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i) What is the source of energy in a food chain?
Answer:
Sunlight is the source of energy in a food chain.

ii) How does grasshopper get its energy?
Answer:

  • In a food chain grasshopper is a primary consumer so that it depends on grass for food.
  • Then grasshopper gets its energy by eating grass.

iii) What happens to the crow if the frog was removed from this food chain?
Answer:

  • In this food chain frog is a secondary consumer as its feed on grasshopper.
  • If the frog was removed in this food chain, the grasshopper population will be increased.
  • In this food chain crow is a tertiary consumer as its feed on frogs.
  • If the frog was removed from this food chain, the crows will go hungry and their population will be decreased.

AP Board 6th Class Science Solutions Chapter 3 Animals and their Food

iv) What is the role of mushrooms in the given picture?
Answer:

  • Mushroom is a decomposer.
  • Mushroom get it energy by the breakdown of dead matter.
  • It helps in the cycling of materials in between producers, consumers and to the soil.

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