TS 6th Class Science Important Questions 4th Lesson What Do Animals Eat?

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TS 6th Class Science Important Questions 4th Lesson What Do Animals Eat?

Question 1.
Define the following. Give examples.
a. Herbivores
b. Carnivores
c. Omnivores
(Or)
How many types of animals are there on asis of their food habit?
(Or)
Write down the modes of getting food mais.
Answer:
a. Herbivores: Animals that depend oni’ on plants for food are called herbivores.
Eg: Sheep, cow, goat
b. Carnivores: Animals that depend on other animals for food are called
Carnivores. Eg: Lion, tiger, dog.
c. Omnivores: AnimaIs that take food from plants and animals are called
omnivores. Eg: Man, bear.

Question 2.
Write a few lines about skaters. How do they capture the food?
Answer:

• Pond skaters are the insects which feeds on other insects.
• We can find pond skaters near a pond.
• They move quickly from one side of the pond to another to catch an insect that falls in water.
• They detect ripples produced in water by any other insect trapped on the outer surface.
• They compare the ripples on the opposite side of the pond, caused by legs of the insect struggling to move out, calculate the distance and sets out to grab it.

Question 3.
Can we call the crows as natural scavengers? (Or)
How do the crows help us cleaning the environment?
Answer:
Crows that live in our surroundings usually eat waste and rotten food material dead animal etc. They keep our surroundings clean in this manner. So they are called natural scavengers.

Question 4.
Write a few lines about rumination of herbivores. (Or)
How does the cow collect its food ? Write the process of digestion in it.
Answer:
Animals like cows, chew food very fast and swallow and store it in a part of their stomach. After sometime they take food material back from the stomach to the mouth and chew it again. This process is called “rumination”.

Question 5.
Do you know about nocturnals ? Write about them.
Answer:
Some animals search for their food only at night. Cockroaches, desert lizards, rats, owls, bats, moths, crickets etc., get their food at night only. During day time they hide in dark places. These type of animals are called “nocturnals”.

Question 6.
What are the ways by which animals take their food in?
Answer:
Sucking, licking, pecking, chewing, peeling, swallowing are all the ways by which animals take their food in.

Question 7.
Prepare a food chain by using the following animals. (Lion, Grass, Deer)
Answer:
Grass → Deer → Lion

Question 8.
Write the differences between Herbivores – Carnivores
Answer:

Herbivores	Carnivores
1. Animals that eat only plant products are called herbivores.	1. Animals that eat other animals are called carnivores.
2. These live in the areas where plants are grown.	2. Generally they search for their prey in the favourable conditions.
3. These are ranging from small insects to big-sized animals like elephants.	3. These include animals such as dog, lion cat etc.
4. Teeth are modified for eating plant parts.	4. Sharp teeth and claws are present to hunt and eat the prey.

Question 9.
Describe one food chain with examples.
Answer:
Grass → Insects → Frog → Snake → Hawk

• Grass is a primary producer. It gets food naturally. They prepare their food on their own.
• Insects are primary consumers. They feed on plants.
• Frog feeds on insects. Frog is considered a secondary consumer.
• Snake eats frogs. Snake is a tertiary consumer in the food chain.
• Hawk is the top most consumer that eats snake.

Question 10.
Name some animals which use tongue for taking the food.
Answer:
Frog, lizard, garden lizard etc.

Question 11.
Make a food chain with these organisms.
Grass, Wolf, Goat.
Answer:
Grass → Goat → Wolf.

Question 12.
Write food habits of four animals and compare each other.
Answer:

Question 13.
Explain how woodpecker and parrot get their food.
Answer:
Woodpecker:

• The food of woodpecker consists of insects, nuts, seeds, ants etc.
• It has sharp, hard and long beak to collect food.
• Woodpeckers sometimes drill and make holes in the bark of tree trunks to collect the insects. These birds are generally called omnivores based on food habits.

Parrot

• Parrots are also omnivorous. They eat both small insects/meat and fruits.
• They use their hooked beak to collect the food.

Question 14.
How do bats search food material in the night?
Answer:

• Bats are not blind. But at night their ears are more important than their eyes.
• As they fly they make ultrasonic sounds.
• The returning echoes give the bats information about the food.
• This system of finding prey is called echo location.

Question 15.
What is a food chain ? Write any three food chains present in your surroundings.
Answer:
Food chain: Group of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food is called food cham.
Eg: Grass → grasshopper → garden lizard
Plants → goat → man
Insects → frog → snake

Question 16.
Can you imagine the wonder world of ants? (Or) What do you learn from ants?
Answer:

• Ants do a lot of things. Their colony has large ant forces to do the work.
  There are mainly workers, soldiers, female and male ants.
• The workers collect and maintain food stock for others in the colony along with several other duties.
• Just as we keep cows for milk, ants keep a type of insect called aphids.
• Ants are known for their discipline.

Question 17.
What happens if any organism disappears from food chain?
Answer:

• If any organism disappears from the food chain, then the organisms in the next trophic level dependent on these organisms will die due to unavailability of food.
• The population of organisms in the below trophic level will increase.

Question 18.
What will happen if leaches lack suckers?
Answer:
Leaches obtain their food by sucking. Naturally their food is blood of animals.
If suckers are absent leaches cannot get their food.

Question 19.
Rat → Cat → Dog
If cat is eliminated from the above food chain what consequences occur?
Answer:
If cat is eliminated from the given food chain the following consequences will occur.

• Rat population will increase. As a result, crops are destroyed by rats. When crops are destroyed food production ultimately will decrease. Therefore people may suffer from food scarcity.
• Elimination of cat will lead to struggle in the dog’s population. But dogs may go for another prey such as other animals meat. Some how they may struggle if they depend completely on cat for food.

Question 20.
You can see many animals in your surroundings. Discuss them with your friends. Make a list of what they usually eat and also write down what they usually do to find their food. Keep adding to this list as you observe animals around you everyday.
(Or)
Animals identify their food by sense, smell, sight, hearing, taste and touch. Give one example for each sense.
(Or)
Prepare a list of any 8 animaIs I birds which you have seen in your surroundings and their food habit.
Answer:

S. No	Animal/Bird	What they eat/drink	How they find food
1.	Sparrow	Worms, grains, seeds etc	Looking
2.	Dog	Meat, bread, bones etc.	Smelling, sniffing
3.	Hen	Worms, grains	Looking, pecking
4.	Cat	Milk, meat, curd	Sniffing, licking, eating
5.	Cow	Grass	Looking, searching
6.	Buffalo	Grass	Looking, searching
7.	Butterfly	Flowers’ nectar	Searching, testing wit! mouth
8.	Lizard	Small worms	Searching, seeing
9.	Frog	Insects, worms	Searching, looking
10.	Crow	Rice, meat pieces, egg	Looking, pecking

Question 21.
Think about any three animals and their food habits, tabulate information about food groups on which they feed.

S. No	Food group	Examples

Answer:
There are three food groups namely plants, animals and the third group both plants and animals. We can make the following table based on the food groups with suitable examples.

S. No	Food group	Examples
1.	Only plants	Cow, sheep, goat
2.	Only animals	Fox, lion, tiger
3.	Both	Human beings, crow

Question 22.
Find out the body parts of the given animals and birds which help in collecting or capturing food.
1. Hen
2. Cow
3. Dog
4. Frog
5. Snake
6. Man
7. Lizard
8. Vulture
9. Lion
10. Humming bird
You have to visit the surroundings or watch the animal environment related channels or visit internet to get accurate information. (Or) Complete the following table.

Name of the animal	Body parts used in taking food

Answer:

S. No	Name of the Animal	Body parts used in taking food
1.	Hen	Beak, claws
2.	Cow	Teeth, tongue
3.	Dog	Tongue, teeth
4.	Frog	Tongue
5.	Snake	Mouth, body
6.	Man	Hands, teeth
7.	Lizard	Tongue
8.	Vulture	Beak, claws
9.	Lion	Legs, claws, mouth
10.	Hummingbird	Beak

Question 23.

Grass	Grains	Tree	Lion
Deer	Snake	Cat	Dog
Rat	Rabbit	Sheep	Grasshopper
Eagle	Cow	Fox	Tiger

Write any four food chains of your choice.
Answer:

• Grains → Rat → Snake → Eagle
• Grass → Deer Tiger
• Grass → Sheep → Tiger
• Grass → Cow → Lion

Question 24.

Woodpeckers	Have a long beak and strong, by using this beak they remove layers of bark and eat ants and pests, which lie under the bark
Crane	Long beak, by which it catches fish in water
Vultures	Strong hooked beaks, to tear flesh off animals and also have sharp claws to tear flesh
Parrot	Hooked beak, which helps in eating fruits and cracking nuts

i. Which birds are “Carnivores”?
Answer: Vultures

ii. Which bird has sharp claws and why do they use them?
Answer: Vultures have sharp claws to tear the flesh.

iii. What is the difference between vulture and parrot, in collecting food?
Answer: Vulture is carnivorous. Parrot is omnivorous.

iv. Why is beak long and strong in woodpeckers?
Answer: To remove layers of bark and eat ants and pets.

Question 25.

Herbivores	Carnivores	Omnivores
Rabbit	Eagle	Crow
Goat	Tiger	Human
Rat	Lion	Dog
Cow	Wolf

i. Make two food chains by using above information.
Answer:
Rabbit → Man → Tiger
Rat → Cat → Dog

ii. Name any two animals that eat plants.
Answer: Cow, goat

iii. What do the dog and tiger eat?
Answer: Meat

iv. Give two examples of omnivores.
Answer:  Crow, human

Question 26.
Observe the following table and answer the questions given below.
Answer:

S.No.	Food Group	Food Group Name	Examples
1.	Only Plants	Herbivores	Cow, Buffalo, Goat, Rabbit
2.	Only Animals	Carnivores	Fox, Tiger, Lion, Eagle
3.	Both	Omnivores	Human beings, Dog, Cat

i. Which food group members have less advantage in finding food? Why do you think so?
Answer: Carnivores. Because they depend on only animals for food.

ii. Give examples for herbivores.
Answer: Cow, buffalo, goat, rabbit

iii. Write down the example for animals which eat both plants and animals.
Answer: Human beings, dog, cat

iv. Write down what happens if all the animals eat only plants.
Answer: Plants number will decrease. Animals will struggle from lack of oxygen.

Question 27.
Observe the given food web and answer the following questions.

i. Write food chain starting with grass.
Answer: Grass → Deer → Fox

ii. Which animal consumes more number of other animals?
Answer: Tiger and lion

iii. Which animal stands as herbivore?
Answer: Deer

iv. How many other animals use hen as a prey?
Answer: Four animals

Question 28.
Name of the plants and its parts from which we get different kinds of food ingredients we use in daily food.
Answer:

S.No.	Animal	Body parts help in food collection
1.	Frog	Tongue
2.	Cow	Mouth, teeth
3.	Tiger	Toes, mouth, teeth
4.	Wall Lizard	Tongue, mouth
5.	Parrot	Beak
6.	Fish	Mouth, teeth
7.	Duck	Mouth, teeth

i. Which animals use the tongue for food collection ?
Answer: Frog, wall lizard.

ii. Which body part is useful for blood sucking in leech?
Answer: Suckers

iii. Aves collect the food with the help of
Answer: Beak

vi. Ducks have teeth in the mouth like cow and lion ? But what is the difference in the food collection ?
Answer: Teeth in duck are used as filters. But in cow and lion they are used for eating food.

Question 29.

S.No.	Type of food	Type of organism	Examples
1.	Depend on plants only	Herbivores	Cow, Goat
2.	Depend on animals only	Carnivores	Fox, Tiger
3.	Depend on plants and animals	Omnivores	Human being, Crow

i. What are the types the organisms depending on food habits ?
Answer: Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores

ii. What are omnivores ?
Answer: Animals depending on plants and animals.

iii. Frog, deer, hen belong to
Answer: Omnivores

iv. Give the examples for carnivores.
Answer: Fox and tiger

Question 30.
Read the following table and answer the questions.

S. No.	Name of the animal	Herbivore	Carnivore
1.	Lion	–	✓
2.	Fox	–	✓
3.	Rabbit	✓	–
4.	Deer	✓	–

i) Why are rabbit and deer called herbivores ?
Answer: They eat only plant parts.

ii) Give two more examples to carnivores.
Answer: Tiger, vulture, cat, fox

Question 31.
Herbivores eat plants. Eg : Rabbit
Carnivores eat other animals. Eg : Lion
Omnivores eat both plants and animals. Eg : Human being

i. Give examples of Herbivores and Carnivores.
Answer:
Rabbit, sheep, goat, cow etc., are herbivores.
Tiger, lion, fox, wolf etc., are carnivores.

ii. Write the difference between lion and human being.
Answer:
Lion is a carnivore.
Human being is an omnivore.

Question 32.
Classify the animals given based on the type of food they take.
Tiger, Deer, Cow, Lion.
Answer:

Tiger	Carnivore
Deer	Herbivore
Cow	Herbivore
Lion	Carnivore

Question 33.
Observe the following diagram. What does it explain ?
Answer:
The given picture tells us the food chain in pond.
We can see that eggs and larvae are eaten by fish and frogs.
Fish and frogs are food for a crane.
When crane dies its body will be decomposed by microbial organisms.

Question 34.
Draw the diagrams of beaks of a. Eagle b. Sparrow c. Duck d. Hen. Write their food material.

Answer:
a. Eagle’s food material is snake, rats, chicks.
b. Sparrow’s food is grains and small insects.
c. Duck’s food material is grains, small fish
d. Hen feeds on grains and small insects.

Question 35.
See the following. Draw connections to show which animal is eaten by whom. (Or) How does the food web form?

Or
Draw any one food chain.
Answer:

Question 36.
Prepare a food chain by filling the blanks in the given flow chart.

Answer:

Question 37.
Draw the diagram of any one omnivore.
Answer:

Question 38.
Draw a food chain from below given animals.
Frog, Insect, Eagle, Snake.
Answer:
Insect → Frog → Snake → Eagle

Question 39.
I live on both land and in water. Who am I ? How do I collect the food?
Answer:
Frog lives on both land and in water. Hence it is called an amphibian. Frog collects the food with its long sticky tongue.

Question 40.
How do you appreciate the difference in beaks of birds, to suit their food collection?
Answer:

• Birds in different areas depend on type of food material available in their places.
• Different birds are able to collect food with their beaks.
• Beak of one bird is different from beak of another bird. This make them to collect specific type of food.
• Some birds use their beak for collecting different food material.
• Even though birds have only beak to collect the food they show their capacity of food collection only through beaks.

Question 41.
Which body parts are used by lion to collect and eat food?
Answer:
Fore limb and its claws for killing the prey, sharp canine teeth for tearing the flesh.