6th Class Science Ch4 What Do Animals Eat ? Question and Answer.

6th Class Science Ch4 What Do Animals Eat?

Question and Answer.

Q1. Name some animals in your house which have the same kind of food habits

Ans:

Buffalo, rabbits, and Goat are other domestic animals that are found in common in our houses. All of them have the same type of food habits. All of them are herbivores and dependent upon the same shrubs plants and grasses follow the same kind of food habit

Based on animals' food habits they are classified as...

Herbivores

Carnivores

Omnivores

Q2. Observe your surroundings or go to a nearby field and write about the following.

A) How does the cow eat grass?

B) What parts are used while doing so?

C) In what ways can you justify it as a herbivore?

Ans

a). As soon as a cow finds its food, it takes it into its mouth. First, it chews it very quickly and swallows and stores it in the 1st stomach. After some time that takes the food material back from the 1st stomach to the mouth chews it again and swallows it into 2nd stomach. It is called rumination. Rumination enables cows to chew grass more. It also improves digestion.

b). First it uses its eyes, and moves close to the Food. Then it uses its mouth parts like the upper gum and lower teeth and tongue. The cow doesn't have teeth on its upper jaw.

c). Cow is a herbivore. Because depends only upon green plants' leaves and bunches.

Q3. Compare the legs and nails of a Dog and Hen and say why they are different.

Ans:

Dog:

The dog has four legs and 4 claws on each leg. It is an omnivore.

Hen:

Hen has two legs and three claws on each leg. It is an omnivore.

Q4. 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)

Ans: Crane has a long beak and is used to catch the fish with the help of this long beak. the grains usually live nearby lakes, and ponds. The crane at first observes the motion of the fish in the water, then it catches with its long beak.

Q5: Name some animals which use the tongue as a tool for taking food.

Ans: Use of the tongue as a tool in taking food:

Reptiles use tongues as tools for taking food. Example snakes Chameleons, Lizards,

Butterflies take their food using a long needle-like part of their body and suck sweet substances from the flowers this needle-like function is called a Proboscis or sucker.

Other animals like Dogs and cows use their tongue for drinking milk water. Cows, Buffaloes, Frogs, Lizards, Lion, tigers, Wolf, and giraffes are some animals that use tongues to take in food.

Q6. Butterfly uses ................................. to suck honey from flowers

Ans: Proboscis.

Q7: Do the following and record your observations. Collect 1 or 2 earthworms and put them in a bottle containing wet soil. Close it with the lid which has holes. Observe how earthworms get their food.

Ans: Earthworms live in soil and eat soil and the eaten soil combines with the digestive juice of the earthworm and forms like castings.

These castings are excreted out and used as manure.

Earthworms are also called friends of farmers. Usually, earthworms come out on the ground only in the rainy season. Because the holes or pits are filled with rainwater.

This is my observation about earthworms.

Q8. Which animals in the forest depend only on plants or only on animals for food?

Ans: The animals living in the forest are wild as animals.

There are herbivores (eat plants) and omnivores (eat animals) living in the forest.

Herbivores: Giraffe, Elephant, Deer, Rabbit, Monkey, Zebra.

Carnivores: Lion, Tiger, Cheetah, Fox, Eagle.

Q9: Fill up the following body parts used for eating food with suitable examples.

Ans: Beak used by ...

Hooked beaks--------> Hens, Owls, Eagles, Hawks

Cone-shaped beaks-> Goldfinches, Sparrows, Canaries.

Short curved beaks->Parrots, Macaws.

Tongue used by ...Frogs, chameleons, and anteaters.