Time:

10:00 AM

Duration:

120

SECTION - A

Answer all questions

1

Name the following:

(a)              The nutrients which mainly give energy to our body.

(b)              The nutrients that are needed for the growth and maintenance of our body.

(c)              A vitamin required for maintaining good eyesight.

(d)              A mineral that is required for keeping our bones healthy.

2

How obesity is caused?

3

Do you think it is better to eat a katori of fat than a katori of carbohydrate? Why?

4

Why should we not wash rice and pulses repeatedly?

5

Suveer used few drops of iodine solution on a foodstuff. It showed blue-black colouration. The foodstuff is:

(A) Sugar
(B) Fat
(C) Protein
(D) Starch.

Answer any 4 questions

1

What is the difference between parallel venation and reticulate venation?

2

Which plants have weak stems that cannot stand upright and spread on the ground?

3

Is it possible for you to recognise the leaves without seeing them? How?

4

Which of the following plants have you seen? Of those that you have seen, which one have flowers?

Grass, maize, wheat, chilli, tomato, tulsi, pipal, shisham, banana, mango, lemon, sugar cane, potato, groundnut, banyan, Jamun, guava, pomegranate, papaya.

5

Which of these roots are present as bunch under the stem in a plant?

(A) Tap root
(B) Fibrous root
(C) Both
(D) None of these.

6

Which part of plant conducts water and minerals to other part from roots?

(A) Tree
(B) Stem
(C) Flower
(D) Leave