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, banyan, mango, jamun, guava, pomegranate, papaya, banana, lemon, sugarcane, potato, groundnut
The plants with flowers are:
Chilli, tomato, Tulsi, mango, Jamun, guava, pomegranate, papaya and banana.
Whereas; grass, maize, wheat, pipal, shisham, sugarcane, potato, groundnut have no flowers.
Draw (a) a leaf, (b) a taproot and (c) a flower, you have studied for Table 7.3.
Name the part of the plant which produces its food. Name this process.
Which of the following leaves have reticulate venation?
Wheat, tulsi, maize, grass, coriander (dhania), China rose
Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
(a) Stem absorbs water and minerals from the soil.
(b) Leaves hold the plant upright.
(c) Roots conduct water to the leaves.
(d) The number of petals and sepals in a flower is always equal.
(e) If the sepals of a flower are joined together, its petals are also joined together.
(f) If the petals of a flower are joined together, then the pistil is joined to the petal.
If a plant has fibrous root, what type of venation do its leaves likely to have?
Name two flowers, each with joined and separated sepals.
Can you find a plant in your house or in your neighborhood, which has a long but a weak stem? Write its name. In which category would you classify it?
In which part of a flower, you are likely to find the ovary?
Write the names of the parts of a flower.
If a plant has leaves with reticulate venation, what kind of roots will it have?
(a) Which kind of garbage is not converted into compost by the redworms?
(b) Have you seen any other organism besides redworms, in your pit? If yes, try to find out their names. Draw pictures of these.
Rearrange the boxes given below to make a sentence that helps us understand opaque objects.
To walk through a waterlogged area, you usually shorten the length of your dress by folding it. Can this change be reversed?
Do you find that all living beings need the same kind of food?
Name the major nutrients in our food.
Classify the following fibres as natural or synthetic:
nylon, wool, cotton, silk, polyester, jute
Name five objects which can be made from wood.
Why do we need to separate different components of a mixture? Give two examples.
Fill in the blanks:
(a) Joints of the bones help in the ——————— of the body.
(b) A combination of bones and cartilages forms the _______ of the body.
(c) The bones at the elbow are joined by a ______________________ joint.
(d) The contraction of the _____________ pulls the bones during movement.
What is a habitat?
Is it possible to separate sugar mixed with wheat flour? If yes, how will you do it?
How would you obtain clear water from a sample of muddy water?
Explain the process of making yarn from fibre.
(a) Which kind of garbage is not converted into compost by the redworms?
(b) Have you seen any other organism besides redworms, in your pit? If yes, try to find out their names. Draw pictures of these.
How will you separate sand and water from their mixture?
Classify the following fibres as natural or synthetic:
nylon, wool, cotton, silk, polyester, jute
A bar magnet has no markings to indicate its poles. How would you find out near which end is its north pole located?
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 ___________________.
From which parts of the plant cotton and jute are obtained?
What is a habitat?