Animals and their Food

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Animals and their Food: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Food of Animals, Common Animals and Their Food, Classification of Animals Based on Food Habits, Omnivores and Frugivorous Animals.

Important Questions on Animals and their Food

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Define frugivorous animals.

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Write two examples of frugivorous animals.

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Frugivorous animals hunt and eat the flesh of other animals.

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Name an animal that swallows its food as a whole. (Antelope/Snake)

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Choose the appropriate word from the given options.

Give an example of a decomposer. (Earthworm/Roundworm)

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Omnivorous animals are those that consume both plants and animals for food.

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Human beings come under the classification of_____.

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What do you generally understand by food habits? Classify animals based on food habits.

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 You must have seen a cow chewing the cud. Why does it do so ? 

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How does an elephant's trunk help it to have its food?

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What would have happened, had there been no lips, teeth and tongue in our mouth.

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In the below-given table two creatures are already given, fill up the remaining blanks left out in the table.

S.no Name of creatures  How is food eaten Helping organs 
1.  Cow Chew and swallow Lips, tongue, teeth
2 Mosquito Suck A pipe-like structure below the head 
3. Frog    
4. Butterfly    
5. Lizard    
6. Dog    
7. Housefly    
8. Goat    
9. Man    
10 Bed-bug     
11. Crow    
12. Squirrel    

 

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In the table, the names of a few creatures are given. In the space provided against each creature, write what they eat? 

S. No Name of creatures  Food 
1 Buffalo  
2 Cat  
3 Rat/mouse  
4 Crow  
5 Goat    
6 Spider  
7 Tiger  
8 Hen  
9 Vulture  
10 Lizard  
11 Bed bug  
12 Worms   
13 Monkey  
14 Dog  
15 Man  
16 Honey bee  
17 Mosquito   

 

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Match the organisms with the food they eat.

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Name two animals that eat fodder.

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Parrot eats chilli.

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He eats _____(different/ grains/ stings).

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The food of the animals is of many types. Have you ever given food to any animals or birds? Find the food of the following animal or bird from the puzzle and write it in space given.

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The food of the animals is of many types. Have you ever given food to any animals or birds? Find the food of the following animal or bird from the puzzle and write it in space given.

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The food of the animals is of many types. Have you ever given food to any animals or birds? Find the food of the following animal or bird from the puzzle and write it in the space given.

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