Methods of Food Ingestion

The first step of digestion:

What do you mean by ingestion?

Sucking by insects like mosquitoes is a mode of feeding.

Explain the modes of feeding in insects.

Choose the correct option from the following:
(Herbivore, Omnivore, Scavenger)
Vulture is a _____.

What do aquatic birds like swan eat?

Write 'true' or 'false'. If false, write the correct statement.

Food vacuoles are present in amoebas.

Which of the following process refers to the intake of food by an organism?

Digestion of starch occurs in _____. (mouth / oesophagus)

Describe the mouthparts of a mosquito.

In what ways butterflies are different from insects?

Name one single-celled animal.

Cross (x) out the wrong words in the brackets to make a correct statement.

(Amoeba/Crab) is a single-celled animal.

Select the feeding organ of lions.

a. Teeth

b. Claws

c. Piercing mouth part

d. Spongy tongue

Select the feeding organ of hawks.

a. Piercing-sucking

b. Chewing 

c. Beaks and claws

d. Proboscis

Select the feeding organ of the frogs.

a. Beak

b. Sticky tongue

c. Sucking tube

d. Proboscis

Name the feeding organ of butterfly.

Choose the correct one.

The body organs that help animals in getting their food. (Feeding organs/Respiratory organs)

Frogs have a proboscis.

A frog _____ its food whole. (suck/swallow)