Nutrition in Plant and Animals Worksheet-7

Nutrition in Plant and Animals Worksheet-7

1. Parasites are:

(a) Organisms which prepare food on their own

(b) Organisms which break glucose into alcohol and carbon dioxide

(c) Organisms which draw nutrition from living tissues of plants and animals

(d) Plants which kill insects for their food

2. Carnivorous plants:

(a) Kill insects

(b) Perform anaerobic respiration

(c) Contain alimentary canal

(d) All of these

3. When you eat, I mix your food with chemicals made by your body, and then I churn up your food into smaller parts.

What am I?

(a) Liver                                         (b) Pancreas

(c) Gall bladder                            (d) Stomach

4. Digestion starts from _____ and ends at ______.

(a) Mouth, small intestine          (b) Mouth, large intestine

(c) Mouth, stomach                     (d) Mouth, rectum

5. Dentine is:

(a) Hard, protective covering on the tooth

(b) The cavity which contains nerves and blood vessels in a tooth

(c) The soft, invisible covering present in a tooth

(d) The nerve that connects tooth and with the gums

6. Plaque is:

(a) Hard, protective covering on the tooth

(b) Soft covering of the tooth which is present below the visible part

(c) The cavity which contains nerves and blood vessels in a tooth

(d) Sticky film of food, saliva and bac­teria near the gums

7. Which of the following convert(s) nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use?

(a) Rhizobium

(b) Mycorrhiza

(c) Chemicals present in the soil convert atmospheric nitrogen to the form usable by plants

(d) Both Mycorrhiza and Rhizobium

8. The digestion of food in amoeba is:

(a) Intracellular                            (b) Intercellular

(c) In the pseudopodia                (d) None of these

9. Two foods having lots of starch are

(a) Potato and wheat                   (b) Bread and milk

(c) Meat and banana                   (d) Butter and groundnut

10. Leguminous plants have their roots modified into:

(a) Fibrous roots                          (b) Stilt roots

(c) Nodulated roots                      (d) Prop roots

Answer Key:

1. (c)
2. (a)
3. (d)
4. (a)
5. (a)
6. (d)
7. (d)
8. (a)
9. (a)
10. (c)