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h 1: Sources of Food

Class VI
We Will Learn About
Food
Food Varieties
Social Diversity of Food
Food Ingredients
Food from Plants
Food from Animals
Classification of Animals Based on the Food They Eat
Food
Living organisms require food for the following purposes.
To perform various activities
To protect the body from diseases and keep it healthy
To repair injured body parts
To Reproduce
We eat different types of food. There is a lot of variety in the food
available to us. People living in different parts of our country eat
different types of food. They eat different food items at different
times of the day.
Food Ingredients
Materials that are used to prepare
food items are called ingredients.
Food items may have one ore more
ingredients
Water, Milk, Sugar, Tea leaves

Spices, Rice, Chicken, Lemon etc.


Food from Plants
Green plants are called
producers because they can
produce their own food. Plants
give us many food items like:
 Fruits – Banana, Grapes,
Mango
 Vegetables – Carrot, Spinach,
Cabbage
 Cereals – Wheat, Rice, Maize
 Oil – Mustard, Sunflower, Soya
bean
 Spices – Turmeric, Cardamom,
Fennel
 Sugar
 Beverages – Tea, Coffee
Food from Animals
Animal give us many food items
like:
 Milk
 Milk Products
 Eggs
 Meat
 Seafood
 Honey
Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores
• Herbi= plant; • Carni= Meat; vore= • Omni= All; vore= eater
vore= eater. eater • They have both sharp
• They have sharp and • They have sharp, teeth like carnivores
broad front teeth or pointed and curved and flat teeth like
incisors to bite leaves canines to tear flesh. herbivores. The sharp
and grass. They have They have flat teeth at teeth are present in
flat teeth at the back the back to chew flesh front of the mouth and
of the mouth for and bones the flat teeth are
chewing. usually present behind
the sharp teeth
Scavengers are animals that consume
dead organisms that have died from
causes other than predation or have
been killed by other predators.

Decomposers are organisms that break


down dead or decaying organisms; they
carry out decomposition, a process
possible by only certain kingdoms,
such as fungi.

Parasitism is a close relationship


between species, where one organism,
the parasite, lives on or inside another
organism, the host, causing it some
harm, and is adapted structurally to
this way of life.

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