AP Board 3rd Class EVS Solutions 5th Lesson Food Keeps us Fit and Healthy

Andhra Pradesh AP Board 3rd Class EVS Solutions 5th Lesson Food Keeps us Fit and Healthy Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

AP State Syllabus 3rd Class EVS Solutions Lesson 5 Food Keeps us Fit and Healthy

I. Conceptual Understanding:

Question 1.
What will happen if we do not eat food ?
Answer:
If we did not eat food, we cannot play or work. To work, play, run etc. We need energy. Food gives us energy. We have to eat food to work, grow and stay alive.

Question 2.
Name the food items that can be eaten raw.
Answer:
Food items that can be eaten raw are carrot, cucumber, tomato, fruits, dates, sugar cane, nuts etc.

Question 3.
What is the importance of food ?
Answer:
Food provide nutrients to our body. Nutrients are substances that provide energy for activity, growth and all functions of the body. Nutrients (food) also improves the immune system.

II. Questioning and Hypotliesis:

Question 4.
What questions would you ask your mother to prepare Pulihora ?
Answer:

1. Maa what are the ingredients needed to prepare pulihora ?
2. What are the steps of making pulihora ?
3. Can I use Tamarind or Lemon ?
4. For 1/4 kg of rice how much of salt should be added ?

III. Experiments & Field Observations:

Question 5.
Soak some greengram for three hours in water. Drain the water, shift the soaked seeds into a wet cloth and tie tightly. Leave it over night. Open it the next day. What do you observe ?
Answer:
Student Activity.

IV. Information Skills & Projects:

Question 6.
Prepare a list of food you get from plants and animals in your area.

Answer:

S.No.	Food from Plants	Food from Animals
1.	fruits	1. meat
2.	vegetables	2. milk
3.	leafy vegetables	3. fishes, sea products
4.	nuts etc.	4. eggs etc.

V. Drawing Pictures and Model Making:

Question 7.
Draw your favourite fruits and vegetables.

Answer:
Students activity.

VI. Appreciation, values and creating awareness towards bio-diversity.

Question 8.
What good food habits would you suggest to your friends ?
Answer:
Good food habits that I suggest to my friends are

1. Wash your hands before and after eating.
2. Eat all the vegetables.
3. Chew the food well and eat slowly.
4. Sit properly while eating and do not spill food while eating.
5. Wash fruits and vegetables before eating or cooking.

Question 9.
Write two slogans on wastage of food.
Answer:

1. “Eat to live, Not live to eat”.
2. “A nation could eat off the food we waste”.

Additional Questions:

I. Conceptual Understanding:

Question 1.
Why do people of different age groups eat different food ?
Answer:

1. In infants teeth are absent, hence they are unable to chew the food. So, they eat either soft food or drink milk.
2. People who are old lose their teeth and cannot chew, they too eat soft food.
3. Young people can eat any kind of food.
   So, food habits change according to age.

Question 2.
Where do we get food ? Name some foods that we get from plants with examples.
Answer:
We get food from plants and animals.
Food that we get from plants are.

1. Vegetables : Examples are brinjal, drumsticks, cucumber, bottle guard, Ridge gourd etc.
2. Leafy vegetables : Amaranthus, drumstick leaves, spinach curry leaves etc.
3. Fruits : Apple, Orange, mango, grapes etc.
4. Grains : Rice, wheat, maize, millets etc.
5. Nuts : Cashew nuts, ground nuts, pea nuts etc.
6. Pulses : Redgram, green gram, black gram, etc.

Question 3.
What are the foods that we get from animals ?
Answer:

1. We get eggs, meat, milk from animals.
2. We also get different milk products like curd, ghee, butter cheese etc.
3. We also take sea animals like fish, prawns, crabs & snails as food.

Question 4.
Why do we eat cooked food ?
Answer:
The food gets soft and tasty when we cook. Cooked food easily gets digested.

Question 5.
On what factors the food habits of a particular place depend ?
Answer:
The food habits of a particular place depend on the crops grown and food items available in that place.

Question 6.
Identify the vegetables and write their names using the help box. brinjal, lady’s finger, bottle gourd, banana, cabbage, drumstick, beet root, apple, cauliflower, bitter gourd.

Answer:

Question 7.
Ask your mother and fill the following table.

Answer:
Student activity.

Question 8.
Match the following vessels and cooking method.

Vessel	Cooking method
1. Pan	a) roasting
2. Cooker	b) boiling & steaming
3. Grill	c) frying

Answer:
1. c
2. b
3. a

Multiple Choice Questions:

Question 1.
_______ is essential to live and work.
a) Food
b) Meat
c) Egg
d) None
Answer:
a) Food

Question 2.
Bees collect _______ from flowers.
a) comb
b) blood
c) nectar
d) all
Answer:
c) nectar

Question 3.
The most nutrient part of the plant is _______.
a) seeds
b) leaves
c) branches
d) veins
Answer:
b) leaves

Question 4.
Food gives us _______
a) energy
b) work
c) money
d) none
Answer:
a) energy

Question 5.
We get _______ from sugarcane.
a) jaggery
b) sugar
c) both a & b
d)none
Answer:
b) sugar

Question 6.
Mushroom is a _______
a) green plant
b) fungi
c) insect
d) none
Answer:
b) fungi

Question 7.
Food get _______ by cooking.
a) soft
b) tasty
c) both a & b
d)none
Answer:
c) both a & b

Question 8.
We get _______ from animals.
a) eggs
b) meat
c) milk
d) all the above
Answer:
d) all the above

Question 9.
Don’t _______ food.
a) eat
b) waste
c) digest
d) none
Answer:
b) waste

Question 10.
We get honey from _______
a) plants
b) animals
c) barks
d) honey comb
Answer:
d) honey comb