DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL

BOKARO STEEL CITY

ASSIGNMENT FOR THE SESSION 2020-2021
Class: VI Subject : Science & Tech. Assignment No. 1
Section – A : Physics

1. What is meant by classification? Write any three advantages of classification.

2. Select those objects from the following which shine:
Glass bowl, plastic toy, steel spoon, cotton shirt
3. Name five objects which can be made from wood.
4. Differentiate between good conductor and bad conductor of heat. Give two example of each.
5. Take a small cotton ball and place it in a tumbler/bowl filled with water. Observe it for at
least 10 minutes. Will it float or sink in water and why?
6. Differentiate among opaque, translucent and transparent materials, giving two example of
each.
7. During summer holidays, a group of children collected a lump of salt, green grass, broken
glass piece, a small thermocol box, pen, iron nail, glass marbles, hair, naphthalene ball, a
piece of sugar candy (mishri) and tried to group them on the basis of properties given in
Table below. Help them in filling the Table.
Name of the Appearances Transparency Floats/Sinks Soluble/inso
materials (Hard/Soft) (transparent/translucent/op in water luble in
aque) water

8. What is meant by magnetic and non-magnetic materials? Give two example of each.
9. Classify the object among magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
Plastic, aluminium, iron, wood, cloth, rubber, copper, steel.
10. Which among the following materials would you identify as insulating materials and why?
Ice, rubber band, leaf, iron, eraser, pencil, steel, aluminium, pearl, a piece of wooden board,
cooked rice, pulses and fresh chapatti
11. Write any three differences between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Mixture. Give two
examples of each.
12. Why do we need to separate different components of a mixture? Give twoexamples.
13. Define the following terms and where is it used?
a. Handpicking
b. Threshing
c. Winnowing
d. Sieving
14. How will you separate sand and water from their mixture?
15. You are provided with a mixture of salt, sand, oil and water. Write the steps involved for the
separation of salt, sand and oil from the mixture by giving an activity along with the
diagram.
16. What is meant by miscible and immiscible substances? Give two example of each.
17. Differentiate between unsaturated, saturated and supersaturated solution.
18. What is meant by solubility? How will you increase the solubility?
19. Why water is called universal Solvent?
20. What is meant by saturated solution? How will you convert saturated solution into
unsaturated solution?

Section – B : Biology

1. Why tea and coffee are said to be as refreshing drink?

2. How are autotrophs different from heterotrophs?
3. What happens when glucose gets oxidised during respiration? Explain your answer with the help
of an equation.
4. Write an activity to test the presence of starch in a given food material.
5. What is balanced diet? What are the factors on which composition of balanced diet depends?
6. Name the deficiency disease caused due to deficiency of protein and carbohydrate. Write two
symptoms of each.

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