NCERT CLASS 6TH SCIENCE

CHAPTER 1: components of food

MULTIPLE CHOICE BASED QUESTIONS

1. What are the nutrients that body should contain?

a. The body should contain only carbohydrates
b. The body should contain only fats
c. The body should contain only proteins
d. The body should contain carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and
minerals
Answer: d: The body should contain carbohydrates, fats, proteins,
vitamins and minerals.
Justification: The body should contain carbohydrates, fats, proteins,
vitamins and minerals. In addition, food contains dietary fibers and
water which are also needed by our body

2. The carbohydrates found in our food in the form of

a. Proteins
b. fats
c. starch and sugars
d. vitamins and minerals

Answer: starch and sugars

Justification: The human body uses carbohydrates in the form of glucose.
Starch and sugars are stored in the liver and the muscles and is a readily available
source of energy for the body.
3. Vitamin A keeps-
a. Teeth healthy
b. Skin and eyes healthy
c. Heart and kidney healthy
d. All the above
Answer: b. skin and eyes healthy
Justification: vitamin A is fat-soluble vitamin and an
essential nutrient for animals. Thus the vitamin A keeps
skin and eyes healthy
4. Which vitamins helps to fights against many diseases
a. Vitamin E
b. Vitamin A
c. Vitamin D
d. Vitamin C
Answer: vitamin C
Justification: vitamin C improves the absorption of non-heme iron, the type
of iron found in plant food hence the vitamin C helps to fight against many
diseases
5. Vitamin D contain-
a. carbohydrates
b. calcium
c. fats
d. proteins
Answer: calcium
Justification: vitamin D contain calcium for our teeth and bones.
6. In the following which is carbohydrate rich
a. Rice
b. wheat
c. Vegetables
d. Fruits
Answer: Rice
Justification: rice has zero fats and very low sugar, and is
consumed as stable food in different forms globally. Starch is
the major carbohydrate found in rice.
7. Dietary fibers are also know as-
a. carbohydrates
b. vitamin rich
c. Roughage
d. fibers
Answer: Roughage
Justification: Dietary fibers are needed for the movement of
undigested waste material in the body. It is also called roughage.
8. Roughage, why it is needed to our body-
a.it is an essential component of our food and to its bulk
b.it provides carbohydrates to our body
c.it provides fats to our body
d.it provides vitamins to our body
Answer: it is an essential component of our food and to its bulk
Justification: Roughage does not provide any nutrient because it
is an essential component of our food and to its bulk.
9. What are the symptoms caused by deficiency of vitamin B1
a. weakness
b. Weak bones and tooth decay
c. Week muscles and very little energy to walk
d. Bones become weak
Answer: week muscles and very little energy to walk
Justification: deficiency of vitamin B1 will cause beriberi disease
then it shows symptoms like week muscles and very little energy to
walk
10. What is obesity?
a. A condition occurs due to excess accumulation of fat
b. A condition occurs due to excess accumulation of protein
c. A condition occurs due to excess accumulation of carbohydrates
d. None of these

Answer: A condition occurs due to excess accumulation of fat

Justification: Obesity is generally caused by eating too much and
moving too little. If you consume high amounts of energy,
particularly fat and sugars, but don't burn off the energy through
exercise and physical activity, much of the surplus energy will be
stored by the body as fat.