AJANTA PUBLIC SCHOOL

SESSION: 2024-2025
CLASS-5
SCIENCE WORKSHEET
CHAPTER-1 (PLANTS: INCREASING THE NUMBERS)
Source based questions.

Q1. Read the following passage and answer the following questions.

Seeds are an important source of food. All the grains that we eat are seeds, for example, rice, wheat,
gram, kidney beans and peas. Some of the spices we use, for example coriander, mustard and cumin are
also seeds. Seeds are of different shapes and sizes, some seeds like castor, datura, mango are big while
seeds of mustard, cardamom, cumin are very small. Seeds have germinated by getting all the necessary
conditions and they take food from their seed leaves.

a. Identify the following seeds and write their names.

b. Which of these seeds have smooth texture, write ‘S’, for flat surface write ‘F’ and for round, write
‘R’.

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c. When a baby plant is attached to the seed leaves and does not get soil, water, then how will it get
food for the germination?
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d. The farmer grows paddy in his field, but he finds some other plants have also grown. How does it
happen?
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Open ended questions.

Q1. Answer the following questions.
1. If you plant the stem of a mango tree in the ground, will it grow into a new plant? Why, or why not?
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1. If we boil some gram seeds and try to germinate them. Write down whether they germinate or not
and why.

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2. Bajra is mostly grown in the state of Rajasthan. Give me the reason why it is so?
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Picture based questions.

Q1. Identify the following parts of a seed and name them.

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Q2. Name different dispersal methods of seeds.

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Q3. Many seeds are not fully grown even after being separated from the parent plant. Write down any of
the two reasons.
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS

Mathematical question.
Q1. Two farms harvested a lot of broccoli heads during the 5 weeks in the broccoli season. The following
bar graph shows the number of broccoli heads they pick per week. Use this information to answer the
questions.

i. How many broccoli heads were picked by both farms in these 5 weeks?

ii. How many broccoli heads did Farm 2 pick in week 1?

iii. The farms get Rs. 5 per 10 Broccoli heads. How much money did the 2 farms earn in the first 3
weeks?