EVS

CLASS-V
BY-DIVYA GOGIA
REVISION MODULE-1
Topic covered- Food making in plants
Q.1.What is photosynthesis?
Ans.The process by which green plants
make their own food.
 Q.2.Name the things
required for the process.
WATER AND CARBON CHLOROPHYLL SUNLIGHT
MINERALS DIOXIDE
Q.3.Identify
1-5 in the
given
picture.
Ans

• 1- Sunlight
• 2-Carbondioxide
• 3-Water and minerals
• 4-Oxygen
• 5-Starch
 Q.4. Why non – green
plants are not able to carry
out photosynthesis?
• Ans. Due to the absence of chlorophyll in
them, they are not able to carry out
photosynthesis.
Q.5. Fill in the blanks to complete
the word equation of
photosynthesis-
• Ans
Sunlight Chlorophyll

• Carbon dioxide + Water and minerals --------> Food (glucose) + Oxygen

Q.6.Observe
the video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_q8
GPl3bE
 • Ans. Iodine solution is reddish –
brown in colour. The portion of
bread over which this iodine
What did solution was put, turned blue-
you observe? black in colour. Reason- Starch in
bread changed the colour of
iodine solution into blue-black.
Q.7.What is
autotrophic
nutrition?
Ans Auto - self
• Trophic – feed
• Chlorophyll present
Prepares food
themselves by the process of Photosynthesis
( Autotrophs)
• Eg. Green plants
Q.8.What is
heterotrophic
nutrition?
Ans.Hetero – others

Trophic – feed

Lacks chlorophyll

depends on
autotrophs for food
 Q.9.Differentiate
between saprophytic
and parasitic plants.
Ans
Saprophytic Parasitic
They obtain food They obtain food
(nutrients) from dead (nutrients) from another
and decaying plants and living plants.
animals.
Q10. Is
mushroom a
parasitic plant?
Why/Why not?
Ans
No, it is a saprophytic plant as it feeds on dead
plants and animals.
 Q11. Give reason –
Insectivorous plants can
photosynthesize still they feed
on insects.
Ans
They grow in soil that is poor in minerals
especially nitrogen. Nitrogen is very important
for the growth of the plant. Hence to get this
essential mineral, it feeds on insects.
Q12. Identify the plant
• I have two lobes that are joined at the
center. I have long, sharp spines. I feed
on insects.
• My leaves are modified into a container
with a lid. I have hair inside me. I feed
on rats and insects.
 Ans

• Venus
flytrap
• Pitcher
plant
Q13. Identify these insectivorous plants
 Ans

Venus flytrap

Pitcher plant
Q14. How do the • Pitcher plant
following plants
obtain their food? • Venus flytrap
Ans
Pitcher plant
Pitcher (Container with a lid)

Has hair inside

Prey sits on the pitcher

Lid gets closed

Prey inside gets trapped

The prey gets digested by the digestive juices produced by the plant
Ans
Venus flytrap
Two lobes ( modified leaves)
(Edges ---> long, sharp spines)

Prey sits on it

Lobes get closed

Insect gets trapped

The prey gets digested by the digestive juices produced by the plant
 Q15. Categorise the following into correct
columns.

Carnivores Herbivores
   
Lion Gazelle Antelope Zebra Buffalo Wolf Cheetah
  Koala North-American Pronghorn

 
Ans

Carnivores Herbivores

   
Wolf, Cheetah, Zebra, Buffalo,
Lion Koala, Gazelle,
  Antelope, North-
American
  Pronghorn
Q16. What is the
function of
decomposers?
Ans

Decomposers break down the complex substances

in (dead organisms) into simpler substances.
Q17. What is a food
chain?
Ans
The dependence of one animal over another for food is called
food chain. Transfer of energy takes place in form of food
through a series of organisms.
Eg Grass  Deer  Lion

Grass is a producer which is eaten by deer (primary consumer)

which is further eaten by a lion (secondary consumer).
Q18. Why all food chains
begin from plants?
Ans
Green plants are the only living organisms that
can prepare their own food by the process of
photosynthesis. All other organisms are
directly/indirectly dependent on plants.
Hence, all food chains begin from plants.
Q19. What is a food
web?
Ans
Network of inter -connected food chains is called food web.
 Desert

Q20. Name a
food chain
that exists in Grassland

the following
ecosystems -
Aquatic
Ans
There are many food chains
that exist in different
ecosystems
a) Desert
b) Grassland
c) Aquatic
Q21. What would happen in the following
cases?

If the number of plants decrease If the number of animals

on Earth. decrease on Earth.
Ans
a) If the number of plants decrease on Earth.
It will become difficult for animals/humans to survive. There
will not be enough supply of food and oxygen for all.

b) If the number of animals decrease on Earth.

It will affect the food chain. There will not be enough
carbondioxide available for plants to carry out photosynthesis.
Q22. What steps have been
taken by government to
protect wildlife?
Ans
• Indian wildlife act was started in 1972 for wildlife protection.
• Government banned hunting and poaching providing legal
protection to wildlife.
• Government has set up wildlife sanctuaries and national
parks to protect the endangered species.
Q23. What is poaching?
Ans
Poaching – killing of animals
illegally for skin, fur etc.
 Q24. What are endangered
species? Give one example.
Ans
Endangered species – organisms that are on
the verge of getting extinct (Completely
finished from earth).

Eg. Asiatic lion