Food: Where does it come from ? - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
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Q1: There is a lot of variation in the food eaten in different regions of India.True/ False
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True
Q2: State the chief food of South India
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Dosa, Idli, Sambhar
Q3: State the chief food of South India
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Paw bhaji, and sea foods
Q4: The chief food of Gujarat is ______________
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Thepla and dhokla
Q5: Name the two ingredients involved in cooking of rice.
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Raw rice and water
Q6: Some food items are cooked with many ingredients. True/ False
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True
Q7: Give example of food items that are cooked with many ingredients.
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Vegetable curry, dal etc.
Q8: What are the ingredients used in making roti?
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Atta and water
Q9: Name the sources of our food products.
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Plants and animals Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals
Q10: List the source which provides us with egg.
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Animal, that is chicken
Q11: List the source which provides us with honey.
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Animal that is honey bees
Q12: Grains are animal product or plants product?
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Plants product
Q13: Cream, ghee, butter and curd are animal product or plants product?
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Animal product
Q14: Enlist the products that we get from plants.
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Grain, cereals, vegetables and, fruits comes from plants and plants products.
Q15: Enlist the products that we get from animals.
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Milk and milk products, egg, meat, chicken, fish, prawn, beef, pork etc. are the food products that we get from animals.
Q16: Name some other animals apart from cow that gives us milk.
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Goat, camel, buffalo etc.
Q17: We don’t eat leafy vegetables. True/ False
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False
Q18: We eats_________________ , stem and _________________ of some plants.
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Roots, stem and flowers
Q19: Some plants have two or more__________________ parts.
Flower Honey bee collect nectar from different flowers, mix it with a secretion from their mouth and convert it into honey. Bees store this honey in their bee hives.
Q22: Where does honey bee lives?
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In bee hives
Q23: All animals have same food and feeding habit. True/ False
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False
Q24: Plant eating animals are called______________________.
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Herbivores
Q25: Carnivores feed on both plants and animals. . True/ False
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False
Q26: Give two examples of herbivores.
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Cow, buffalo, goat, deer etc.
Q27: Give two examples of carnivores.
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Lion, tiger, leopard etc.
Q28: Give two examples of omnivores.
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Human beings, rat etc.
Q29: We get sugar from______________________.
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Plants
Q30: A deer eat only plant product and so, it is called _____________________.
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Herbivores.
Q31: Parrot eats only_________________ product.
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Plant
Q32: Which of the following animals consumes only liquid food?
Vulture
Butterfly
Lizard
Squirrel
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Ans: b.Butterfly Vulture are scavengers only eat the dead bodies. Lizard and Squirrels are carnivores or insectivores,they eat meat or insects. Butterfly drink nectar from flowers through their tongues,which function much like straws.
Carnivores.
Q33: To do work and for growth all living being need
Work
Energy
Fat
Sleep
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b. Energy
Q34: Our body uses energy that we got from food
to produce oxygen
to produce oxygen
to produce carbon dioxide
to grow plants
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b. to produce oxygen Food contains nutrients required by our body to get energy for activity,growth and all functions of the body.
Q35: Why does our body need food
To produce oxygen
food contains nutrients required by our body to get energy for activity,growth and all functions of the body
To cook food
For photosynthesis
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b
Q36: Each living species requires
same kind of food
grass as food
different kind of food
flesh as a food
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c
Q37: Which of the following food items are energy giving foods
Wheat and Spinach
Ghee and Spinach
Wheat and ghee
Iodised salt and Spinach
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c
Q38: Leaving food unconsumed in meals causes
Prevention to wastage of food
Environment conversation
Energy loss
Wastage of food
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d
Q39: What do we call every individual’s habit to of eating a peculiar type of food items generally?
Food wastage
Food habit
Obesity
Food Variety
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b
Q40: Different food contains different
Contents
Energy
Ingridents
Salt
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c
Q41: In general milk, fruits, bread are taken in
Dinner
Afternoon
Breakfast
Lunch
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c Healthy breakfast combines good carbs and fiber with some protein.
Q42: Many cultures hold some____preferences and some ____taboos.
big, small
bad, bad
good, good
food, food
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d. food, food
Q43: Identify the two common sources of most of the ingredients of food items that we eat.
Plants and Animals
Rice and water
Salt, Spices, Leaves
Meat and spices
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a. Plants and Animals
Q44: Food is essential for all the living organisms
Plants
Animals
Human
All of the above
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d. All of the above Food is essential for all the living organisms to get energy ,growth and for proper functioning of body.
Q45: Which of the following is not provided by plants
Spices
Oil
Cereals and pulses
Egg
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d. Egg Plants provide us with vegetables, fruits, cereals, pulses, spices, nuts, oils etc.Eggs are provided by animals.
Q46: Ingredients can be obtained from
Rain
Plant and animal sources
Sprout
Wastage of food
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b. Plant and animal sources Food comprises of ingredients. An ingredient is a part of mixture that is added to prepare a dish. Ingredients vary with different types of food. Ingredients can be obtained from plant sources and animal sources.
Q47: ____ and ____ are ingridents of boiled rice
Raw rice and Water
Water and salt
Mustard and Rice
Wheat and Rice
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a. Raw rice and Water Raw rice are boiled in water to make boiled rice.
Q48: Why are animals and plants important to us
Provide us carbondioxide
Provide us food
Provide us shelter
Provide us safety
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b. Provide us food Living being get their food for plants and animals depending their nature(herbivores,carnivores,omnivores). So they are important to us.
Q49: Plant which grows in water and is consumed as food.
Lotus
Water lily
Ginger
Potato
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a. Lotus Lotus plant is grown in water and its stems are consumed as food.
Q50: What are edible parts of plants
Fruits ,roots and leaves
Seeds
Flowers and Stem
All of above
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d. All of above Differnt edible plants have one or more than one different edible parts. For example Flowers-broccoli, Fruit-Tomatoes,Seed-Corn, Leaves-Cabbage, Roots- Carrot, Stem-Lotus etc.
Q51: _____and_____ are two plants with more than one edible parts
Radish, Bannana
Cabbage, Spinach
Walnut,Peanut
Carrots, Beet
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a. Radish, Bannana Raddish- leaves and root are edible. Bannana- Seed, stem, fruit are edible
Q52: Which of the below plant's stem is eaten
Sweet Potato
Turnip
Potato
Orange
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a. Sweet Potato The edible portion is an underground stem that is also a tuber. The "eyes" of the potato are lateral buds. Potatoes come in white, yellow, orange, or purple-colored varieties.
Q53: Two or more parts of the same plant are consumed as food.
Mustard
Tomato
Lady Finger
Carrot
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a. Mustard Mustard seeds and leaves are consumed as food.
Q54: Plants make their food themselves are called
are called Scavengers
are called hetrotrophs
are called autotrophs
are called herbivores
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c. are called autotrophs Plants generally make their own food through the process of photosynthesis. These plants are called autotrophs (self-feeding). However, some species have taken a different route for nourishment. These plants, called heterotrophs (other feeding), lack chlorophyll and cannot make their own food.
Q55: Which part of the plants we generally eat?
Stem
Fruits
Root
Leaves
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b. Fruits
Q56: Among normal seeds and sprouted seeds, from which do we get more energy?
Both normal seeds and sprouted seeds
Normal seeds
Sprouted seeds
None of above
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c. Sprouted seeds We get more energy from sprouted seeds than from normal seeds
Q57: Which of the following is not a stem of its parent plant?
Ginger
Potato
Sweet Potato
Onion
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c. Sweet Potato Sweet potato is not a stem of its parent plant as sweet potato is a modified root, while the rest are modified underground stems.
Q58: Energy providing food.
Carbohydrates and fats
Proteins
Vitamins
None of above
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a. Carbohydrates and fats Carbohydrates and essential fats, along with proteins, are macro-nutrients that provide the human body with its main source of energy needed for all bodily functions, including metabolic function. Carbohydrates are easy for the body to break down and use as an energy source, and essential fats are the most concentrated source of energy.
Q59: Body-building food
Carbohydrates and fats
Proteins
Vitamins
Minerals
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b. Proteins When we eat foods that are sources of protein, such as meat, milk, cheese, eggs, beans or peas, the digestive system first breaks down the food proteins into their amino acids, and after they are absorbed into the blood, enzymes in the body recombine them into certain sequences to produce the proteins suited to the body's special needs, such as making red blood cells or building muscles.So proteins are said to be building block of body.
Q60: Protective food
Carbohydrates and fats
Proteins
Vitamins and minerals
None of above
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c. Vitamins and minerals Vitamins and minerals are considered essential nutrients. Acting in concert, they perform hundreds of roles in the body. They help shore up bones, heal wounds, and bolster your immune system. They also convert food into energy, and repair cellular damage.Thats why they are called as protective food
Q61: Aquaculture includes rearing of
Fish
Crabs
Lobsters
All of the above
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d. All of the above Aquaculture includes rearing of fish, crabs, lobsters etc. Fish provide their meat for us. Fish can be marine or freshwater fish.
Q62: Milk called as complete food as
It has all the nutrients
It has calcium
It has minerals
It has vitamins
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a. It has all the nutrients Milk is rich in proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. It is called as complete food as it has all the nutrients.
Q63: Edible seed used as grains
Peas
Beans
Mustard
Rice
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d. Rice Peas, beans are pulses and mustard are oil-seeds.Rice is grain
Q64: Butter and cream are obtained from
Plants
Milk
Grains
Fruits
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b. Milk Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. Cream is also an dairy product composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, the fat, which is less dense, will eventually rise to the top.
Q65: Plant provide us with
Meat
Milk
Cheese
Grains
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Ans: d. Grains
Meat, Milk and Cheese are provided by animals.Plants provide grains, pulses, fruits, vegetable etc
Q66: Milk, curd, paneer, ghee
are made from plants
are unhealthy
are vegetables
are all animal products
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Ans: d. are all animal products We rear animals for their milk and meat. Milk is also used to prepare dairy products.
Q67: Cereals come from
Plants
Beehives
Birds
Animals
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Ans: a. Plants
Plants provide us fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses and cereals. Cerealsare edible seeds of plants
Q68: Flowers and fruits are consumed as a food
Sugarcane
Pumpkin
Ginger
Mushroom
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Ans: b. Pumpkin
Q69: Mushroom is
yellow in colour
nutritious leaves
non-green plant that we consume as food.
sweet fruit
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Ans: c. non-green plant that we consume as food
Q70: What part of carrot plant we eat
Fruit
Stem
Root
Leaves
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Ans: c. Root
Q71: What part of brinjal plant we eat
Fruit
Stem
Root
Leaves
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Ans: a. Fruit
Q72: What part of cabbage plant we eat
Fruit
Seed
Root
Leaves
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Ans: d. Leaves
Q73: What part of wheat plant we eat
Seed
Stem
Root
Leaves
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Ans: a. Seed
Q74: What part of potato plant we eat
Fruit
Stem
Root
Leaves
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Ans: b. Stem
Q75: Which of the following right describes the process involved in the preparation of ghee.
cow gives milk-cream is extracted-butter-butter is boiled and ghee is formed-cow
cow-cow gives milk-cream is extracted-butter-butter is boiled and ghee is formed
butter-butter is boiled and ghee is formedcow-cow gives milk-cream is extracted-cow
cow-cow gives milk-cream is extracted-butter-butter is boiled and ghee is formed
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Ans: d. cow-cow gives milk-cream is extracted-butter-butter is boiled and ghee is formed We rear animals for their milk and meat. Milk is used to prepare dairy products.Ghee is also prepared from milk.
Q76: Which of the following right describes the process involved in the preparation of honey
nector in flowers-nector is collected by honey bee-stored in beehives-honey is extracted from beehives
nector is collected by honey bee-nector in flowers-stored in beehives-honey is extracted from beehives
nector in flowers-nector is collected by honey bee-honey is extracted from beehives-stored in beehives
stored in beehives-honey is extracted from beehives-nector in flowers-nector is collected by honey bee
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Ans: a. nector in flowers-nector is collected by honey bee-stored in beehives-honey is extracted from beehives Honey is the food product obtained from honey bees. They collect nectar from different flowers, mix it with a secretion from their mouth and convert it into honey. Bees store this honey in their bee hives.Finally honey is extracted from beehives.
Q77: Use of honey
Acne
Cold and Cough
Healing wound
All of the above
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Ans: d. All of the above Honey is natural healing agent that has been used for centuries as a topical antibiotic.
Q78: Chilli grows as which part of the plant?
Root
Stem
Fruit
Flower
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Ans: c. Fruit
Q79: Mustard leaves are used as
Roots
Vegetables
Flowers
Meat
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Ans: b. Vegetables
Q80: Two plants that produce sugar.
Sugarcane and sugarbeet
Beetroot and carrot
Mango and Lichi
Sugarcane and Lichi
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Ans: a. Sugarcane and sugarbeet
Q81: Eggs are rich source of
Vitamins
Fat
Minerals
Protein
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Ans: d. Protein
Q82: Which among the following is underground leaf
Onion
Cabbage
Spinach
Raddish
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Ans: a. Onion Onion is a form leaf which is underground.
Q83: Fruit used as nut.
Almond
Mango
Banana
Tomato
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Ans: a. Almonds Almonds are dry fruits used as nuts.
Q84: Which among below is Flesh eating animal
Deer
Horse
Parrot
Vulture
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Ans: d. Vulture Deer, Horse and Parrot are herbivores. They eat only plants to get energy.While Vulture is scavenger only eat the bodies of dead animals.
Q85: Plant eating animal is
Horse
Lion
Frog
Snake
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Ans: Lion ,Frog and snake are carnivores animals. Horse is herbivore eats only plants.
Q86: Animals who eat grass are called
Carnivores
Herbivores
Omnivores
Vulture
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Ans: b. Herbivores On basis of eating habits animals are categorised as carnivores, omnivores, herbivores. Herbivores are animals who depends on plants for their food.
Q87: Animals who eat both plants and animals are called
Carnivores
Herbivores
Omnivores
Scaventures
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Ans: c. Omnivores On basis of eating habits animals are categorised as carnivores,omnivores,herbivores. Omnnivores are animals who depends on both plants and other animals for their food.
Q88: ____ is carnivours animal
Crow
Monkey
Goat
Frog
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Ans: d. Frog Frogs are carnivores, and many species will eat any small animal they see (even if it's another frog). However they are herbivores when they start out as tadpoles.
Q89: _____ is omnivourous animal
Monkey
Cow
Snake
Goat
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Ans: a. Monkey Omnivores are animals which eat both plants and animals are called as omnivores.
Q90: _____ is herbivous animal
Lizard
Elephant
Snake
Tiger
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Ans: b. Elephant Herbivores are animals which eat only plants are called as herbivores.
Q91: Scavengers are animals
who eats grass
who only eats flesh of dead animals
who produce honey
who gives eggs
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Ans: b. who only eats flesh of dead animals Scavengers are animals who only eats flesh of dead animals.
Q92: Animals which eat both plants and meat
are called omnivours
are called carnivours
are called autotrophs
are called herbivores
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Ans: a. are called omnivours
Q93: Animals provide us with
Cereals
Grains
Eggs
Vegetables
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Ans:c. Eggs Cereals,grains and vegetables are provided by plants.
Q94: Food eaten by a buffalo includes
Oil Cakes
Birds
Prawns
Fish
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Ans: a. Oil Cakes
Q95: Animals which eats only grass and plants
are called omnivores
are called hetrotrophs
are called autotrophs
are called herbivores
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Ans: d. are called herbivores
Q96: Animals which eat flesh of other animals
are called Scavengers
are called carnivores
are called autotrophs
are called herbivores
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Ans: b. are called carnivores
Q97: A deer does not eat
Leaves
Fruits
Fish
Plants
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Ans: c. Fish Deer is herbivous animal
Q98: Hay and grains are eaten by
Cats
Tigers
Elephant
Buffaloes
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Ans: d. Buffaloes Hay is grass.legumes or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried andstored for us as fodder particularly for grazing animals such as cattles, horses,goats and sheep.