Look at the pictures given above carefully. Write the names of these animals according to categories given in the table below.
Animals eating plants and leaves.
Answer – Elephant, Cow, Rabbit
Animals hunting other animals and eating them.
Answer – Cat, Tiger, Bear, Fox, Crocodile
Animals eating both plants and animals.
Answer – Crow, Bear, Fox,
Animals eating remains of dead animals.
Answer – Crow, Jackal
Something to Know
A. Fill in the blanks.
1. Snakes swallow their prey.
2. Giraffe feeds on plants only.
3. Frog has a sticky tongue.
4. Buffaloes nibble their food first and then chew it.
5. Butterfly suck its food.
6. Squirrel has sharp front chisel like teeth.
B. Match the following:
1. snake b. frog
2. monkey c. banana
3. lion d. deer
4. elephant a. sugarcane
C. Tick (✔) the correct option.
1. The animal, that eats both plants and animals, is the-
(a) tiger
(b) cow
(c) rat (✔)
(d) horse
Answer – (c) rat (✔)
2. Dog tears the flesh with-
(a) chisel teeth
(b) grinding teeth
(c) pointed teeth (✔)
(d) tube
Answer – (c) pointed teeth (✔)
3. Poultry birds should be fed with-
(a) green grass
(b) fresh fruits
(c) milk
(d) grains (✔)
Answer – (d) grains (✔)
4. It is a herbivorous animal.
(a) fox
(b) cow (✔)
(c) rat
(d) snake
Answer – (b) cow (✔)
D. Answer the following questions in brief.
1. What are carnivorous?
Answer – Animals which eat only other animals are called carnivorous.
2. Name the kind of teeth that help a cow to chew the grass.
Answer – Broad back teeth help a cow to chew the grass.
3. Name two animals which gnaw their food.
Answer – Two animals which gnaw their food are rat and rabbit.
4. Name the type of teeth that squirrels have. Name two more animals having the same type of teeth.
Answer – Squirrels have chisel teeth. Two animals having the same type of teeth are rabbit and rat.
E. Answer the following questions.
1. State one difference between herbivorous and omnivorous animals. Give one example of each type.
Answer – Herbivorous Animals.
The animals which only eat small plants or other parts of tree are called herbivorous animals.
Example – Cow, Giraffe, Deer.
The animals which feed on both plants and animals are called omnivorous.
Example – Bear, Some birds, dogs
2. How does a lizard take its food?
Answer – Lizard does not bite or chew food they catches their prey with the help of a sticky tongue. It open its mouth wide and Swallow its food.
3. Explain the term ‘chewing the cud”?
Answer – Some animals nibble their food and put it inside their body when they relax, they bring back part of food from inside to their mouth and chew it properly hence, this process is called ‘chewing the cud’.
4. Write any two ways that can help us in taking care of domestic animals. 5. How do butterfly and mosquito have their food?
Answer – Two ways that can help us in taking care of domestic animal are:
(i) Animal which give us milk need to be fed with grains, green fodder and lots of clean water.
(ii) The shelter of all these animals should be clean, dry and airy.
4. How do butterfly and mosquito have their food?
Answer – Butterfly and mosquitoes have long hollow tube like structure that helps them to suck their food.
Value Based Question
Shalu and her parents were returning home after their trip to Nainital. When they stopped their car at an ‘eating joint’ on the highway, a man came near them. He had a beautiful cage with two white pigeons in it. He asked them to buy the cage and the birds from him. When Shalu asked her parents to buy the cage and the pigeons, they did not agree to do so. On the way back, her mother explained to her the reason for their decision. Shalu realised that her parents were right. The pigeons, like all other birds, should be free to fly in the skies. She decided to tell her friends also that they should not buy birds, or other animals, that have been put in a cage.
1. State the values displayed by Shalu’s parents and by Shalu herself.
Answer – The values displayed by Shalu’s parents and Shalu herself are animal lovers, caring and loving.
2. Give in your own words, the reasons explained by Shalu’s mother, for their decision.
Answer – The reason was birds need to have their freedom and birds like to fly in the sky. So, keeping them in the cage and taking their freedom from them is a wrong thing.
3. Suggest the kind of food that can be given to birds like pigeons.
Answer – We can give grains, corn to the birds like pigeons.
Something to Do
Find names of animals from the given ‘puzzle box’. Put them in the correct columns.
Chewing food – Cow
Tearing food – Lion, Fox
Sucking food – Mosquito, Leech
Gnawing food – Rat, rabbit
Swallowing food – Snake