CBSE Class 6 Science Sample Paper Set 5

I. Very short answer type question: 

1. Name the major nutrients in our food.

2. Find the odd one out of the following: {Rose, Jasmine, Boat, Marigold, Lotus}

3. What are creepers?

II. Short answer questions: 

4. Define the following terms:

(a) Carnivores (b) Omnivores

5. What are ingredients? Give an example of ingredient.

6. Name the following:

(a) the nutrients that are needed for the growth and maintenance of our body.

(b) a vitamin required for maintaining good eye sight

7. What are natural & synthetic fibers & classify the following fibers as natural or synthetic - Nylon,Wool, Cotton, Polyester

8. Write two differences between transparent and opaque.

9. A bag of cement lying in the open gets wet due to rain during the night. The next day the sun shines brightly. Do you think the changes, which have occurred in the cement, could be reversed? Explain.

10. What is the function of a stem in a plant?

11. (a) Which kind of garbage is not converted into compost by red worms?

(b) Is garbage disposal the responsibility of the government? Justify

III. Short answer question: 

12. Name three plants and their parts we eat.

13. Name two foods each rich in:

(a) starch, (b) fats, (c) protein

14. Define the following term with examples:

(a) soluble, (b) luster

15. (a) Is it possible to separate sugar mixed with wheat flour? If yes how will you do it?

(b) What is winnowing? Where is it used?

16. How would you obtain clear water from a sample of muddy water?

17. Draw a labeled diagram of:

(a) Tap root (b) Flower

IV. Long answer question: 

18. (a) From which parts of the plant cotton and jute are obtained.

(b) Explain the process of making yarn from fibre.

OR

Define the following:

(a) Fabric (b) Fibre (c) Spinning (d) Weaving (e) Yarn

19. (a) Give examples to explain the difference between changes that can or cannot be reversed.

(b) A thick coating of a paste of plaster of paris (POP) is applied over the bandage on a fractured bone it becomes hard on drying to keep the fractured bone immobilized. Can the change in POP be reversed?

OR

Define the following:

(a) Contraction (b) Evaporation (c) Expansion (d) Melting (e) Condensation

20. (a) What do you do with the left over food at home?

(b) If you and your friends are given the choice of eating in a plastic plate or a banana leaf platter at

a party, which one would you prefer and why?

OR

(a) Write a story on how packaging increases the amount of garbage.

(b) Do you think it is better to use compost instead of chemical fertilizers? Why?

V. Activity based MCQ’s: 

21. Seeds in which a small white structure may have grown out of the seeds are called

(a) dehydrated seeds (b) hydrated seeds

(c) sprouted seeds (d) baked seeds

22. Which solution we use test the presence of starch in potato

(a) Copper sulphate solution (b) iodine solution

(c) Caustic soda solution (d) none of these

23. While testing for the presence of protein in a food item containing protein on adding copper Sulphate solution and caustic soda solution, the final colour which indicate the presence of protein, is

(a) Red (b) Blue

(c) Violet (d) Blue black

24. The colour of iodine solution changes to _____________ when comes in contact to potato.

(a) Reddish yellow (b) blue black

(c) light blue (d) milky

25. Yarns are made up of thin strands, these thin strands are made up of still thinner strands called

(a) Fabrics (b) Fibers

(c) Thread (d) Clothes

26. The process of arranging yarns together to make a fabric is called

(a) spinning (b) Ginning

(c) Weaving, (d) Sorting

27. Sugar is ________________ in water.

(a) soluble (b) insoluble

(c) immiscible, (d) none of these

28. Mustard oil ______________ with water

(a) mixes well (b) does no mix

(c) soluble (d) none of these

29. The process of separating insoluble solids from water using filter paper is called

(a) sedimentation (b) decantation,

(c) filtration, (d) evaporation

30. The process of conversion of water vapour into its liquid form is called

(a) sedimentation (b) decantation

(c) condensation (d) evaporation

31. A toy aero plane made by folding a piece of paper. This change

(a) can be reversed

(b) cannot be reversed

(c) sometimes can be reversed and sometime cannot be reversed

(d) none of these

32. Water comes out of the leaves in the form of vapour by a process called

(a) respiration (b) transpiration

(c) inhalation (d) exhalation

33. Roots _____________ the plants to the soil.

(a) anchor (b) disanchor

(c) both a and b (d) conduct

34. Bead like structures inside the ovary are called

(a) plumule (b) radicle

(c) stamen (d) ovules

35. The rotting and conversion of some materials into manure is called

(a) composting (b) fermentation

(c) canning (d) tanning

36. The method of preparing compost with the help of red worm is called

(a) Fermi composting   (b) Vermi composting

(c) Carbonization     (d) fraction distillation

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