Short Notes Food: Where Does It Come from, Different Type of Animals (For CBSE, ICSE, IAS, NET, NRA 2022)
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- To prepare a food we need different kinds of ingredients like to cook vegetable curry we need different kinds of vegetables, salt, spices oil and so on
- Plants and animals are the two sources of our food materials
- Milk, egg, meat, chicken, fish, prawn, beef, pork etc. are the food products that we get from animals
- Grain, cereals, vegetables and fruits comes from plants and plants products
- We eat leafy vegetables fruits and some parts of plants like stem and roots.
- Honey bees collect nectar from flowers, convert it into honey and store it in their hive. Flowers and their nectar may be available only for a part of year so, bees store their nectar for their use throughout the year
Different Type of Animals
| Herbivores | Animals which eat only plants and plant products are called herbivores. For example: Elephant, rabbit, horse, cow etc. |
| Carnivores | Animals which eat other animals are called carnivores. For example: lizard, Lion, tiger, crocodile etc. |
| Omnivores | These animals eat both plants and animals. For example: Dog, cat, crow, etc. |