Food Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The sticky rice of Assam is Bora rice.

Bora rice (bora saul) is a glutinous, sticky rice grown in Assam. It is used to make traditional foods such as pithas and is soaked and eaten as a snack during festivals such as Bihu.

Arborio is an Italian short-grain rice used in risotto, Bomba is a Spanish rice used in paella, and Ponni is a variety grown widely in Tamil Nadu. None is Assam's sticky rice.

Answer: B

The correct matching is A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I.

• Cumin seeds are small but fragrant (A-IV).
• Saffron gives a yellow colour to food (B-III).
• Chillies originated in South America and were brought to India by the Portuguese (C-II).
• A clove, the dried flower bud, looks like a small nail (D-I).

Option A gives cumin the nail shape and clove the fragrance, reversing them; options C and D misplace chillies and saffron.

Answer: C

The objective is to develop understanding with the help of observation and examples related to our experiences in place of abstraction.

NCF 2005 and the EVS syllabus want children to learn about their environment by connecting it with their own lives. Following how aam papad is made at home, a familiar process, lets children understand processes such as drying and preserving food, and value everyday skills, through concrete experience rather than abstract definitions.

Knowing how aam papad is made is the content of the lesson, not a general objective of EVS teaching. Explaining the labour needed to make an object, or how things are made from the natural environment, are narrower outcomes; the general aim the lesson serves is learning from experience.

Answer: C

The answer is Both I and II are true.

Anaemia is a shortage of haemoglobin, most often caused by a lack of iron in the diet. Haemoglobin carries oxygen in the blood, so an anaemic child's body and brain receive less oxygen. Such children tire easily, have low energy and may not grow properly, which is what statement I says.

Statement II is also true. Besides its physical effects, anaemia reduces attention, concentration, memory and learning, so it affects children's mental performance and school work as well as their physical health. Neither statement is false.

Answer: D

The group of roots is Carrot, Beetroot, Radish.

Carrot, beetroot and radish are all swollen taproots that store food.

Each other group contains a stem. Potato is a stem tuber, and ginger and turmeric are rhizomes, underground stems with nodes and buds. Sweet potato is a root, but turmeric in the same group is a stem, so only the last group is made entirely of roots.

Answer: B

The correct match is A-V; B-I; C-II; D-III.

• Hongkong: cooked snakes (V)
• Kerala: boiled tapioca with curry (I)
• Kashmir: fish cooked in mustard oil (II)
• Goa: sea fish cooked in coconut oil (III)

Chholay bhature (IV) is a north Indian dish not linked to any of the four places. The other options swap Kerala with Goa or Kashmir.

Answer: A

The most suitable sub-theme is cooking food and eating with family.

EVS in the early classes starts from the child's immediate experience and widens outwards in later classes. For Class III, the theme Food is approached through what children see at home: who cooks, how food is cooked and eating together with family.

The other sub-themes reach beyond the Class III child's immediate world. What carnivorous animals eat, why food gets spoiled, and how food travels from farm to market involve wider ideas, about animals, microbes and markets, that the EVS books take up in later classes as the child's environment expands.

Answer: B

The group rich in iron, according to the key, is Amla, Spinach, Jaggery.

Spinach and other green leafy vegetables, and jaggery, are the standard examples of iron-rich foods in school lessons on nutrition. Amla contains some iron and is rich in vitamin C, which helps the body absorb iron from plant foods; the key counts it with them.

The other groups each contain a food that is not counted as an iron source: tomato in the first and third groups, and cabbage in the third and fourth. Only the second group avoids both, which is why it is the answer.

Answer: C

Chillies were brought to India by traders from South America.

Chilli peppers are native to the Americas, where they had been grown for thousands of years. After Europeans reached the Americas, Portuguese traders brought chillies to India in the sixteenth century, and they spread so widely that they are now central to Indian cooking.

Afghanistan, England and South Africa are not where chillies came from. Before chillies arrived, the pungency in Indian food came from black pepper and long pepper, which are native to India.

Answer: A

(A) and (B) both are correct.

Bora (bora saul) is a sticky, glutinous variety of rice commonly grown and eaten in Assam, used in snacks and festive dishes. Paddy grows best in clayey soil, which holds water, and needs a lot of water; the fields are often kept flooded.

Since both statements are true, the options calling either one wrong are incorrect.