Animal Nutrition
Extra Questions
Very Short Answer Type:
Question 1: What is a carnivorous animal? Give two examples.
Answer: Animals, which eat the flesh of other animals, are called carnivorous, e.g. lion, tiger.
Question 2: What is the function of the digestive juice secreted by the liver?
Answer: The digestive juice from the liver breaks up fat into tiny particles. This works in favor of easier digestion of fat.
Question 3: Name the organs that make up the alimentary canal.
Answer: Mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum compose the alimentary canal.
Question 4: Name the four types of teeth.
Answer: The four types of teeth are: Incisors, Canines, Premolars and Molars.
Question 5: Name the four compartments in a ruminant’s stomach.
Answer: Four compartments in a ruminant’s stomach are: Rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum.
Choose the correct answer:
Questions 1: Movement of food through alimentary canal is called by which of these terms?
- Locomotion
- Peristalsis
- Pumping
- Sliding
Answer: (b) Peristalsis
Question 2: The liver produces which of these enzymes?
- Amylase
- Trypsin
- Lipase
- None of these
Answer: (d) None of these.
Question 3: Which of these is not a part of nutrition?
- Digestion
- Excretion
- Assimilation
- Egestion
Answer: (b) Excretion.
Question 4: Digestive juice is not secreted by which of these organs?
- Small intestine
- Liver
- Stomach
- Oesophagus
Answer: (b) liver
Question 5: The walls of the large intestine absorb which of these?
- Cellulose
- Digested food
- Oxygen
- Water
Answer: (d) Water.
Question 6: Which of the following is not a part of ruminant stomach?
- Reticulum
- Anus
- Omasum
- Abomasum
Answer: (b) Anus
Question 7: Bile is produced by which organ?
- Pancreas
- Gall bladder
- Liver
- Stomach
Answer: (c ) Liver
Match the following
Column A | Column B |
---|---|
(1) Villi | (A) Large intestine |
(2) Hydrochloric acid | (B) Liver |
(3) Bile | (C) Mouth |
(4) Absorption of water | (D) Stomach |
(5) Mastication | (E) Small intestine |
Answer: 1-E, 2-D, 3- B, 4- A, 5- C
Fill in the blanks
- Most of the enzymes in the small intestine come from ______
- The __________ present on our tongue help us to taste food.
- Saliva is secreted in the mouth by _______________
- Living organisms that cannot make their own food are called__________
Answer: (1) Pancreas, (2) taste receptor, (3) salivary gland, (4) heterotrophs
Write true and false
- Absorption and assimilation are similar processes.
- Some plants are heterotrophic and depend on others for food.
- Hydrochloric acid is present in the stomach.
- Pitcher plant is an example of insectivorous plant.
- Saprophytes are green in colour.
- Ruminants have a three-chambered stomach.
- An adult human has 32 teeth in all – 16 in each jaw.
- Tongue gives the sense of smell.
Answer: (1) F, (2) T, (3) T, (4) T, (5) F, (6) F, (7) T, (8) F