LOOKING AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES [4 marks Question-Answer]

It is important to avoid wasting food to protect the environment. Wasting food means wasting money and useful resources of nature. Certain germs and mosquitoes start growing on waste foods, which is unhealthy. There are many ways to reduce food waste at home, like
→ We can ask our elders to cook the less amount of food.
→ Taking as much food as we can eat.
→ Sharing the food with street dogs, cows in our area.
→ Storing the food in air tight containers to keep it fresh.

These foods can be cooked in various forms like
→ Rice is used to make kheer, biryani and it is served with rajma beans, dal, kadhi, etc.
→ Wheat is used to make chapati, puri, kachori, etc.
→ Bajra is used to make khichri.
→ Cabbage is used to make manchurian.
→ Ragi is used to make chapati, baked biscuits, etc.

Food comes from both the plants and animals.
The food we get from the different parts of plants are given below
→ We get food like cabbage and coriander from the plant leaves.
→ We get food like carrots and radish from plant roots.
→ We get fruits mango and apple from the plant.
→ We get food like milk, cheese, ghee, eggs and meat from the animals like cow, buffalo, hen and goat.