Chapter 3 Fibre To Fabric

Question 1. Which one of the following food item does not provide dietary fibre?

(a) Whole grains

(b) Whole pulses

(c) Fruits and vegetables

(d) Milk

Question 2. Which of the following sources of protein is different from others?

(a) Peas

(b) Gram

(c) Soyabeans

(d) Cottage cheese (paneer)

Question 3. Which of the following nutrients is not present in milk?

(a) Protein

(b) Vitamin C

(d) Calcium

(d) Vitamin D

Question 4. Read the food items given below:

(i) Wheat

(ii) Ghee

(iii) Iodised salt

(iv) Spinach (palak)

Which of the above food items are “energy giving foods”?

(a) (i) and (iv)

(b) (ii) and (iv)

(c) (i) and (ii)

(d) (iii) and (iv)

Question 5. Read the following statements about diseases.

(i) They are caused by germs.

(ii) They are caused due to lack of nutrients in our diet.

(iii) They can be passed on to another person through contact.

(iv) They can be prevented by taking a balanced diet.

Which pair of statements best describe a deficiency disease?

(a) (i) and (ii)

(b) (ii) and (iii)

(c) (ii) and (iv)

(d) (i) and (iii)

Question 6. Given below are the steps to test the presence of proteins in a food item:

(i) Take a small quantity of the food item in a test tube, add 10 drops of water to it and shake it.

(ii) Make a paste or powder of food to be tested.

(iii) Add 10 drops of caustic soda solution to the test tube and shake well.

(iv) Add 2 drops of copper sulphate solution to it.

Which of the following is the correct sequence of the steps?

(a) i, ii, iv, iii

(b) ii, i, iv, iii

(c) ii, i, iii, iv

(d) iv, ii, i, iii

Question 7. Which part of the jute plant is used for getting jute fibre?

(a) Flower

(b) Stem

(c) Fruit

(d) Leaf

Question 8. Yarn is woven to get fabric using

(a) charkha

(b) spinning machines

(c) looms

(d) knitting needles

Question 9. Beera is a farmer. His field has black soil and the climate is warm. Which fibre yielding plant should he grow in his field?

(a) Jute

(b) Cotton

(c) Coconut

(d) Wool

Question 10. The correct sequence to get cloth is :

(a) fibre fabric yarn

(b) fibre yarn fabric

(c) fabric yarn fibre

(d) yarn fibre fabric

Question 11. Boojho wants to make yarn from fibre at home. Which of the following will he use to carry out the task?

(a) Powerloom

(b) Handloom

(c) Charkha

(d) Knitting needles

Question 12. Yarn, fabric and fibres are related to each other. Show the relationship by filling the blanks in the following sentence.

Fabric of cotton saree is made by weaving cotton_ _ _ _ _ _which in turn is made by spinning thin cotton _ _ _ _ _ _.

Question 13. Some terms related to fabrics are jumbled up and given below. Write them in their correct form.

(a) onttoc

(b) sinnping

(c) vingwea

(d) bisref

Question 14. State whether the following statements are true or false. If false, correct them.

(a) Silk is a plant fibre.

(b) Jute is obtained from the leaves of a plant.

(c) Weaving is a process of arranging two sets of yarn together.

(d) Cotton yarn on burning gives an odour similar to that of a burning paper.

Question 15. Once, Paheli visited a tailor shop and brought home some cuttings of fabric to study their properties. She took two pieces and found that one of the pieces were shrinking when it was burnt with a candle. However the other did not shrink on burning. Can you help her to find out which of the two was a cotton fabric and which a silk fabric?

Question 16. One way of making fabric from yarn is weaving, what is the other?

Question 17. In ancient times stitching was not known. People used to simply drape the fabrics around different parts of their body. Even today a number of unstitched fabrics are used by both men and women. Can you give four such examples of clothes?

Question 18. Match the articles given in Column I with the articles of Column II

Column I

(a) Sweater

(b) Cotton bolls

(c) Dhoti

(d) Gunny bags

Column II

(I) Cotton

(ii) Wool

(iii) Ginning

(iv) Jute

Question 19. Fill in the blanks to complete the life story of cotton fibre.

My parents, cotton plants were grown in _______soil and _____- climate. The plants bore fruits called ______ . I, the cotton fibre was separated from seeds in the cotton bolls by the process of ______. Other cotton fibres and myself were made into yarn by the process of ______. The yarn was _______to give beautiful colours and then_______to get cotton fabric.

Question 20. Match the terms given in Column I with the statements given in Column II.

Column I

(a) Weaving

(b) Knitting

(c) Spinning

(d) Ginning

(e) Fibre

(f) Yarn

Column II

(i) A single yarn used to make a fabric

(ii) Combing of cotton fibres to remove seeds

(iii) Yarns are made from these thin strands

(iv) These are spun from fibres and then used to make fabrics

(v) Process of arranging two sets of yarns together to make a fabric

(vi) Process of making yarn from fibres

Question 21. Fill in the names of useful items made from jute fibres in Fig. 3.1. One such example is given.

Question 22. A cotton shirt, before it reaches you, completes a long journey. Elaborate this journey starting from cotton bolls.

Question 23. Describe the two main processes of making fabric from yarn.

Question 24. A cotton shirt, before it reaches you, completes a long journey. Elaborate this journey starting from cotton bolls.

Question 25. Describe the two main processes of making fabric from yarn.