Practicing with SCERT Class 6 Basic Science Notes and Kerala Syllabus 6th Standard Basic Science Model Question Paper Set 1 English Medium English Medium will help students prepare effectively for their upcoming exams.
Class 6 Basic Science Model Question Paper Set 2 English Medium
Activity 1
a) Bibin was completing a table of difference between animal cell and plant cell. Help him to complete.
b) Name the micro oraganisms given below?
c) How can you observe these micro organisms that cannot be seen by naked eye?
Answer:
a) 
b) (i) Amoeba
(ii) Euglena
c) Using Microscope
Activity 2
a) Observe the figure. These are two hibiscus plants. What the ways in which pollination may occur in this plants.
b) In which plants the pollination occurs through the wind?
c) Draw and label the parts of Gynoecium.
Answer:
a) Here pollination can occurred through two ways self pollination and cross pollination
b) Paddy, Wheat, maize, Sugarcane
c) 
Activity 3
Analyse the picture
a) What is the source of energy here?
b) Which is the chemical change indicated in the picture.
c) Note down the energy change during this chemical change
Answer:
a) Sunlight
b) The picture indicates the process of preparing food by green plants. The plants absorbs sunlight prepare food using water and carbondioxide
c) Light energy → Chemical energy
Activity 4
a) Which gear would be the slowest?
b) How many times does the (iv) the gear rotated when (i) gear is rotated once?
c) What is a gear?
d) When the (i) gear is turned to the left, in which direction does the (iii) gear turn?
Answer:
a) (i)st gear
b) More than one
c) Gears are the interloking of coorugations on the wheels that enables one to rotate with the other.
d) iii rd gear left turned
Activity 5
I didn’t wash the vegetables after chopping
a) Is it advisable in wash vegetables after chopping them?
b) It is better to cover the vessel while cooking vegetables. Why?
c) Name the non nutrient factors
d) Prepare a food chart of balanced diet
Answer:
a) No, It is not advisable to wash vegetables after chopping them. Wash them properly before chopping.
b) Yes, when vegetables are cooked, the vitamin C in them dissolves in steam. It goes out of the vessel with the steam. So it is better to cover the vessel while cooking them.
c) Water and fiber
d) 
Activity 6
a) Complete the below given illustration
b) Name different ecosystems
C) Name two decomposers?
d) What happens if there is no decomposers?
Answer:
b) Sacred groves, paddy fields, forest
c) Bacteria, Fungs
d) Decomposers are very important for any ecosystem. If there weren’t in an ecosystem, the plants would not get essential nutrients, dead matter and waste would piled up. Decomposers are essential to break down the waste of the organisms.
Activity 7
a) Arun brought the poles of a magnet nearer to each other like this what happens?
b) What are the situations of attraction and situations of repulsion
c) Rama works in a workshop specialising in iron works. Is it possible to collect iron dust from workshop? How help Rama to collect.
Answer:
a) (i) When like poles comes nearer to each other, it repels
(ii) When unlike poles comes nearer to each other. It attracts
b) Situations of attraction : N-S, S-N
Situations of repulsion: N-N, S-S
When like poles brought nearer to each other it repels and unlike poles
c) Wrap a magnet using cloth or paper and drag it along the floor of workshop. A black powder is sticking on to it. This black powder is iron dust.
Activity 8
a) How will you separate the following mixtures
i) Iron powder and sulphur powder
ii) Muddy water
iii) Chalk powder and water
b) Aruna and Binitha are neighbours. The well of Aruna’s house is close to the septic tank of Binitha’s house. Is there any chance for the water in the well to get contarninated.
c) Complete the concept map by writing the methods employed to separate the constituents of a mixture and lite examples
Answer:
a) (i) Using magnet / Magnetic separation
(ii) Decantation
(iii) Filtration
b) Yes, there is a chance of contamination, The untreated wastewater of septic tank contains pathogens and harmful substances which directly get into the well water.
c) Separation of salt from sea water.
Activity 9
Hardness of bones is due to the presence of calcium phosphate
a) Some note are with in calcium what are they?
b) In adults weakening of boncs are common give reason
c) Write down the first aid for bone fracture
d) Complete the concept map
Answer:
a) Vegetables like ash gourd, snake guard fruits like guava, Jambu etc. Milk, egg and small fishes
b) In adults calcium required by the body is absorbed from the bones. this causes weakening of bones.
c) → Cool the affected area by applying an ice pack or ice tubes wrapped in a clean cloth.
→ Help the patient get into a comfortable position
→ Encourage them to rest
→ Broken parts should not be moved
d) 