Short & Long Questions: Food, Health and Diseases | Eureka Plus Class 5: Book Solutions, Notes & Worksheets PDF Download

Short Answer Questions

Q1: What is a balanced diet?
Ans: A diet that has the right amount of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals.

Q2: Name a food item rich in carbohydrates.
Ans: Rice.

Q3: Why do we need proteins in our diet?
Ans: Proteins help in the growth and repair of our body.

Q4: What is the importance of vitamins and minerals?
Ans: They help our body remain healthy, fight diseases, and grow properly.

Q5: Why is water important for our body?
Ans: Water is a major part of our blood, helps regulate body temperature, aids digestion, and removes waste from the body.

Q6: What is malnutrition?
Ans: When our diet lacks essential nutrients for a long time, it leads to malnutrition.

Q7: How can diseases spread?
Ans: Diseases can spread through air, water, food, insects, or direct contact with a sick person.

Q8: Name a communicable disease mentioned in the text.
Ans: Cholera.

Q9: What does a vaccine contain?
Ans: A vaccine contains weakened or dead germs of a certain disease.

Q10: How can we prevent the spread of germs from flies and mosquitoes?
Ans: By keeping our surroundings clean and using mosquito nets.

Long Answer Questions

Q1: Explain the importance of a balanced diet in simple words.
Ans: A balanced diet provides our body with the right nutrients like carbohydrates for energy, proteins for growth and repair, and vitamins and minerals to stay healthy. It helps our body function properly and keeps us strong.

Q2: Describe how water is essential for our body.
Ans: Water is crucial for our body as it is a major component of our blood, regulates body temperature, aids in digestion, and helps remove waste from our body. When we lose water through sweat and urine, we feel thirsty, and drinking water replenishes what our body needs.

Q3: What are communicable diseases, and how do they spread?
Ans: Communicable diseases are those that can be passed from a sick person to a healthy person. They can spread through air, water, food, insects, or direct contact with a sick person. For example, tuberculosis spreads through air when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

Q4: Explain the prevention measures for malaria and dengue.
Ans: To prevent malaria, avoid stagnant water, introduce fish into ponds, and use mosquito nets. Dengue prevention includes not allowing water collection and using mosquito nets to avoid mosquito bites.

Q5: Describe the symptoms and prevention measures of COVID-19.
Ans: COVID-19 symptoms include fever, dry cough, sore throat, and difficulty in breathing. Prevention measures include wearing face masks, maintaining distance, avoiding crowded places, washing hands frequently, and covering the mouth and nose while coughing or sneezing.

Q6: What are non-communicable diseases, and give an example.
Ans: Non-communicable diseases do not spread from person to person. An example is heart disease. These diseases are not caused by germs but can be influenced by factors like diet and lifestyle.

Q7: Explain the concept of malnutrition and how it can be cured.
Ans: Malnutrition occurs when our diet lacks essential nutrients over a long time, making a person weak. It can be cured by having a balanced diet that provides all the necessary nutrients in the right amounts.

Q8: Describe the role of vaccines in preventing diseases.
Ans: Vaccines help our body develop immunity against specific diseases by introducing weakened or dead germs into our system. This prepares our body to fight against disease-causing germs, providing protection.

Q9: What are deficiency diseases? Provide an example and its cure.
Ans: Deficiency diseases occur when the body lacks essential nutrients. An example is scurvy, caused by a lack of vitamin C. It can be cured by eating foods rich in vitamin C, like oranges and strawberries.

Q10: Explain how flies and mosquitoes can spread diseases.
Ans: Flies and mosquitoes can spread diseases when they carry germs from garbage and dirt to food. For example, house flies can spread diseases like diarrhoea and typhoid. Mosquitoes can carry germs causing diseases such as malaria and dengue.