TEXTBOOK ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS OF CBSE CLASS VII SCIENCE Chapter 3 Fibre to Fabric

1)
You must be familiar with the
following
nursery rhymes:
(i)
Baa baa black sheep, have you
any wool.
(ii)
Mary had a little lamb, whose
fleece was white as snow.
Answer
the following:
(a)
Which parts of the black sheep have wool?
(b)
What is meant by the white fleece of the lamb?
ANSWER: –     (a) Wool is obtained from the hairy fibres
(hair) of the sheep.
(b)
White fleece of the lamb refers to the white coloured hair of the lamb.
2)
The silkworm is (a) a caterpillar, (b) a larva. Choose the correct option.
(i)
a (ii) b (iii) both a and b (iv) neither a nor b
ANSWER:-iii)
both a and b
3)
Which of the following does not yield wool?
(i)
Yak (ii) Camel (iii) Goat (iv) Woolly dog
ANSWER 🙁
iv) Woolly dog
4)What
is meant by the following
terms?
(i)
Rearing (ii) Shearing (iii) Sericulture
ANSWER:-i)
Rearing: Rearing means helping someone to grow up.
(ii) Shearing: It is the process
of removal of fleece along with a thin layer of skin from the body of sheep.
(iii) Sericulture: Sericulture
refers to the rearing of silkworms to obtain silk.
5)
Given below is a sequence of stepsbin the processing of wool. Which are the
missing steps? Add them. Shearing, __________, sorting, __________,__________,
__________
ANSWER:-Shearing,
scouring, sorting, picking of burrs, dying of fibres, making of yarn
7)
Out of the following, which are the two terms related to silk production?
Sericulture,
floriculture,
moriculture, apiculture and silviculture

Hints:
(i) Silk production involves cultivation of mulberry leaves and rearing
silkworms.
(ii)
Scientific name of mulberry is Morus Alba.
ANSWER:-Sericulture
and moriculture





8)
Match the words of Column I with those given in Column II :
ANSWER:-
Column I                                  Column II
(i) Scouring                  (e) Cleaning sheared skin
(ii) Mulberry leaves     (c) Food of silk worm
(iii) Yak                       (b) Wool yielding animal
(iv) Cocoon                 (a) Yields silk fibres