done 6th Social Science From Gathering To Growing Food

• question_answer1)
  Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time?  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer2)
  Look at the table given below. If Neinuo wanted to eat rice, which are the places she should have visited?   Grain and Bones                                                                                   Sites   Wheat, barley, sheep, goat, cattle                                     Mehrgarh (in present day Pakistan)  Rice, fragmentary animal bones                                       Koldihwa (in present-day Uttar Pradesh)  Rice, cattle (hoof marks on clay surface)                         Mahagara (in present-day Kashmir)  Wheat and lentil                                                                    Gufkral (in present-day Kashmir) Wheat and lentil, dog, cattle, sheep, goat, buffalo,         Burzahom (in present-day Kashmir) Wheat, green gram, barley, buffalo, ox                             Chirand (in present-day Bihar)  Millet, cattle, sheep, goat, pig                                             Hallur (in present-day Andhra Pradesh)  Black gram, millet, cattle, sheep, pig                                Paiyampalli (in present-day Andhra Pradesh)    These are just some of the sites from which grain and bones have been found.
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer3)
  Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later?  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer4)
  State whether true or false: (a) Millets have been found at Hallur.   (b) People in Burzahom lived in rectangular houses.   (c) Chirand is a site in Kashmir.   (d) Jadeite, found in Daojali Hading, may have been brought from China.  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer5)
  List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer6)
  Make a list of all the animals mentioned in the table (page 25 of NCERT Textbook). For each one, describe what they may have been used for.
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer7)
  List the cereals that you eat.  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer8)
  Do you grow the cereals you have listed in answer no. 7? If yes, draw a chart to show the stages in growing them. If not, draw a chart to show how these cereals reach you from the farmers who grow them.  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer9)
  Can you think of any reasons why the dog was perhaps the first animal to be tamed?  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer10)
  1. Do you think hunters-gatherers would have made and used pots? Give reasons for your answer. 2. Apart from food, what are the other things that could have been obtained from animals? 3. What are the animals used for today?
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer11)
  Make a list of all the activities performed by men in tribal societies. What do women do!  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer12)
  Are there any activities that are done by both men and women?  
  View Answer play_arrow

• question_answer13)
  You are incharge of a small plot of land and have to decide what food crops to grow. What are the plants you could choose? Where would you get the seeds from? How would you plant them? How would you look after the plants? And when would they be ready for harvesting?
  View Answer play_arrow