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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?
(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.
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
C.
(iii) both a and b
Which of the following does not yield wool?
Yak
Camel
Goat
Woolly dog
D.
Woolly dog
What is meant by the following terms?
(i) Rearing
(ii) Shearing
(iii) Sericulture
(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.
(ii) Sericulture: Sericulture refers to the rearing of silkworms to obtain silk.
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