ch 3 : Fibre to Fabric

                                                              Fibre to Fabric

 

Question: 1 - You must be familiar with the following nursery rhymes

a. ‘Baa baa black sheep have you any wool’.

b. ‘Mary had a little lamb. whose fleece was white as snow’.

Answer the following question.

(a) Which parts of the black sheep have wool?

Answer - The skin of black sheep have wool.

(b) What is meant by the fleece of the lamb?

Answer: Fleece means hair of the lamb.

Question:2 - The silkworm is (a) caterpillar (b) a larva choose the correct option.

(i) a (ii) b (iii) both ‘a’ and ‘b’ (iv) neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’

Answer: (b) both 'a' and 'b'

Question: 3 - Which of the following does not yield wool?

(a)Yak

(b) Camel

(c) Goat

(d) Woolly dog

Answer: (d) Woolly dog

Question: 4 - What is meant by the following terms?

(a) Rearing

(b) Shearing

(c) Sericulture

Answer:

(a) Rearing: Taking care of animals including feeding, grazing, breeding, etc. for meat, and other useful products.

(b) Shearing –The removal of wool from the sheep is called shearing.

(c) Sericulture - The rearing of silkworm for obtaining silk is known as sericulture.

Questions: 5 - Give below is sequence of steps in the processing of steps in the processing of wool which are the missing steps? Add them.

Shearing _________ Sorting _________ _______________.

Answer: Shearing   Scouring  Sorting  Colouring   Spinning

Question: 6 - Make sketches of the two stages in the life history of the silk moth which are directly related to the production of silk.

Answer-

Question:7 - Out of the following which are the two terms related to silk production.silk production.

a. Sericulture

b. Floriculture

c. Moriculture

d. Apiculture and

e. Silviculture

Answer: (a) Sericulture and (b) Moriculture are related to silk production.

Question: 8 - Match the following