This document contains a Home Ecology Grade 6 term 1 test with questions testing knowledge of families, environments, nutrition, and healthy living guidelines. The test includes multiple choice questions about the definition of family, components of the near environment, interactions with the near environment, nutrients like starch and calcium, and the function of fiber. It also includes fill-in-the-blank and matching questions about developing life skills to help oneself and others, practical crafts, nutrients, and food and nutrition guidelines including eating a variety of food and drinking clean water.
This document contains a Home Ecology Grade 6 term 1 test with questions testing knowledge of families, environments, nutrition, and healthy living guidelines. The test includes multiple choice questions about the definition of family, components of the near environment, interactions with the near environment, nutrients like starch and calcium, and the function of fiber. It also includes fill-in-the-blank and matching questions about developing life skills to help oneself and others, practical crafts, nutrients, and food and nutrition guidelines including eating a variety of food and drinking clean water.
This document contains a Home Ecology Grade 6 term 1 test with questions testing knowledge of families, environments, nutrition, and healthy living guidelines. The test includes multiple choice questions about the definition of family, components of the near environment, interactions with the near environment, nutrients like starch and calcium, and the function of fiber. It also includes fill-in-the-blank and matching questions about developing life skills to help oneself and others, practical crafts, nutrients, and food and nutrition guidelines including eating a variety of food and drinking clean water.
This document contains a Home Ecology Grade 6 term 1 test with questions testing knowledge of families, environments, nutrition, and healthy living guidelines. The test includes multiple choice questions about the definition of family, components of the near environment, interactions with the near environment, nutrients like starch and calcium, and the function of fiber. It also includes fill-in-the-blank and matching questions about developing life skills to help oneself and others, practical crafts, nutrients, and food and nutrition guidelines including eating a variety of food and drinking clean water.
1. Choose the correct answer. Write the correct letter only.
a) Which statement defines the term family? A. Family is the people that live with you and care for you. B. Family is only your parents. C. Family can be your friends at school. D. Family is all your relatives even those that live far away. b) Your near environment includes … A. the global community, which means everyone in the whole world. B. the people that you come into contact with directly at school and in the town or village. C. only your relatives. D. people in your town or village that you don’t know. c) You interact with your near environment when you … A. play a ball game with your neighbours. B. write a letter to a friend who lives in another town. C. make supper for your family. D. bath your baby sister. d) Which nutrient forms part of carbohydrates? A. vitamin C B. animal fat C. starch D. calcium e) The function of fibre in the body is to … A. provide energy. B. grow new cells. C. build bones. D. prevent constipation. f) Calcium is found in … A. butter. B. milk. C. oranges. D. maize. (6)
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2. Copy and complete the sentences by filling in the missing words. a) In Home Ecology you learn things that will help to ______ your own life and the lives of your ______. b) You will develop practical living ______ that will help to improve the ______ of your family life and of your near environment. c) You will learn about the Namibian way of life and how to become a valuable ______ of your community. (5)
3. Name TWO of the practical crafts that you can learn to do in Grade 6. (2)
4. Name the five nutrients. (5)
5. a) Match each space in Column A with a word from Column B. Write
down only the matching numbers and letters, for example 1 K. (10) Column A Column B Food and Nutrition Guidelines Words
1. Eat a _____ of food. A. salt
2. Eat vegetables and _____ every day. B. three
3. Eat more _____. C. alcohol
4. Eat _____ or meat regularly. D. weight
5. Use _____ products. E. water
6. Use only iodised _____, but use less salt. F. beans
7. Eat at least _____ meals a day. G. fruit
8. Avoid drinking _____. H. wholegrain
9. Consume clean and safe _____ and food. I. variety
10. Achieve and maintain a healthy body _____. J. fish
b) Two of the ten guidelines refer to lifestyle issues. Name them. (2)
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Home Ecology Grade 6 Permission is granted to photocopy this page