Class 2 EVS Plants and Animals Worksheet
Class 2 EVS · Grouping plants and animals · 60 questions with answers
Where Class 1 named plants and animals, Class 2 groups them - and grouping needs a reason, which is the actual skill being built. A child who can say a cow is a herbivore has learned a label; a child who can say why a lion's teeth are different from a cow's has learned the idea underneath it.
- Group animals as herbivore, carnivore or omnivore and give a reason.
- Group plants as trees, shrubs, herbs and creepers.
- Match an animal to the place it lives and say why it suits.
Exercise 1 of 5 · 16 questions
Write H for herbivore, C for carnivore and O for omnivore.
Write the answer · Warm-up
Here’s one done for you
Cow → H. Herbivores eat only plants, carnivores eat only meat, omnivores eat both. Cows eat grass alone, so H. Bear and crow eat both, so O - those two catch children out most.
- 1)Cow
- 2)Lion
- 3)Bear
- 4)Goat
- 5)Tiger
- 6)Crow
- 7)Deer
- 8)Dog
- 9)Rabbit
- 10)Cat
- 11)Elephant
- 12)Sparrow
- 13)Horse
- 14)Leopard
- 15)Buffalo
- 16)Fox
Answers
- 1) H
- 2) C
- 3) O
- 4) H
- 5) C
- 6) O
- 7) H
- 8) O
- 9) H
- 10) C
- 11) H
- 12) O
- 13) H
- 14) C
- 15) H
- 16) O
Exercise 2 of 5 · 12 questions
Write T for tree, S for shrub, H for herb and C for creeper.
Write the answer · Guided
Here’s one done for you
Mango → T. Trees are tall with a hard woody trunk. Shrubs are shorter with many woody stems from the ground. Herbs are small with soft green stems. Creepers spread along the ground or climb. Feel the stem if you can - soft means herb.
- 1)Mango
- 2)Rose
- 3)Mint (pudina)
- 4)Money plant
- 5)Neem
- 6)Tulsi
- 7)Banyan
- 8)Hibiscus
- 9)Coriander (dhania)
- 10)Grapevine
- 11)Peepal
- 12)Jasmine
Answers
- 1) T
- 2) S
- 3) H
- 4) C
- 5) T
- 6) S
- 7) T
- 8) S
- 9) H
- 10) C
- 11) T
- 12) S
Exercise 3 of 5 · 10 questions
Match the animal to where it lives.
Match the pairs · Practice
- 1)Fish
- 2)Camel
- 3)Polar bear
- 4)Monkey
- 5)Frog
- 6)Lion
- 7)Duck
- 8)Earthworm
- 9)Bat
- 10)Crocodile
Answers
- 1) Fish - water
- 2) Camel - desert
- 3) Polar bear - very cold snowy places
- 4) Monkey - forest and trees
- 5) Frog - near ponds, both land and water
- 6) Lion - forest and grassland
- 7) Duck - ponds and lakes
- 8) Earthworm - in the soil
- 9) Bat - caves and dark places
- 10) Crocodile - rivers and swamps
Exercise 4 of 5 · 10 questions
Answer in one line - this is about why, not just what.
Write the answer · Challenge
Here’s one done for you
Why does a duck float easily? → Its feathers have oil on them so they do not get soaked, and its webbed feet push water. Give the reason, not just the fact - 'because it is a water bird' is not an answer, it is the question repeated.
- 1)Why does a camel not need to drink water often?
- 2)Why can a fish not live on land?
- 3)Why do birds have light, hollow bones?
- 4)Why do plants need sunlight?
- 5)Why does a polar bear have thick fur?
- 6)Why do a lion's teeth differ from a cow's?
- 7)Why do ducks float easily on water?
- 8)Why do roots grow downwards into the soil?
- 9)Why does a cactus have spines instead of leaves?
- 10)Why can a monkey climb trees so easily?
Answers
- 1) It stores fat in its hump and loses very little water, so it can go a long time without drinking.
- 2) It breathes through gills, which only work in water - it cannot take in air the way we do.
- 3) So that they are light enough to fly.
- 4) To make their own food - plants cannot eat, so they make food using sunlight, water and air.
- 5) To keep it warm in the very cold places where it lives.
- 6) A lion has sharp pointed teeth for tearing meat; a cow has flat teeth for grinding grass.
- 7) Their feathers have oil so they do not get soaked, and their webbed feet push the water.
- 8) To hold the plant firmly in the soil and to reach the water stored there.
- 9) Spines lose far less water than leaves, which matters in a desert.
- 10) It has long arms and a strong grip, and its tail helps it balance.
Exercise 5 of 5 · 12 questions
Which part of the plant do we eat? Write root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit or seed.
Write the answer · Practice
- 1)Radish
- 2)Cabbage
- 3)Broccoli
- 4)Wheat
- 5)Sugarcane
- 6)Tomato
- 7)Carrot
- 8)Spinach
- 9)Cauliflower
- 10)Rice
- 11)Potato
- 12)Mango
Answers
- 1) Root
- 2) Leaf
- 3) Flower
- 4) Seed
- 5) Stem
- 6) Fruit
- 7) Root
- 8) Leaf
- 9) Flower
- 10) Seed
- 11) Stem
- 12) Fruit
While your child works
- The 'why' exercise is the one that matters most and the one most likely to be skipped. It is the first time EVS asks for a reason rather than a name, and that habit is exactly what Class 6 Science later demands.
- Bear and crow are the omnivores children most often mark wrong, because both feel like they should belong to one group. Both genuinely eat plants and meat.
- For plant groups, feel the stem where you can. Soft and green means herb; hard and woody means tree or shrub. It settles in seconds physically and takes weeks from a page.