📌 Snapshot
- Health, nutrition, time, space and Indian textile crafts explained with tables, worked examples and case MCQs.
- Part A: what health means, how nutrition and infection feed each other, and how food becomes unsafe.
- Part B: managing time and space, from work curves and peak load to ten principles of planning a home.
- Part C: cotton, silk and wool centres, tie and dye, ikat and the embroideries of each region, in one view.
📖 Detailed Notes
Written and reviewed by Anjali Sharma, Biology & Home Science faculty at UniDrill (M.Sc. Botany, Banaras Hindu University · 8 years teaching). Based on NCERT Home Science Class XI (Human Ecology and Family Sciences Part I), Chapter 7.
One family, three everyday worries
Picture a family in a small town. The child has frequent loose motions and looks thin, the mother is always short of time between the fields, the kitchen and the cow shed, and the grandmother's wedding shawl is being passed on to the next bride. Health, resources and heritage: this chapter takes these three concerns in turn. Part A is nutrition, health and hygiene. Part B is the management of two resources, time and space. Part C is the textile traditions of India.
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Q1. According to the World Health Organisation, health is:
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Answer: B
Health covers three dimensions, physical, mental and social, and goes beyond the absence of disease. Option A is the narrow view the definition rejects, and C and D describe only parts of health.
Q2. A child with a high fever is first seen at the village health centre, then sent to the district hospital, and finally to a large hospital for advanced diagnostic support and intensive care. The three levels of care used in order are:
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Answer: C
The first level of contact is primary, referral to specialised or district hospitals is secondary, and specialised intensive care with advanced diagnosis is tertiary. The other orders reverse at least two levels.
Q3. Which grouping of nutrients is correct?
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Answer: B
Fat, protein, carbohydrate and fibre are macronutrients. Iron, zinc, selenium and vitamins are micronutrients, so options A, C and D each place a nutrient in the wrong group.
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Q4. In India, undernutrition among the poor exists alongside overweight and obesity with diet related chronic diseases. This situation is called:
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Answer: B
The coexistence of deficiencies and diet related non communicable diseases is the double burden of malnutrition. The other terms are not the label used for this combination.
Q5. A village child receives enough dal and rice but suffers repeated bouts of diarrhoea and remains underweight. Which statement best explains why?
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Answer: B
Nutrition and infection are closely linked: infection wastes nutrients and reduces appetite while requirements rise. Option A is false, C confuses over and undernutrition, and D contradicts the vicious circle in which poor nutrition lowers resistance.
Q6. Assertion (A): Iodine deficiency is a serious threat to young children and pregnant women. Reason (R): Iodine deficiency can cause goitre, still birth, miscarriage and cretinism.
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Answer: A
The listed outcomes, goitre, still birth, miscarriage in women and deaf mutism, mental retardation and cretinism in children, are exactly why it is a serious threat, so R explains A.
Q7. Cooked rice kept at room temperature through a hot afternoon is unsafe mainly because:
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Answer: B
Improper storage allows disease causing microbes to multiply in the favourable temperature range. The other options describe changes that do not make cooked rice unsafe.
Q8. A student gets 150 g of bajra and 150 g of raw milled rice on two days. Using the values 8.0 mg and 0.7 mg of iron per 100 g respectively, what is the extra iron she gets from bajra for the 150 g portion?
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Answer: B
Bajra gives $8.0 \times 1.5 = 12.0$ mg and rice $0.7 \times 1.5 = 1.05$ mg, so the difference is $10.95$ mg. Option A forgets the scale factor, C is the per 100 g bajra value and D is only the bajra total.
Q9. Which of the following is NOT one of the four tools of time management in the chapter?
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Answer: D
The four tools are peak load period, work curve, rest or break periods and work simplification. Grouping is a space planning principle.
Q10. On the work curve, the plateau of maximum ability to do work is marked at:
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Answer: C
The segment a to b is the warming up period, c is the plateau of maximum ability and d is the maximum fall due to fatigue. So only c is correct.
Q11. A flat is planned with the kitchen opening next to the toilet, and a bedroom whose windows face a blank wall. Which two principles of space planning are mainly violated?
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Answer: A
The kitchen should be away from the toilet (grouping), and rooms need light and ventilation (sanitation). The other pairs may be affected a little but are not the main faults described.
Q12. Match the silk centre with its product. List I: (i) Varanasi (ii) Kanchipuram (iii) Paithan (iv) Baluchar. List II: (p) Gold inlay saree in tapestry weave (q) Kinkhwab brocade (r) Saree with epic scenes on the pallav and mango motif (s) Brocade saree with dark colours and bird and animal motifs
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Answer: A
Varanasi is known for kinkhwab, Kanchipuram for dark coloured brocade with bird and animal motifs, Paithan for gold inlay tapestry weave and Baluchar for the Butedar pallav with epic scenes and mango motif. The other options swap at least two pairs.
Q13. Match the textile art with its region. List I: (i) Phulkari (ii) Kasuti (iii) Kantha (iv) Chikankari. List II: (p) Bengal (q) Punjab (r) Uttar Pradesh (s) Karnataka
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Answer: A
Phulkari is from Punjab, kasuti from Karnataka, kantha from Bengal and chikankari from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. The other options misplace at least two of the four.
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