(a) List four fibres. Give their sources and use in your daily life.
(b) How does a farmer know that cotton fibre on the plant is mature and ready to be plucked?

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(a) The four fibres are as follows:

Cotton: It is obtained from cotton plants. Cotton is a part of our daily lives. Apart from making many kinds of fabric, it is used for filling mattresses, quilts, pillows and for making threads.

Jute: It is obtained from the stem of the jute plant. Jute yarn is used to make the gunny sacks in which rice is stored and sold. Fashionable shopping bags and table mats and even beads and jewellery made from jute are sold in the market.

Wool: It is extracted from furry animals like sheep and rabbits. It is used to make sweaters which protect us from cold weather.

Silk: It is obtained from silk worms. Silk is used to make fabric.
(b) When the seed pods of a cotton plant ripen, they open up. When this happens, a farmer knows that cotton fibre on the plants is ready to be plucked.

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Across
1. cotton fibre without the seed
4. using needles to make fabric from wool
5. In summer, we like to wear only clothes made from this material.
7. long, shiny plant fibre, made into ropes and gunny bags
8. man made material
9. fine thread made from fibre
11. type of soil on which cotton grows well
14. Indian spinning wheel
15. another name for hairy covering of animals
18. process of changing fibre into yarn
20. process of separating cotton fibre from seed
23. long piece of cloth wound around the head by Indian men
24. cleaning, straightening and untwisting cotton fibres
26. soft, expensive, natural fabric
Down
1. cloth is woven on these
2. a common synthetic material
3. another word for fine threads
4. special name given to handspun, handwoven cotton cloth in India
5. fibre obtained from Kashmir goat
6. fibres from plants and animals
10. process of pulling apart raw cotton fibres and cleaning them
11. seed pods of cotton plant
12. animal source of angora wool
13. process of changing yarn to fabric
16. animal home made of fine silk threads
17. name for handmade cloth
19. unstitched cloth worn by Indian women
20. animal whose hairy coat gives us a very soft wool
21. parts of jute plants used to get fibres
22. fibre from husk of the coconut
25. machine used to separate cotton fibres from seeds
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Below is a list of plant fibres. From which part of the plant these are obtained

(a) coir

(b) hemp

(d) jute

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(a) List four fibres. Give their sources and use in your daily life. (b) How does a farmer know that cotton fibre on the plant is mature and ready to be plucked?

(a) List four fibres. Give their sources and use in your daily life.
(b) How does a farmer know that cotton fibre on the plant is mature and ready to be plucked?