In a kitchen, we can see a variety of activities. Let us observe a kitchen for some time. Write your observations and the questions that come to your mind in the table given below. The kitchen picture on page 114 — redrawn. I Observe I Wonder The food is getting cooked. How is it being cooked?

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Look carefully at the kitchen picture on page 114. A woman is stirring food in a kadhai on the stove. A man is chopping cucumber and tomatoes on a board. There is a covered vessel on the counter and sunlight coming in through the window.

Here is the table filled in. The first row is the book's example.

I Observe	I Wonder
The food is getting cooked.	How is it being cooked?
The stove has a flame under the pan.	Where does the flame come from? What is burning?
Steam is rising from the hot food.	Why does food give off steam when it gets hot?
The man's hand moves the knife and the vegetables get cut.	How is his hand able to move like that?
Sunlight is coming in through the window and lighting up the kitchen.	Can sunlight do any other work besides giving light?

Your own table may have other rows — a mixer running, a fridge humming, a light burning. Any true observation is correct.

What all these rows have in common: in every single row, something is happening. Food gets hot. Steam rises. A hand moves. A room lights up. Nothing happens by itself. Something must make it happen — and that something is called energy. That is exactly the question this chapter answers.

Try this at home: Stand quietly in your kitchen for two minutes with a pencil. Write down five things you see happening. Then, next to each one, write the question it makes you ask. That is what a scientist does — notice first, wonder second.

NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 7 What is Energy? — In-text Question