Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in life-forms around you.
Examples of range of variations observed in daily life are:
(i) Variation in size: size of organisms can vary from microscopic bacteria to giant redwood trees (about 100 metres).
(ii) Variation in lifespan: lifespan varies from organisms to organisms i.e for bacteria it is of few hours whereas in case of large trees it can be thousands of years .
(iii) Variation in body colour: most of the organisms (insects, flowers, birds) show a vast range of colours to attract and protect from predators.
How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?
Explain the basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms.
Explain how animals in Vertebrata are classified into further subgroups.
Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?
How do gymnosperms and Angiosperms differ from each other?
What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
Which do you think is a more basic characteristic for classifying organisms?
(a) the place where they live.
(b) the kind of cells they are made of. Why?
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
What are the differences between amphibians and reptiles?
In the hierarchy of classification, which grouping will have the smallest number of organisms with a maximum of characteristics in common and which will have the largest number of organisms?
Which of the following has more inertia: (a) a rubber ball and a stone of the same size? (b) a bicycle and a train? (c) a five-rupees coin and a one-rupee coin?
State the universal law of gravitation.
Which of the following are matter?
Chair, air, love, smell, hate, almonds, thought, cold, cold-drink, smell of perfume.
A force of 7 N acts on an object. The displacement is, say 8 m, in the direction of the force (Fig. 11.3). Let us take it that the force acts on the object through the displacement. What is the work done in this case?
What is meant by a pure substance?
How does the sound produced by a vibrating object in a medium reach your ear?
In a reaction, 5.3 g of sodium carbonate reacted with 6 g of ethanoic acid. The products were 2.2 g of carbon dioxide, 0.9 g water and 8.2 g of sodium observations are in agreement with the law of conservation of mass.
sodium carbonate + ethanoic acid → sodium ethanoate + carbon dioxide + water
What are canal rays?
State any two conditions essential for good health.
How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus and Mars?
According to the third law of motion when we push on an object, the object pushes back on us with an equal and opposite force. If the object is a massive truck parked along the roadside, it will probably not move. A student justifies this by answering that the two opposite and equal forces cancel each other. Comment on this logic and explain why the truck does not move.
Suppose you and your friend are on the moon. Will you be able to hear any sound produced by your friend?
Diagrammatically show the difference between the three types of muscle fibres.
What management practices are common in dairy and poultry farming?
Are the answers to the above questions necessarily the same or different? Why?
Why does a desert cooler cool better on a hot dry day?
What do you mean by acceleration due to gravity?
Explain how sound is produced by your school bell.
Why are we normally advised to take bland and nourishing food when we are sick?
Differentiate between parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma on the basis of their cell wall.