What are the differences between amphibians and reptiles?
Amphibian | Reptiles |
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Respiration is either through gills or lungs. | Respiration is through lungs. |
The skin of Amphibian is moist and soft. | The skin of Reptiles is hardened. |
They lay eggs in water. | They lay eggs on land. |
Example : frogs, toads, and salamanders. | Example: lizards, snakes, turtles, chameleons, etc. |
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?
Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in life-forms around you.
What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
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?
Which division among plants has the simplest 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?
Distinguish between speed and velocity.
A stone is released from the top of a tower of height 19.6 m. Calculate its final velocity.
Give the names of the elements present in the following compounds.
(a) Quick lime
(b) Hydrogen bromide
(c) Baking powder
(d) Potassium sulphate.
Using a horizontal force of 200 N, we intend to move a wooden cabinet across a floor at a constant velocity. What is the friction force that will be exerted on the cabinet?
Why does a block of plastic released under water come up to the surface of water?
What do you mean by acceleration due to gravity?
How many atoms are present in a
(i) H2S molecule and
(ii) PO43- ion?
Are the answers to the above questions necessarily the same or different? Why?
Hydrogen and oxygen combine in the ratio of 1:8 by mass to form water. What mass of oxygen gas would be required to react completely with 3 g of hydrogen gas?
Where do the lipids and proteins constituting the cell membrane get synthesised?