What do we get from cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables?
i. From cereals like wheat, rice, maize, we get carbohydrates which provide energy.
ii. Pulses like pea, gram, soybean give us proteins.
iii. Fruits and vegetables are a rich source of vitamins and minerals. A small amount of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats are also present in them.
How do you differentiate between capture fishing, mariculture and aquaculture?
How do good animal husbandry practices benefit farmers?
Explain any one method of crop production which ensures high yield.
What are the desirable characters of bee varieties suitable for honey production?
How do plants get nutrients?
How are fish obtained?
What is genetic manipulation? How is it useful in agricultural practices?
What are the desirable agronomic characteristics for crop improvements?
What factors may be responsible for losses of grains during storage?
Which method is commonly used for improving cattle breeds and why?
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?
Why is it difficult to hold a school bag having a strap made of a thin and strong string?
If K and L shells of an atom are full, then what would be the total number of electrons in the atom?
What does the odometer of an automobile measure?
Write the electronic configuration of any one pair of isotopes and isobars.
Summarise the rules for writing of distribution of electrons in various shells for the first eighteen elements.
What can you say about the motion of an object if its speed-time graph is a straight line parallel to the time axis?
If Z = 3, what would be the valency of the element? Also, name the element.
A stone of 1 kg is thrown with a velocity of 20 m s-1 across the frozen surface of a lake and comes to rest after travelling a distance of 50 m. What is the force of friction between the stone and the ice?
Why are we able to sip hot tea or milk faster from a saucer rather than a cup?
Write a note on how forests influence the quality of our air, soil and water resources.