Class 9 Science - Chapter Improvement in Food Resources NCERT Solutions | How do plants get nutrients?

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 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?

How do biotic and abiotic factors affect crop production?

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?

What are the functions of areolar tissue?

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.

Which tissue makes up the husk of coconut?

Helium atom has an atomic mass of 4 u and two protons in its nucleus. How many neutrons does it have?

What is osmosis?

When 3.0 g of carbon is burnt in 8.00 g oxygen, 11.00 g of carbon dioxide is produced. What mass of carbon dioxide will be formed when 3.00 g of carbon is burnt in 50.00 g of oxygen? Which law of chemical combination will govern your answer?

How will you find the valency of chlorine, sulphur and magnesium?

Calculate the number of aluminium ions present in 0.051 g of aluminium oxide.
(Hint: The mass of an ion is the same as that of an atom of the same element. Atomic mass of Al = 27 u)

If one mole of carbon atoms weighs 12 gram, what is the mass (in gram) of 1 atom of carbon?

If number of electrons in an atom is 8 and number of protons is also 8, then (i) what is the atomic number of the atom? and (ii) what is the charge on the atom?