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?

Explain any one method of crop production which ensures high yield.

How do good animal husbandry practices benefit farmers?

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?

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?

What can you say about the motion of an object whose distance-time graph is a straight line parallel to the time axis?

What are polyatomic ions? Give examples.

Diagrammatically show the difference between the three types of muscle fibres.

What is the quantity which is measured by the area occupied below the velocity-time graph?

How does the atmosphere act as a blanket?

Why do organisms need water?

An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate its speed if it takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth.

How many types of elements together make up the xylem tissue? Name them.

A certain household has consumed 250 units of energy during a month. How much energy is this in joules?