Class 9 Science - Chapter Improvement in Food Resources NCERT Solutions | Which method is commonly used for improv

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?

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?

A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 10 m in 40 s. What will be the magnitude of displacement of the farmer at the end of 2 minutes 20 seconds?

What is the mass of:

(a) 0.2 mole of oxygen atoms?
(b) 0.5 mole of water molecules?

Explain, why is it difficult for a fireman to hold a hose, which ejects large amounts of water at a high velocity.

Arrange the following substances in increasing order of forces of attraction between the particles— water, sugar, oxygen.

A bus decreases its speed from 80 km h^-1 to 60 km h^-1 in 5 s. Find the acceleration of the bus.

List any three reasons why you would think that you are sick and ought to see a doctor. If only one of these symptoms were present, would you still go to the doctor? Why or why not?

If the organisation of a cell is destroyed due to some physical or chemical influence, what will happen?

Identify the type of tissue in the following: skin, bark of tree, bone, lining of kidney tubule, vascular bundle.

Write down the names of following formulae:

(i) Al₂(SO₄)₃
(ii) CaCl₂
(iii) K₂SO₄
(iv) KNO₃
(v) CaCO₃.

We know that many human activities lead to increasing levels of pollution of the air, water-bodies and soil. Do you think that isolating these activities to specific and limited areas would help in reducing pollution?