What are the methods of preventing or reducing soil erosion?
The methods of preventing or reducing soil erosion are:
(i) Afforestation or planting of trees.
(ii) Growth of vegetation.
List any three human activities that you think would lead to air pollution.
Why is the atmosphere essential for life?
What causes winds?
Why do organisms need water?
Why is water essential for life?
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?
List any three human activities which would lead to an increase in the carbon dioxide content of air.
How does the atmosphere act as a blanket?
You have seen weather reports on television and in newspapers. How do you think we are able to predict the weather?
How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus and Mars?
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.
Who discovered cells, and how?
An automobile vehicle has a mass of 1500 kg. What must be the force between the vehicle and road if the vehicle is to be stopped with a negative acceleration of 1.7 m s-2?
What is immunisation?
Why are manure and fertilizers used in fields?
How do plants get nutrients?
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?
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.