List any three human activities which would lead to an increase in the carbon dioxide content of air.
The following three human activities would lead to air pollution:
(i) Burning of fossil fuels like coal and petroleum.
(ii) Emission of harmful gases and dust particles from vehicles.
(iii) Smoke released from industries containing harmful gases like sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen.
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?
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?
What is the greenhouse effect?
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?
For increasing production, what is common in poultry, fisheries and bee-keeping?
Complete the table:
The frequency of a source of sound is 100 Hz. How many times does it vibrate in a minute?
Define valency by taking examples of silicon and oxygen.
Joseph jogs from one end A to the other end B of a straight 300 m road in 2 minutes 50 seconds and then turns around and jogs 100 m back to point C in another 1 minute. What are Joseph’s average speeds and velocities in jogging (a) from A to B and (b) from A to C?
Two objects, each of mass 1.5 kg, are moving in the same straight line but in opposite directions. The velocity of each object is 2.5 m s-1 before the collision during which they stick together. What will be the velocity of the combined object after collision?
Which one of the following is a correct electronic configuration of sodium?
(a) 2,8 (b) 8,2,1 (c) 2,1,8 (d) 2,8,1.
What are the advantages of composite fish culture?
Explain, why is it difficult for a fireman to hold a hose, which ejects large amounts of water at a high velocity.
What are the advantages of inter-cropping and crop rotation?