Class 9 Science - Chapter The Fundamental Unit of Life NCERT Solutions | How does an Amoeba obtain its food?

Carry out the following osmosis experiment:

Take four peeled potato halves and scoos each one out to make potato cups. One of these potato cups should be made from a boiled potato. Put each potato cup in a trough containing water. Now,

(a) Keep cup A empty
(b) Put one teaspoon sugar in cup B
(c) Put one teaspoon salt in cup C
(d) Put one teaspoon sugar in the boiled potato cup D.

Keep these for two hours. Then observe the four potato cups and answer the following:

(i) Explain why water gathers in the hollowed portion of B and C.
(ii) Why is potato A necessary for this experiment?
(iii) Explain why water does not gather in the hollowed out portions of A and D.

Fill in the gaps in the following table illustrating differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.

Why is the cell called the structural and functional unit of life?

Why are lysosomes known as suicide bags?

Where do the lipids and proteins constituting the cell membrane get synthesised?

How is a prokaryotic cell different from a eukaryotic cell?

Make a comparison and write down ways in which plant cells are different from animal cells.

How do substances like CO2 and water move in and out of the cell? Discuss.

Where are proteins synthesised inside the cell?

Who discovered cells, and how?

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 does the path of an object look like when it is in uniform motion?

Number of valence electrons in Cl^-ion are:
(a) 16          (b) 8          (c) 17          (d) 18

Write down the formulae of
(i) sodium oxide
(ii) aluminium chloride
(iii) sodium suphide
(iv) magnesium hydroxide

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

Explain how the human ear works.

Why is it not possible to see an atom with naked eyes?

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

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?

A hockey ball of mass 200 g travelling at 10 m s^-1 is struck by a hockey stick so as to return it along its original path with a velocity at 5 m s^-1. Calculate the change of momentum occurred in the motion of the hockey ball by the force applied by the hockey stick.

Which has more number of atoms, 100 grams of sodium or 100 grams of iron (given, atomic mass of Na = 23 u, Fe = 56 u)?