Class 7 Science - Chapter Transportation in Animals and Plants NCERT Solutions | What makes the blood look red?

What are stomata? Give two functions of stomata.

Draw a diagram of the human excretory system and label the various parts.

Match structures given in Column I with functions given in Column II.

Column I                           Column II
(i) Stomata                        (a) Absorption of water
(ii) Xylem                           (b) Transpiration
(iii) Root hairs                    (c) Transport of food
(iv) Phloem                        (d) Transport of water
                                          (e) Synthesis of carbohydrates

Describe the function of the heart.

Does transpiration serve any useful function in the plants? Explain.

What are the components of blood?

Why is transport of materials necessary in a plant or in an animal? Explain.

Why is it necessary to excrete waste products?

What will happen if there are no platelets in the blood?

Why is blood needed by all the parts of a body?

State similarities and differences between the laboratory thermometer and the clinical thermometer.

State differences between acids and bases.

Classify the changes involved in the following processes as physical or chemical changes:
(a) Photosynthesis
(b) Dissolving sugar in water
(c) Burning of coal
(d) Melting of wax
(e) Beating aluminium to make aluminium foil
(f ) Digestion of food

Name the elements that determine the weather of a place.

Fill the missing word in the blank spaces in the following statements:

(a) Wind is——————air.
(b) Winds are generated due to —————— heating on the earth.
(c) Near the earth’s surface __________air rises up whereas ___________ air comes down.
(d) Air moves from a region of ——— pressure to a region of ———.

In addition to the rock particles, the soil contains

(i) air and water
(ii) water and plants
(iii) minerals, organic matter, air and water
(iv) water, air and plants

Why does an athlete breathe faster and deeper than usual after finishing the race?

Fill in the blanks:

(a) Production of new individuals from the vegetative part of parent is called_____________.
(b) A flower may have either male or female reproductive parts. Such a flower is called_____________.
(c) The transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of the same or of another flower of the same kind is known as _____________.
(d) The fusion of male and female gametes is termed as _____________.
(e) Seed dispersal takes place by means of _____________, _____________ and _____________.

Classify the following as motion along a straight line, circular or oscillatory motion:

(i) Motion of your hands while running.
(ii) Motion of a horse pulling a cart on a straight road.
(iii) Motion of a child in a merry-go-round.
(iv) Motion of a child on a see-saw.
(v) Motion of the hammer of an electric bell.
(vi) Motion of a train on a straight bridge.

Why do organisms need to take food?

Describe the different methods of asexual reproduction. Give examples.

Dorji has a few bottles of soft drink in his restaurant. But, unfortunately, these are not labelled. He has to serve the drinks on the demand of customers. One customer wants acidic drink, another wants basic and third one wants neutral drink. How will Dorji decide which drink is to be served to whom?

Fig.14.22 shows four cells fixed on a board. Draw lines to indicate how you will connect their terminals with wires to make a battery of four cells.

11. A virtual image larger than the object can be produced by a

(i) concave lens           (ii) concave mirror
(iii) convex mirror        (iv) plane mirror

The rear view mirror of a car is a plane mirror. A driver is reversing his car at a speed of 2 m/s. The driver sees in his rear view mirror the
image of a truck parked behind his car. The speed at which the image of the truck appears to approach the driver will be

(i) 1 m/s            (ii) 2 m/s
(iii) 4 m/s          (iv) 8 m/s

State whether the following statements are true or false. In case a statement is false, write the corrected statement in your notebook.

(a) Cutting a log of wood into pieces is a chemical change. (True/False)
(b) Formation of manure from leaves is a physical change. (True/False)                                                                                                                                              (c) Iron pipes coated with zinc do not get rusted easily. (True/False)
(d) Iron and rust are the same substances. (True/False)
(e) Condensation of steam is not a chemical change. (True/False)

Fill in the blanks:

 (i) The average weather taken over a long time is called ___________.                                                                                                                                               (ii) A place receives very little rainfall and the temperature is high throughout the year, the climate of that place will be ___________ and ___________ .
 (iii) The two regions of the earth with extreme climatic conditions are ___________ and __________.

Which type of lens forms always a virtual image?

Describe the various ways by which seeds are dispersed.

Which of the following are not correct?

(i) The basic unit of time is second.
(ii) Every object moves with a constant speed.
(iii) Distances between two cities are measured in kilometres.
(iv) The time period of a given pendulum is not constant.
(v) The speed of a train is expressed in m/h.