Topic - Nutrition
Very short answer type questions-
1.What type of nutrition is found in cuscuta?
2.What is the hardest material of our body?
3.Mention the two different types of metabolism?
4.What enable the carbon dioxide and water to combine to form carbohydrate in the
presence of sunlight?
5.Why are chloroplasts absent in epidermal cells?
6.What are the end products of fat digestion?
7.Which types of blood cells of human beings show phagocytosis like an Amoeba.
8. Name two enzymes of pancreatic juices.
9.Name the digestive glands in humans.
10.What are the finger-like projections of the intestinal wall called?
11. What causes heartburn?
12. Which digestive glands are situated in the wall of the alimentary canal itself.
13.Name an animal which shows intracellular digestion.
14.what name is given to the alternate contraction and relaxation of the gut wall?
15.Which substance is converted into sugar when treated with amylase enzymes?
16.Name a biological catalyst present in our stomach.
17.What protects the inner lining of the stomach from the action of the acid under normal
conditions?
18.Give an important point of difference between guard cells and other epidermal cells.
19.Define metabolism.
20.What is the other name of leaf stalk?
short answer type questions-
1. What causes tooth decay? How it can be overcome, give three points.
2.How does bile help in digestion?
3.Why does bread taste sweet when it is chewed for a long time?
4. What is the role of hydrochloric acid produced by the stomach wall?
5. How does a fungus differ from an animal in mode of nutrition?
6.What is peristalsis? What is its significance?
7.Where does digestion of food start in the body of human beings? What happens in the first
step?
8.What do you mean by holozoic organisms? Give an example.
9.What is the role of enzymes in the process of digestion?
10.Bile doesn't have any digestive enzymes but it plays a great role in digestion. Explain.
11.which parts of the digestive system of human beings produce starch digesting enzymes?
Where is starch digested?
12.Photosynthesis is an anabolic process. Comment.
13.Describe nutrition in an amoeba.
14.The wall of the stomach is also made of protein, but it is not digested by protease of the
stomach. Why?
15.Give the name of the enzyme present in the fluid in our mouth cavity. State the gland
which produces it. What would happen to the digestion process if this gland stops secreting
this enzyme?
16.Why do herbivores have longer small intestine than carnivores?
Long answer type questions-
1.With the help of labelled diagrams show the process of nutrition in Amoeba.
2.How are carbohydrates, proteins and fat digested in human beings?
3.i) What is the difference between alimentary canal and digestive system.
ii) Write the site of productions and site of action of the following– Saliva , trypsin, bile,
pepsin, lipase.
4.Draw a labelled diagram of the human digestive system.
5.What is photosynthesis? Write the chemical equation to show the process of
photosynthesis. What are the three events that take place during photosynthesis?
6. In the context of the statement “ Chlorophyll is necessary for photosynthesis “ answer the
following questions:
a) What are variegated leaves? Give an example.
b) When a leaf is boiled in alcohol, what happens to the colour of the leaf and the colour
of the solution?
c) In what form is the carbohydrate produced, stored in the plant? Why is chlorophyll
necessary for photosynthesis
Topic - Respiration in humans and plants
Very short answer type questions-
1.What is the site of glycolysis?
2.What is produced when ATP is broken?
3.Name an animal tissue which sometimes doesn't use oxygen to produce energy.
4.Name an animal in which exchange of gases occurs through its moist skin.
5.What is the other name of windpipe?
6.Name two things of nasal passage which checks the entry of dust into lungs.
7.How is most of the carbon dioxide transported in blood?
8.What is the normal range of haemoglobin in the blood of an adult healthy person?
9.Name the pigment present in plants which can absorb solar energy.
10.Where does aerobic breakdown of Pyruvate take place in the living cell? What are its
end products?
11.Which organ organ of the respiratory system of human beings is supported by
cartilaginous rings?
12.What name is given to the thin walled sacs present at the terminal end of smallest
bronchioles?
13.Which parts of the root increase its surface area to facilitate exchange of gases and
absorption of water?
14.Where does oxygen leave the blood?
15.What protects the trachea from being collapsed when there is no air in it?
16.Name the areas in a woody stem through which respiratory exchange of gases takes
place.
Short answer type questions-
1.Respiration is a catabolic process. comment.
2.What is residual air ? What is its role?
3.Give three important points of differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
4.How are respiratory gases transported in human beings?
5.Explain the mechanism of breathing.
6.Why is less energy released in anaerobic respiration?
7.Why do you go breathing deeply even when your hard physical exercise is over?
8. What is the role of cartilaginous rings in trachea?
9.State the significance of nasal passage of human beings in respiration.
10.State four differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
11.How will you prove that carbon dioxide is produced during fermentation?
Long answer type questions-
1.What is glycolysis? Where does it take place? State three ways in which the end product
of glycolysis can be utilized.
2.Draw the diagram of respiratory system of human being and :
I) State the role of nasal passage.
ii) What is the significance of tracheal rings?
3.What is meant by cellular respiration? Write what happens in the cell in the presence or in
the absence of oxygen.
4.Why is diffusion insufficient to meet the oxygen requirements of large multicellular
organisms like humans?
Topic - Circulatory system or transportation
Very short answer type questions-
1.What general name is given to the blood vessels which carry blood from body parts to
heart?
2.Which blood vessels bring oxygenated blood from lungs to heart?
3.What type of blood is present in the right atrium of the human heart?
4.Which process is mainly responsible for the transportation of water and dissolved minerals
in a tall tree.
5.Name the red pigments which carry oxygen in blood.
6.Where does the blood absorb oxygen in the human body?
7.Name the instrument used to measure blood pressure, also mention normal blood
pressure of a healthy adult man.
8.Why is it necessary to separate oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in mammals and
birds?
Short answer type questions-
1.Why is the wall of the ventricle thicker than the wall of the atria?
2.Define lymph? Write its significance or important functions.
3.Why are capillaries very thin walled?
4.How does an artery differ from a vein? Give three points.
5.What is double circulation? What is its significance?
6.How is organic food transported in higher plants?
7.What is blood? Mention it's significance?
8.Blood is rightly called the river of life. Explain.
9.Define transpiration. Write its significance?
10.Explain the process of transport of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in a human
body.
11.List three kinds of blood vessels of human circulatory system and write their functions in
tabular form.
12. Give reason for the following:
I) Alveoli in lungs are richly supplied with blood capillaries.
ii) Respiratory pigment in blood takes up oxygen and not carbon dioxide.
iii) During anaerobic respiration, a 3 - carbon molecule is formed as an end product Instead
of Co2 in human beings.
13. Water is used by the leaves of the plants for photosynthesis but rather than watering the
leaves, we water the plant through the soil. How does this water reach the leaves of the
plant?
Long answer type questions-
1.i)What is transpiration? How does transpiration account for the transport of water during
day time? Explain giving any three reasons the significance of transpiration in plants.
ii) What is translocation? Name the cells involved in the transport of food in plants.
2. Draw the diagram of the human heart and label all the parts.
Topic - Excretion in human beings and plants
Very short answer type questions-
1.What is the functional unit of the kidney?
2.Where is urine produced?
3. Name the main waste which passes out into dialysing solution from the patient’s blood
during dialysis.
4.Where is blood filtered in our body?
5.Which gas is exclusively released by plants during the night?
6. What are the two main processes during urine formation?
7. What is the main nitrogenous waste of man?
Short answer type questions-
1.Define excretion? Name any three excretory organs other than the kidney.
2. What is the significance of re - absorption of filtrate from the tubule of nephron?
3.Mention the pathway of urine in our body starting from the organ of its formation to it's
excretion. What will happen if the tubular part of the nephron doesn't work properly?
4. Enlist various ways in which plants excrete waste materials.
5.What is dialysis? What is its significance?
Long answer type questions-
1. Draw the diagram of the labelled human excretory system.
2. Explain the process of hemodialysis.
3. Make a labelled diagram of a nephron. How is urine produced in it.
