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Revision Questions for Management of natural resources.
REVISION QUESTIONS
FOR MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1.
How can we measure biodiversity?
2.
Name the leaves which are used to make bidis?
3.
Name the industries based on forest produce..
4.
Name the bacteria which indicate contamination.
5.
What is MPN?
6.
What has led to pollution of Ganga?
7.
Which property of water can be easily measured
and also indicates pollution.
8.
What are 3R’s?
9.
Why is reuse better than recycling?
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
10.
What is sustainable development?
11.
Why do we need to manage our resources?
12.
How does mining cause pollution?
13.
What are natural resources? Give examples
14.
What would be the advantages of exploiting
resources with short term aims?
15.
What is monoculture? How has it influenced the
biodiversity and local people?
16.
Cite cases where local people have worked
towards conservation of forests?
17.
Prejudice against the traditional use of forest
areas has no basis.
18.
What is Chipko Aandolan?
19.
Suggest a few measures for controlling Carbon
dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS
20.
Despite nature’s monsoon bounty, we fail to
sustain water availability underground. Give reasons.
21.
Explain Kulhs.
22.
Why is government facing opposition to
construction of large dams?
23.
What is watershed management? What are its aims
and advantages? Or List two advantages of water harvesting at the community
level.
24.
Although coal and petroleum are produced by
degradation of biomass, yet we need to conserve them. Why?
25.
Name the traditional water harvesting structures
in various states of India.
26.
Draw Khadin.
27.
What are the advantages of water stored
underground?
28.
Why are Arabari forests of Bengal known to be a
good example of conserved forests?
29.
Suggest a few useful ways of utilizing waste
water.
30.
What is the importance of forest as a resource?
31.
Is water conservation necessary? Give reasons.
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Control and Coordination Class X Revision questions
CONTROL AND COORDINATION
1.
Name two tissues in animals which help in
control and coordination
2.
What is a receptor?
3.
Name the receptors which help to detect taste
and smell.
4.
How does nerve impulse travel in our body?
5.
What is a reflex arc? Show it with the help of a
diagram.
6.
What is the significance of reflexes? Give
examples of reflexes.
7.
Trace the sequence of events which occur when
your hand touches a hot object.
8.
Trace the sequence of events which occur when a
bright light is focussed on your eyes?
9.
What is the role of brain in reflexes?
10.
What are the components of central nervous
system? How does CNS communicate with other parts of the body?
11.
Which part of the brain is responsible for
sensation of hunger and thirst?
12.
Draw a well labelled diagram of human brain.
13.
State the functions of various parts of brain.
14.
Differentiate between reflexes and involuntary
and voluntary activities giving examples.
15.
How is nervous tissue protected?
16.
How does the nervous tissue cause action?
17.
What happens at synapse between two neurons?
18.
How do we detect the smell of an incense stick?
19.
Discuss the kind of movement shown by plants
with examples.
20.
How do plant cells change shape?
21.
Explain the role of auxins in tropisms.
22.
How do auxins promote the growth of tendril
around a support?
23.
Compare and contrast nervous and hormonal means
of coordination.
24.
Give the functions of growth promoting hormones.
Give examples
25.
Give the function of growth inhibiting hormone.
Give examples.
26.
Design an experiment to demonstrate
hydrotropism.
27.
State the functions of adrenaline.
28.
Why is it important to have iodised salts?
29.
What causes dwarfism?
30.
Which hormones are responsible for changes
happening in your body in puberty?
31.
How does the body ensure that hormones are
secreted in precise amount as deficiency as well as excess of hormones cause diseases?
32.
Which hormone regulates blood sugar levels?
33.
What do you understand by the feedback
mechanism?
34.
What is the function of receptors in our body?
Think of situations where receptors do not work properly. What problems are
likely to arise?
35.
Which signal will get interrupted in case of
spinal cord injury?
36.
What is the need for a system of control and
coordination in plants?
Life processes revision sheet- 2 for class X
44.
Draw a well labelled diagram of human heart.
45.
State the function of components of blood.
46.
Why do ventricles have thicker walls?
47.
Explain significance of double circulation.
48.
Name the organism in which blood goes only once
through the heart in one cycle.
49.
Name the organism which has two chambered heart.
50.
Why is it necessary to separate oxygenated and
deoxygenated blood in birds and mammals?
51.
What is blood pressure?
52.
Give the value of systolic and diastolic blood
pressure.
53.
Name the instrument which measures blood
pressure.
54.
What is hypertension and what can be its
impacts?
55.
What would happen if blood would leak from a
blood vessel? Explain how is it fixed?
56.
What is tissue fluid? Give its composition. State
its functions.
57.
Why do plants need a proper transportation
system?
58.
Why do plants have low energy needs?
59.
Explain the transport of water in plants.
60.
State three importance of transpiration for a
plant.
61.
Does root pressure play any role in transport of
water in plants?
62.
Define translocation.
63.
Explain the difference between transport of water
and food in plants.
64.
Define excretion.
65.
How is urine produced?
66.
Draw a well labelled diagram of human excretory
system.
67.
Name the filtration units in kidneys.
68.
Name few factors which can reduce the activity
of kidneys.
69.
Give the value of initial filtrate as well as
final urine output per day in humans.
70.
Explain hemodialysis with the help of a diagram.
71.
What are the methods used by plants to get rid
of excretory wastes.
72.
How the amount of urine is produced regulated?
73.
Explain the difference in respiration in plants
and animals.
74.
What is the role of saliva in digestion of food?
75.
Compare the functioning of alveoli in lungs and
nephrons in the kidneys with respect to their structure and functioning.
Revision questions for classX
LIFE PROCESSES
1.
How do we tell the difference between what is
alive and what is not?
2.
Is the invisible molecular movement necessary
for life?
3.
Why are molecular movements needed for life?
4.
What are life processes?
5.
Life on earth depends on ----------------------based
molecules.
6.
Most chemical reactions in body are
-------------------
7.
Simple diffusion is not enough for multicellular
organisms.
8.
Why do we need transportation system?
9.
Give two examples of autotrophs and
heterotrophs. Also bring out the differences between the two modes of
nutrition.
10.
State the function of biocatalysts.
11.
Define photosynthesis and write a balanced
equation for it.
12.
Name the internal energy reserve in plants and
animals.
13.
Explain the events that occur during
photosynthesis.
14.
How do desert plants photosynthesise?
15.
Give two examples of variegated leaves.
16.
State two functions of stomata. How is opening
and closing of stomata regulated? Draw a well labelled diagram.
17.
How do plants obtain other raw materials?
18.
What are the green dots in a leaf cell
19.
Give two examples of parasites and saprophytes
each.
20.
Comment: Form of nutrition differs depending on
the type and availability of food material.
21.
Explain nutrition in amoeba.
22.
What is the difference in which food is obtained
by amoeba and paramecium?
23.
Activity 6.3
24.
Discuss the digestion of food in mouth.
25.
Define peristalsis. Does peristalsis occur only
in oesophagus?
26.
Explain digestion of food in stomach.
27.
State the function of HCl and mucus in stomach.
28.
What is acidity?
29.
Why do herbivores have longer small intestine?
30.
Small intestine is the site of complete
digestion of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
31.
What is a villus? What is its function? Or How
is small intestine designed to absorb digested food?
32.
What is dental caries?
33.
Activity 6.5
34.
What are the various ways in which glucose is
broken down?
35.
State the function of ATP. How much energy is
released when one terminal phosphate of ATP is broken?
36.
Why do aquatic organisms have higher breathing
rates?
37.
List the characteristics of respiratory surface.
38.
Why is nasal breathing better than mouth
breathing?
39.
Draw the diagram of respiratory system.
40.
Explain how breathing takes place.
41.
How is oxygen and carbon dioxide transported?
42.
How are lungs designed in human beings to
maximise the area for exchange of gases.
43.
State the amount of Hb in men and women
Monday, 11 July 2016
REVISION TEST FOR CLASS VIII
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