SCIENCE

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Topic # 1
RESPIRATION IN ORGNAISMS
1) How breathing is different from respiration?
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2) Why does an athele breath faster and deeper
then usual after finishing the race ?

3) Rearrange the following parts of the repiratory

system in order:
Trachea, Nose,Alveoli,Bronchi,Nasal
cavity,Bronchiole
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4) What are different types of Repiration?

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5) List the similarities and differences between
aerobic and anaerobic repiration?

6) Why yeast is used in wine making industry?

7) Why do we often sneeze when we inhale a lot

of dust-laden air?

8) When does a person need artifical repisration?

9) From where can the person get supply of

oxygen for artifical repisration?

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10) Does the person need to be kept on artifical
repiration temporarily or permanently?

11) Name the animal who does dual breathing?

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12) How does plant repire ?

13) How does breathing take place in fishes ?

14) What are the functions of ribs and diaphragm

during breathing? Descibe their functioning ?
15) Why is smoking bad for us ?

16) How do birds breath?

17) How do insects breathe?

18) Which cell organellle is a site for cellular

respiration?

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19) Why do frogs have thin and moist skin?

21) Name the two steps in breathing.

22) Tick the correct answer:

a)
In cockraches, air enter the body
through..
i. Lungs
ii. Gills
iii. Spiracles
iv. Skin
b)
During heavy excerise we get cramps in
the legs due to the accumulation
of
i) Carbondioxide
ii) Lactic acid
iii) Alcohol
iv) Water
c)Normal range of breathing rate per minute in
an average adult person at rest is..
i) 9-12
ii) 15-18
iii) 21-24
iv) 30-33

d)
i)

During exhalation,the ribs..

Move outwrads
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ii) Move downwards and inwards

iii) Move upwards
iv) Do not move at all
e)
The mountaineers carry oxygen with them
because:
i) At an altitude of more than 5km there is no
air.
ii) The amount of air available to a person is
less then that available on the ground.
iii) The temperature of air is higher then that
on the ground.
iv) The pressure of air is higher than that on
the ground.
23) Match the items in Column I with those in
Column II:
Column I
a) Yeast
Earthworm
b) Diaphragm
c)Skin
d) Leaves
cavity
e) Fish
f) Frog
Skin
g) Insects

Column II
i)
ii) Gills
iii) Alcohol
iv) Chest
v) Stomata
vi) Lungs and
vii) Trachea
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Choose the following True or False:

i) During heaving exercise the breathing rate
of a person slows down. (T/F)
Explanation:

ii)Plants carry out photosynthesis only during

the day and repisration only at night. (T/F)
Explanation:

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iii) Frogs breath through their skins as well as
their lungs. (T/F)
explantions:

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iv)
The fishes have lungs for respiration.
(T/F)
Explanations:

v)The size of the chest cavity increases

during inhalation.(T/F)
Eplanation:

25) Given below is a square of letters in which

are hidden different words, related to
repiration in organisms. Find the words for
your repiratory system.
i)
ii)

The air tubes of insects.

Skeletal structures surrounding chest
cavity..
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iv)
v)
vi)
vii)
viii)
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Tiny pores on the surface of a

leaf
Muscular floor of chest cavity
Small openings on the side of the body of an
insect.
The repisratory organs of human
beings.
The openings through which we inhale
An anaerobic oragnisms
An oraganism with tracheal
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Topic # 2

REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS
1) Describe the different methods of asexual
reproduction. Give examples.

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2) Explain what you understand by sexual

reproduction?

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3) Explain the main difference between asexual

and sexual reproduction?

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4) Sketch the reproductive part of the plant?

x)

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5) Name the male and female part of the flower?

6) What do you mean by pollination?

7) Explain the difference between self-pollination

and cross-pollination?

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8) How does the process of fertilization take place

in flowers?

9) What are the different agents of pollination?

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10) How seed is different from fruit?
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11) Describe the various ways by which seeds are

dispersed?

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12) What are the advantages of Vegetative

propagation?

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13) Circle the correct answer:
a) The reproductive part of a plant is the
(i)
Leaf
(ii)
Stem
(iii) Root
(iv) Flower

b) The process of fusion of the male and the

female gametes is called:
(i)
Fertilization
(ii)
Pollination
(iii) Reproduction
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Seed formation

c)Mature ovary forms the

(i)
Seed
(ii)
Stamen
(iii) Pistil
(iv) Fruit
d) A spore producing plant is:
(i)
Rose
(ii)
Bread mould
(iii) Potato
(iv) Ginger
e) Bryophyllum can produce by its
(i)
Stem
(ii)
Leaves
(iii) Roots
(iv) Flower
14) Fill in the blacks:
a)
Production of new individuals from the
vegetative part of parents is called

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

f) Asexual reproduction in spirogyra is an

example of
g)
Mosses, ferns, moulds etc reproduce by
.. formation,

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Topic # 3
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGE
1) What do u mean by physical properties of
matter?

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2) What do you mean by physical changes?

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3) Define chemical properties of matter?

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4) What do mean by chemical change? Give an

example.

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5) Classify the changes involved in the following

processes as physical or chemical changes:
a) Photosynthesis -------------------------------b) Dissolving sugar in water
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d) Melting of wax ---------------------------e) Beating aluminum to make aluminum foil

--------------------------------f) Digestion of food ----------------------------6) When baking soda is mixed with lemon juice
bubbles are formed with evolution of a gas.
What type of change is it? Explain.

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7) When a candle burns both physical and
chemical changes take place. Identify these
changes. Give another example of a familiar
process in which both chemical and physical
changes take place.

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8) How would you show that setting of curd is a

chemical change?

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9) Explain why burning of wood and cutting it into
small pieces are considered as two different
types of changes.

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10)
Explain how painting of an iron gate
prevents it from rusting?

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11)
Explain why rusting if iron objects are
faster in coastal areas than in deserts.

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12)
What are the characteristics of chemical
change?

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13)
The gas we use in the kitchen is called
liquefied petroleum gas (LGP) in the cylinder it
exists as a liquid. When it comes out from the
cylinder it becomes a gas ( Change-A) then it
burns (Change-B) . the following statements
pertain to these changes. Choose the correct
one.
(i)
Process- A is a chemical change
(ii)
Process- B is a chemical change
(iii) Both processes A and B are chemical
changes.
(iv) None of these processes is a chemical
change.
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Anaerobic bacteria digest animals waste
and produces biogas (Change-A). The biogas is
then burnt as fuel (Change-B). The following
statements pertain to these changes. Choose
the correct one.
(i)
Process- A is a chemical change
(ii)
Process-B is chemical change
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(iii)
(iv)

Both processes A and B are chemical

change
None of these processes is a chemical
changes

15)
State whether the following statements are
true or false. In case a statements is false, write
the corrected statements:
a) Cutting a log of wood into pieces is a
chemical change (True/False)
Explanation:

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b) Formation of manure from leaves is a
physical change. (True/False)
Explanation:

c)Iron pipes coated with zinc do not get rusted

easily.(True/False)
Explanation

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d) Iron and rust are two different substances.

(True/False)
Explanation

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e) Condensation of steam is not a chemical
change
(True/False)
Explanation

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Fill in the blanks
a)
When carbon dioxide is passed through
lime water, it turns milky due to the formation
of
b)
The chemical name of baking soda is

c)Two methods by which rusting of iron can be

prevented are .. Or
and... With
chromium or .
d)
Changes in which only
properties of a substance change are called
physical changes.
e)
Changes in which new substances are
formed are called changes
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Topic# 4

WASTE WATER STORY

1) What is sewage? Explain why it is harmful to

discharge untreated sewage into rivers or seas.

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2) Why should oils and fats be not relased in the
drain? Explain.

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3) Which day is celebrated as World Water Day?

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4) What are different types of contaminants or
impurities present in sewage?

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5) Describe the steps involved is getting clarified

water from waste water?

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6) What is sludge? Explain how it is treated.

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7) Untreated human excreta are health hazard.
Explain

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8)

Name two chemicals used to disinfect water.

9) Explain the function of bar screens in a waste

water treatment plant.

10) Explain the relationship between sanitation

and disease.

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11) Outline your role as an active citizen in
relation to sanitation

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12) Write the suitable words by using the
statements:
I. Liquid waste products..
II. Solids waste extracted in sewage
treatment.
III. A word related to hygiene
IV. Waste matter discharge from human
body..
V. Used water
VI. A pipe carrying sewage ..
VII. Micro-organisms which causes
cholera
VIII. A chemical to disinfect
water
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13) What are alternate arrangements for sewage

disposal?

14) How sewage is classified based on color and

smell?

15) What is function of skimmer in waste water

treatment plant?
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16) How sludge is decompose?

17) Why is vermin-compost considered as rich

source of nutrients?

18) Why it is suggested to grow eucalyptus trees

all along sewage ponds?

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19) How does kitchens waste block the drains?

20) Study the following statements about ozone:

a)
It is essential for breathing of living
organisms
b)
It is used to disinfect water
c)It absorbs ultraviolet rays
d)
Its proportion in air is about 30%
Which of these statements are correct?
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)

(a), (b) and (c)

(b) and (c)
(a) and (d)
All four

21) Fill in the blanks:

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a)
Cleaning of water is a process of removing

b)
Wastewater released by house is called

c)Dried..is used as manure.

d)
Drains get blocked by . And
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e)
is treated in a sewage
treatment plant
f) Septic tanks, chemical toilets, composting pits
are the example of . Untreated
sewage into rivers or seas.
23) Fill up the mind map to show different uses of
clean water.

Clean
water put
to use

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