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Describe with the help of a diagram an instrument which can be used to detect a charged body.

Sketch larynx and explain its function in your own words.

What is metamorphosis? Give examples.

Make a labelled diagram of a candle flame.

Arrange the following boxes in proper order to make a flow chart of sugarcane crop production.

The following Table shows the total power shortage in India from 1991– 1997. Show the data in the form of a graph. Plot shortage percentage for the years on the Y-axis and the year on the X-axis.

Make sketches of animal and plant cells. State three differences between them.

What is a constellation? Name any two constellations.

Describe the construction of a kaleidoscope.

Make a sketch of the human nerve cell. What function do nerve cells perform?

Fill in the blanks in the following :
(a) A person 1 m in front of a plane mirror seems to be _______________ m from his image.
(b) If you touch your ____________ ear with right hand in front of a plane mirror it will be seen in the mirror that your right ear is touched with ____________
(c) The size of the pupil becomes ____________ when you see in dim light.
(d) Night birds have ____________ cones than rods in their eyes..

Arrange the following boxes in proper order to make a flow chart of sugarcane crop production.

Make sketches of animal and plant cells. State three differences between them.

Choose the correct option.

(a) Adolescents should be careful about what they eat, because
(i) proper diet develops their brains.
(ii) proper diet is needed for the rapid growth taking place in their body.
(iii) adolescents feel hungry all the time.
(iv) taste buds are well developed in teenagers.

(b) Reproductive age in women starts when their
(i) menstruation starts.
(ii) breasts start developing.
(iii) body weight increases.
(iv) height increases.

(c) The right meal for adolescents consists of
(i) chips, noodles, coke.
(ii) chapati, dal, vegetables.
(iii) rice, noodles and burger.
(iv) vegetable cutlets, chips and lemon drink.

Make a sketch of the human nerve cell. What function do nerve cells perform?

Does pure water conduct electricity? If not, what can we do to make it conducting?

Describe the construction of a kaleidoscope.

Fill in the blanks in the following statements:
(a) To draw water from a well we have to ——— at the rope.
(b) A charged body ———— an uncharged body towards it.
(c) To move a loaded trolley we have to ———— it.
(d) The north pole of a magnet ———— the north pole of another magnet.

Where are chromosomes found in a cell? State their function.

Draw sketches to show the relative positions of prominent stars in
(a) Ursa Major and (b) Orion