Why does a lump of cotton wool shrink in water?
Air is dissolved in water and this can be showed by an experiment.
Diagram:
This proves that air dissolves in water.
How will you prove that air supports burning?
How do plants and animals help each other in the exchange of gases in the atmosphere?
List five activities that are possible due to the presence of air.
The layer of air around the earth is known as ___________.
How will you show that air is dissolved in water?
What is the composition of air?
The component of air used by green plants to make their food, is ___________.
Which gas in the atmosphere is essential for respiration?
(a) Which kind of garbage is not converted into compost by the redworms?
(b) Have you seen any other organism besides redworms, in your pit? If yes, try to find out their names. Draw pictures of these.
Rearrange the boxes given below to make a sentence that helps us understand opaque objects.
To walk through a waterlogged area, you usually shorten the length of your dress by folding it. Can this change be reversed?
Do you find that all living beings need the same kind of food?
Name the major nutrients in our food.
Classify the following fibres as natural or synthetic:
nylon, wool, cotton, silk, polyester, jute
Name five objects which can be made from wood.
Why do we need to separate different components of a mixture? Give two examples.
Correct the following statements and rewrite them in your notebook.
(a) Stem absorbs water and minerals from the soil.
(b) Leaves hold the plant upright.
(c) Roots conduct water to the leaves.
(d) The number of petals and sepals in a flower is always equal.
(e) If the sepals of a flower are joined together, its petals are also joined together.
(f) If the petals of a flower are joined together, then the pistil is joined to the petal.
Fill in the blanks:
(a) Joints of the bones help in the ——————— of the body.
(b) A combination of bones and cartilages forms the _______ of the body.
(c) The bones at the elbow are joined by a ______________________ joint.
(d) The contraction of the _____________ pulls the bones during movement.
If a plant has leaves with reticulate venation, what kind of roots will it have?
Which of the following plants have you seen? of those that you have seen, which one have flowers?
Grass, maize, wheat, chilli, tomato, tulsi, pipal, shisham, banyan, mango, jamun, guava, pomegranate, papaya, banana, lemon, sugarcane, potato, groundnut
List the common characteristics of the living things.
Column I shows different positions in which one pole of a magnet is placed near that of the other. Column II indicates the resulting action between them for each situation. Fill in the blanks.
Column I Column II
N - N _________
N - _________ Attraction
S - N _________
_________ - S Repulstion
Name two flowers, each with joined and separated sepals.
Classify the objects or materials given below as opaque, transparent or translucent and luminous or non-luminous:
Air, water, a piece of rock, a sheet of aluminium, a mirror, a wooden board, a sheet of polythene, a CD, smoke, a sheet of plane glass, fog, a piece of red hot
iron, an umbrella, a lighted fluorescent tube, a wall, a sheet of carbon paper, the flame of a gas burner, a sheet of cardboard, a lighted torch, a sheet of cellophane, a wire mesh, kerosene stove, sun, firefly, moon.
You are given an iron strip. How will you make it into a magnet?
Give an example of a non-living thing, which shows any two characteristics of living things.
The distance between Radha's home and her school is 3250 m. Express this distance into km.
Explain the process of making yarn from fibre.