Which do you think is a more basic characteristic for classifying organisms?
(a) the place where they live.
(b) the kind of cells they are made of. Why?
The more basic characteristic for classifying organisms is the kind cells they are made of because there are a number of organisms which are living in a common habitat but they belong to different taxonomic groups. Organisms can be classified into eukaryotes (protista, fungi, plants and animals) and prokaryotes (monera) on the basis of cell type.
How do poriferan animals differ from coelenterate animals?
Explain the basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms.
Explain how animals in Vertebrata are classified into further subgroups.
Which organisms are called primitive and how are they different from the so-called advanced organisms?
How do gymnosperms and Angiosperms differ from each other?
What are the major divisions in the Plantae? What is the basis for these divisions?
Give three examples of the range of variations that you see in life-forms around you.
How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?
What are the differences between amphibians and reptiles?
Which division among plants has the simplest organisms?
Which of the following has more inertia: (a) a rubber ball and a stone of the same size? (b) a bicycle and a train? (c) a five-rupees coin and a one-rupee coin?
State the universal law of gravitation.
Which of the following are matter?
Chair, air, love, smell, hate, almonds, thought, cold, cold-drink, smell of perfume.
A force of 7 N acts on an object. The displacement is, say 8 m, in the direction of the force (Fig. 11.3). Let us take it that the force acts on the object through the displacement. What is the work done in this case?
What is meant by a pure substance?
How does the sound produced by a vibrating object in a medium reach your ear?
In a reaction, 5.3 g of sodium carbonate reacted with 6 g of ethanoic acid. The products were 2.2 g of carbon dioxide, 0.9 g water and 8.2 g of sodium observations are in agreement with the law of conservation of mass.
sodium carbonate + ethanoic acid → sodium ethanoate + carbon dioxide + water
What are canal rays?
State any two conditions essential for good health.
How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus and Mars?
How do storage grain losses occur?
Liquids generally have lower density as compared to solids. But you must have observed that ice floats on water. Find out why.
Which tissue makes up the husk of coconut?
Why is the atmosphere essential for life?
An object thrown at a certain angle to the ground moves in a curved path and falls back to the ground. The initial and the final points of the path of the object lie on the same horizontal line. What is the work done by the force of gravity on the object?
Describe Bohr’s model of the atom.
What do we call the gravitational force between the earth and an object?
What are the differences between the mass of an object and its weight?
Write the distribution of electrons in carbon and sodium atoms.
A ball is gently dropped from a height of 20 m. If its velocity increases uniformly at the rate of 10 m s-2, with what velocity will it strike the ground? After what time will it strike the ground?