Class 9 Science - Chapter Diversity in Living Organisms NCERT Solutions | Which organisms are called primitive and

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.

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.

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?

How do annelid animals differ from arthropods?

What are the differences between amphibians and reptiles?

In the hierarchy of classification, which grouping will have the smallest number of organisms with a maximum of characteristics in common and which will have the largest number of 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?

Define 1 watt of power.

An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate its speed if it takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth.

What can you say about the motion of an object if its speed-time graph is a straight line parallel to the time axis?

If an atom contains one electron and one proton, will it carry any charge or not?

Distinguish between speed and velocity.

Which of the following is true for displacement?

(a) It cannot be zero.
(b) Its magnitude is greater than the distance travelled by the object.

Abdul, while driving to school, computes the average speed for his trip to be 20 km h^-1. On his return trip along the same route, there is less traffic and the average speed is 40 km h^-1. What is the average speed for Abdul’s trip?

An athlete completes one round of a circular track of diameter 200 m in 40 s. What will be the distance covered and the displacement at the end of 2 minutes 20 s?

How are the wavelength and frequency of a sound wave related to its speed?

Why is it difficult to hold a school bag having a strap made of a thin and strong string?