Class 9 Science - Chapter Diversity in Living Organisms NCERT Solutions | In the hierarchy of classification, whic

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.

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?

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?

Why do you fall in the forward direction when a moving bus brakes to a stop and fall backwards when it accelerates from rest?

On the basis of Thomson’s model of an atom, explain how the atom is neutral as a whole.

For any substance, why does the temperature remain constant during the change of state?

When 3.0 g of carbon is burnt in 8.00 g oxygen, 11.00 g of carbon dioxide is produced. What mass of carbon dioxide will be formed when 3.00 g of carbon is burnt in 50.00 g of oxygen? Which law of chemical combination will govern your answer?

How do storage grain losses occur?

Convert into mole.

(a) 12 g of oxygen gas
(b) 20 g of water
(c) 22 g of carbon dioxide.

A submarine emits a sonar pulse, which returns from an underwater cliff in 1.02 s. If the speed of sound in salt water is 1531 m/s, how far away is the cliff?

The mass per unit volume of a substance is called density. (density = mass/volume). Arrange the following in order of increasing density – air, exhaust from chimneys, honey, water, chalk, cotton and iron.

Two children are at opposite ends of an aluminium rod. One strikes the end of the rod with a stone. Find the ratio of times taken by the sound wave in air and in aluminium to reach the second child.

Describe with the help of a diagram, how compressions and rarefactions are produced in air near a source of sound.