Class 9 Science - Chapter Improvement in Food Resources NCERT Solutions | Compare the use of manure and fertilizer

How do you differentiate between capture fishing, mariculture and aquaculture?

Explain any one method of crop production which ensures high yield.

How do good animal husbandry practices benefit farmers?

What are the desirable characters of bee varieties suitable for honey production?

How do plants get nutrients?

How are fish obtained?

What is genetic manipulation? How is it useful in agricultural practices?

What are the desirable agronomic characteristics for crop improvements?

What factors may be responsible for losses of grains during storage?

Which method is commonly used for improving cattle breeds and why?

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?

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

What is loudness of sound? What factors does it depend on?

What is the physical state of water at—

(a) 25°C          (b) 0°C          (c) 100°C ?

Why is it advised to tie any luggage kept on the roof of a bus with a rope?

In what direction does the buoyant force on an object immersed in a liquid act?

Calculate the molecular masses of H₂, O₂, Cl₂, CO₂, CH₄, C₂H₆, C₂H₄, NH₃, CH₃OH.

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?

Which organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell? Why?

Distinguish between speed and velocity.

Why are sound waves called mechanical waves?