What factors may be responsible for losses of grains during storage?
Biotic and abiotic factors are responsible for the loss of stored grains. During the storage of grains, various biotic factors such as insects, rodents, mites, fungi, bacteria, etc. and various abiotic factors such as inappropriate moisture, temperature, lack of sunlight, flood, etc. are responsible for losses of grains. These affect the quality, cause a loss in weight, discoloration of produce, thereby making the grains unfit for the market.
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?
What is genetic manipulation? How is it useful in agricultural practices?
How are fish obtained?
What are the desirable agronomic characteristics for crop improvements?
Which method is commonly used for improving cattle breeds and why?
How do biotic and abiotic factors affect crop production?
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?
A person is listening to a tone of 500 Hz sitting at a distance of 450 m from the source of the sound. What is the time interval between successive compressions from the source?
You have a bag of cotton and an iron bar, each indicating a mass of 100 kg when measured on a weighing machine. In reality, one is heavier than other. Can you say which one is heavier and why?
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.
Which organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell? Why?
A certain household has consumed 250 units of energy during a month. How much energy is this in joules?
In which of the three media, air, water or iron, does sound travel the fastest at a particular temperature?
What is the audible range of the average human ear?
Can you name the two organelles we have studied that contain their own genetic material?
List any three human activities which would lead to an increase in the carbon dioxide content of air.
How much momentum will a dumb-bell of mass 10 kg transfer to the floor if it falls from a height of 80 cm? Take its downward acceleration to be 10 m s-2.