Define the term hybridization and photoperiod.
Hybridisation: Crossing between genetically dissimilar plants is called hybridisation. Hybridisation is done for increasing the crop yield and improving its quality.
Photoperiod: It refers to the time that a plant or animal is exposed to light in a 24-hour period. Many types of plants require certain lengths of light exposure to enter various life cycle stages.
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?
A bullet of mass 10 g travelling horizontally with a velocity of 150 m s-1 strikes a stationary wooden block and comes to rest in 0.03 s. Calculate the distance of penetration of the bullet into the block. Also calculate the magnitude of the force exerted by the wooden block on the bullet.
A stone is released from the top of a tower of height 19.6 m. Calculate its final velocity.
During an experiment, a signal from a spaceship reached the ground station in five minutes. What was the distance of the spaceship from the ground station? The signal travels at the speed of light, that is, 3 × 108 m s-1.
An echo returned in 3 s. What is the distance of the reflecting surface from the source, given that the speed of sound is 342 m s-1?
What is sound and how is it produced?
With the help of Table 4.1, find out the mass number of oxygen and sulphur atom.
Diagrammatically show the difference between the three types of muscle fibres.
If the organisation of a cell is destroyed due to some physical or chemical influence, what will happen?
Why are we normally advised to take bland and nourishing food when we are sick?
The average atomic mass of a sample of an element X is 16.2 u. What are the percentages of isotopes 168 X and 188 X in the sample?