Class 9 Science - Chapter Natural Resources NCERT Solutions | What is soil erosion?

List any three human activities that you think would lead to air pollution.

What causes winds?

Why is the atmosphere essential for life?

Why do organisms need water?

Why is water essential for life?

We know that many human activities lead to increasing levels of pollution of the air, water-bodies and soil. Do you think that isolating these activities to specific and limited areas would help in reducing pollution?

List any three human activities which would lead to an increase in the carbon dioxide content of air.

How does the atmosphere act as a blanket?

How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus and Mars?

You have seen weather reports on television and in newspapers. How do you think we are able to predict the weather?

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.

Who discovered cells, and how?

What is meant by a pure substance?

A mass of 10 kg is at a point A on a table. It is moved to a point B. If the line joining A and B is horizontal, what is the work done on the object by the gravitational force? Explain your answer.

Make a comparison and write down ways in which plant cells are different from animal cells.

A battery lights a bulb. Describe the energy changes involved in the process.

A stone of 1 kg is thrown with a velocity of 20 m s^-1 across the frozen surface of a lake and comes to rest after travelling a distance of 50 m. What is the force of friction between the stone and the ice?

What would happen if the plasma membrane ruptures or breaks down?

Akhtar, Kiran and Rahul were riding in a motorcar that was moving with a high velocity on an expressway when an insect hit the windshield and got stuck on the windscreen. Akhtar and Kiran started pondering over the situation. Kiran suggested that the insect suffered a greater change in momentum as compared to the change in momentum of the motorcar (because the change in the velocity of the insect was much more than that of the motorcar). Akhtar said that since the motorcar was moving with a larger velocity, it exerted a larger force on the insect. And as a result the insect died. Rahul while putting an entirely new explanation said that both the motorcar and the insect experienced the same force and a change in their momentum. Comment on these suggestions

What are the differences between amphibians and reptiles?

Are the answers to the above questions necessarily the same or different? Why?

What are the various energy transformations that occur when you are riding a bicycle?