Class 9 Science - Chapter Natural Resources NCERT Solutions | What are the two forms of oxygen found i

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?

Who discovered cells, and how?

Give two reasons to justify—

(a) water at room temperature is a liquid.
(b) an iron almirah is a solid at room temperature.

Write down the names of following formulae:

(i) Al₂(SO₄)₃
(ii) CaCl₂
(iii) K₂SO₄
(iv) KNO₃
(v) CaCO₃.

Why does our palm feel cold when we put some acetone or petrol or perfume on it?

A train is travelling at a speed of 90 km h^-1. Brakes are applied so as to produce a uniform acceleration of – 0.5 m s^-2. Find how far the train will go before it is brought to rest.

With the help of Table 4.1, find out the mass number of oxygen and sulphur atom.

How do biotic and abiotic factors affect crop production?

In the hierarchy of classification, which grouping will have the smallest number of organisms with a maximum of characteristics in common and which will have the largest number of organisms?

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.