CH-6 LIFE PROCESSES This is because plants store the food

prepared by the process of photosynthesis

QUESTIONS as starch. Starch reacts with iodine
solution to give blue-black colour. In this
1. (a) Name the process and explain the
experiment, only those portions of the leaf
type of nutrition found in green plants. List
that were exposed to light could
the raw materials required for this
photosynthesise. Hence, the uncovered
process. Give chemical equation for the
portion of the leaf gives blue-black colour
mentioned process.
when tested with iodine. The covered
(b) Write three events that occur during portion does not change its colour when
this process. treated with iodine solution. Thus, it can
be concluded that the sunlight is essential
2. Define heterotrophic nutrition. What are for photosynthesis.
the various types of heterotrophic
nutrition? Give examples of each. 4. (a) A gas is released during
photosynthesis. Name the gas and also
3. Describe an experiment to show that state the way by which the gas is evolved.
"sunlight is essential for photosynthesis."
(b) What are stomata? What governs the
Ans. Sunlight is essential for opening and closing of stomata?
Photosynthesis: A healthy green potted
plant is placed in a dark room for 1-2 days. 5. (a) Draw a diagram of human
This is done to ensure that the plant alimentary canal and label - gall bladder,
consumes all its reserve food and the pancreas, liver and small intestine on it.
leaves do not contain any starch. Both
(b) Give two reasons to explain why
sides of a green leaf is covered with two
absorption of digested food occurs mainly
uniform pieces of black paper and then fix
in the small intestine.
the cover in position with two paper
clips.Now, the plant is exposed to bright 6. Leaves of a healthy potted plant were
light. After few hours, the leaf is removed coated with vaseline. Will this plant
and it is decolourised with alcohol. Now, remain healthy for long? Give reasons for
the presence of food (starch) is tested by your answer.
putting iodine solution on the leaf. It can
be observed that the covered portion of Ans. The leaves of a healthy plant coated
the leaf does not show any presence of with vaseline would not stay healthy
starch (food). because vaseline coating will block the
stomata. In the plant, there will be no
intake of carbon dioxide from the
surrounding to carry out the process of
photosynthesis because the pores of
stomata are blocked by the vaseline.

7. What are stomata? Draw a labelled

diagram of stomata. Write any two
functions of stomata

8. Bile juice does not contain any digestive

enzymes, yet it is essential for digestion,
why so? Explain
9. Given below is the experimental set-up 13. State the role of the following in
to establish that one of the atmospheric human digestive system:
gases is essential for photosynthesis in
plants. (a) Digestive enzymes

(b) Hydrochloric acid

(c) Villi

14. In human alimentary canal, name the

site of complete digestion of various
components of food. Explain the process
of digestion.

15. (a) 1 ml of dilute starch solution (1%

starch solution) is taken in test tube and 1
ml of saliva is added to it. After keeping
the mixture for an hour, few drops of
iodine solution are added to the test tube.
10. (a) Name the atmospheric gas which is Is there any change in the colour of the
essential for photosynthesis. test tube? What does this tell you about
the action of saliva on starch?
(b) What is kept in watch-glass in figure 'a'
and why? (b) How would digestion of food be
affected if the bile duct is completely
(c) Write the balanced chemical equation
blocked? Explain
for the process of photosynthesis.
16. (a) Where are salivary glands situated
(d) When do the desert plants takeup
in man? What are their functions?
carbon dioxide and perform
photosynthesis? (b) Name the first digestive organ that is
associated with the breakdown of proteins
11. Name the main organs of the human
in humans. What are its three releases?
digestive system in the order they
participate in the process of digestion. 17.(a) Write the functions of large
Describe how digestion of carbohydrates intestine in man.
and proteins take place in our body.
(b) What is dental caries? What is its
12. (a) How does Paramecium obtain its adverse effect?
food?
18. (a) Explain the process of nutrition in
(b) List the role of each of the following in Amoeba. (b) If you chew chapatti for long
our digestive system: after some time it tastes sweet? Why is
this so?
(i) Hydrochloric acid
19. In each of the following situations what
(ii) Trypsin
happens to the rate of photosynthesis?
(iii) Muscular walls of stomach
(a) Cloudy days
(iv) Salivary amylase
(b) Stomata gets blocked due to dust
20. (a) What is peristaltic movement? Ans. Just before Starch Test-Pale yellow

(b) 'Stomata remain closed in desert Just after Starch test - Blue black
plants during daytime'. How do they do
photosynthesis? 6CO₂+ 6H₂O Chlorophyll Sunlight →
C6H12O6+ 602
21. There are various muscles present in
the human digestive system known as O2 is obtained from water (H2O), as
sphincters. Two examples of those are splitting of water results in formation of
given below: hydrogen (used for making glucose) and
oxygen (by-product).
(i) pyloric sphincter - at the junction of
stomach and small intestine 28. The inner lining of the small intestine
has numerous fingers like projections.
(ii) anal sphincter - at the anus What are they called? List their functions

Give ONE most likely consequence of 29. List the role of each of the following in
malfunctioning of each of these our digestive system:
sphincters.
(i) Muscles of Stomach wall
22. Patients whose gall bladder are
removed are recommended to eat less oily 30. State the location and the function of
food. Why? gastric glands?

23. How would it affect the digestion of 31. What is the role of acid in our
proteins and carbohydrates in the stomach?
duodenum of man if there is a blockage in
32. Describe heterotrophic mode of
the pancreatic duct? Explain.
nutrition and give its examples. Name the
24. How would digestion of food be three types of this nutrition.
affected if the bile duct is completely
33. Where does digestion start in our
blocked? Explain.
alimentary canal? Name the enzyme
25. What is the role of HCl in protein secreted in that part and write its function.
digestion?
34. (i) Name the extensively coiled
26. What is the role of saliva in the structure of alimentary canal.
digestion of food?
(ii) Compare length of the small intestine
27. A variegated leaf with green and in herbivores and carnivores.
yellow patches is used for an experiment
35. Name a common nutrient that is
to prove that chlorophyll is required for
absorbed in the small intestine and
photosynthesis. Before the experiment,
reabsorbed by the kidney tubules.
the green portions (A), and the pale-yellow
portions (B), are observed. What will be 36.What is the role of saliva in the
the colour of 'A' just before and after the digestion of not food?
starch test? Also write the equation of
photosynthesis and mark, as well as 37. Where does digestion of fat takes
validate from which molecule the by- place in our body?
product is obtained.
38. Mention the organ and site of (c) Name the balloon likes structures
photosynthesis in green plants. What are present in lungs. List its two functions.
the raw materials essential for this
process? How are they obtained? Write (d) Name the respiratory pigment and
complete balanced chemical equation for write its role in human beings.
the process. Name the by-products.
43. How does aerobic respiration differ
39. a) State the form in which the from anaerobic respiration?
following are stored:
44. All plants give out oxygen during day
(i) Unused carbohydrates in plants and carbon dioxide during night". Do you
agree with this statement? Give reason.
(ii) The energy derived from food in
humans. 45. How are the lungs designed in human
beings to maximise the area for exchange
(b) Describe the process of nutrition in of gases?
Amoeba with the help of diagram.
46. The rate of breathing in aquatic
(c) How does Paramecium obtain its food? organisms is much faster than that seen in
terrestrial organisms. Give reason.
40. (a) Draw a well labelled diagram of
human alimentary canal, and label the 47. Explain the activity with diagram to
following parts: show that carbon dioxide is essential for
photosynthesis
(i) Liver
48. Explain the processes of aerobic
(ii) Pancreas respiration in mitochondria of a cell and
anaerobic respiration in yeast and muscle
(iii) Small intestine
with the help of word equations.
(iv) Large intestine.
49. Define breathing. Explain the
(b) What is peristaltic movement? mechanism of breathing in human beings

41. If one holds his breath after expiration 50. Name the energy currency in the living
for about 30 sec., would there still be organisms. When and where is it
occurring any exchange of respiratory produced?
gases in the lungs during this period?
51. Where does aerobic respiration occur
Explain.
in a cell?
Ans: The exchange of gases will continue.
52. Name the respiratory pigment in
Even after forceful expiration, some
human beings. Where is this pigment
volume of air remains in the lungs, which
found?
is called residual volume. Exchange of
gases continues because of this air. 53. a) Why is there a difference in the rate
of breathing between aquatic organisms
42.(a) Write the reaction that occurs when
and terrestrial organisms? Explain.
glucose breaks down anaerobically in
yeast. (b) Draw a diagram of human respiratory
system and label - pharynx, trachea,
(b) Write the mechanism by which fishes
lungs, diaphragm and alveolar sac on it.
breath in water.
54. (c) Name the balloon likes structures Method:
present in lungs. List its two functions.
(i) Take two small pots of approximately
55. (a) Write the reaction that occurs equals having equal amount of soil.
when glucose breaks down anaerobically
in yeast. (ii) One should have a plant and place a
stick in another pot.
56. (a) Why do the walls of a trachea not
collapse when there is less air in it? (iii) Cover the soil in both the pots with a
plastic sheet so that moisture cannot
(b) How are lungs designed in human escape by evaporation.
beings to maximise the area for exchange
of gases? (iv) Cover both the sets with a separate
plastic sheet and place in bright sunlight
57. Name the tissues which (i) transport for half an hour.
soluble products of photosynthesis in
plants, (ii) transport water and minerals in Observation: Drop of water appear on
a plant. the inner side of polythene sheet in the
pot with a green plant. Whereas no such
58. What process in plants is known as drops appear in the pot with a stick.
transpiration?
Result: As water drops appear only in the
59. Name the component of blood pot with a green plant, it can be concluded
transport: which that water drops appeared due to
transpiration. While the pot with stick does
(i) Food, carbon dioxide and nitrogenous not have any drop as no plant was
wastes present.

(ii) Oxygen. 63. List two types of the transport system

in human beings and write the functions of
60. Name the process of loss of water in
any one of these.
the form of vapour from the aerial parts of
the plants. 64. Define transpiration. State its two
functions.
61. Write three types of blood vessels.
Give one important feature of each. 65. (a) What is translocation? Why is it
essential for plants? (b) Where do the
62. Define the term transpiration. Design
substances in plants reach as a result of
an experiment to demonstrate this
translocation?
process.
66. Define the term transpiration. Design
Ans: The loss of water in the form of
an experiment to demonstrate this
vapour from the aerial parts of the plant is
process.
known as transpiration.
67. Write three types of blood vessels.
Experiment to demonstrate
Give one important feature of each.
transpiration:
68. Name the tissues which (i) transport
Requirements: Two small pots, soil, a
soluble products of photosynthesis in
green plan a stick of same height as of
plants, (ii) transport water and minerals in
green plant and plastic sheets.
a plant.
69. What process in plants is known as 78. a) Draw a diagram of cross-section of
transpiration? the human heart and label the following
parts:
70. Name the transport: component of
blood which (i) Right ventricle

(i) Food, carbon dioxide and nitrogenous (ii) Aorta

wastes
(iii) Left atrium
(ii) Oxygen.
(iv) Pulmonary arteries.
71. Name the process of loss of water in
the form of vapour from the aerial parts of
the plants.
(b) Give reasons for the following:
72. (a) How does the transport of
(i) The muscular walls of ventricles are
materials in xylem and phloem occurs?
thicker than the walls of atria.
(b) What is translocation?
(ii) Arteries have thick elastic walls.
73. Write three points of differences
(a) Mention any two components of blood.
between artery and vein.
(b) Trace the movement of oxygenated
74. Explain:
blood in the body.
(i) Blood goes only once through the heart
(c) Write the function of valves present in
in fishes.
between atria and ventricles.
(ii) Plants have low energy needs.
(d) Write the structural difference between
(iii) What are capillaries? the composition of artery and veins.

75. (i) Mention the site of exchange of 79. (a) Mention any two components of
material between the blood and blood.
surrounding cells.
(b) Trace the movement of oxygenated
(ii) Draw a schematic representation of blood in the body.
transport and exchange of oxygen and
(c) Write the function of valves present in
carbon dioxide.
between the composition of atria and
76. Plants absorb water from the soil. ventricles.
Explain how does the water reach the tree
(d) Write one structural difference
top?
between the composition of artery and
77. (i) Identify any two parts from the veins.
above diagram which carry oxygenated
80. Mention the pathway of urine starting
and deoxygenated blood.
from the morgan of its formation. Name
ii) Explain the process of double four substances which are reabsorbed
circulation with the help of a flow chart. from the initial filtrate in the tubular part
of the nephron.
81. Name one nitrogenous waste present 87. A major portion of the carbohydrates
in urine. What is the basic filtration unit of produced by plants is stored in different
kidney called? How is the amount of urine parts of the plant (storage organs).
produced regulated? Explain the mechanism by which this
stored food is made available when
82. How do leaves of plants help in different organs need it for growth.
excretion?
88. Mention the three kinds of cells
83. (a) Draw a diagram of human present in blood. Write one function of
excretory system and label the following each.
parts on it:
89. List the three kinds of blood vessels of
(i) Right Renal Artery human circulatory system and write their
functions in tabular form.
(ii) Vena cava.
Or
(iii) Urinary bladder
Write three types of blood vessels. Give
(iv) Left kidney
one important feature of each.
(b) List two vital functions of kidney.
90. Draw a diagram of the front view of
84.(i) Draw a diagram of an excretory unit human heart and label any six parts
of a human kidney and label the following: including at least two, that are concerned
Bowman's capsule, Glomerulus, Collecting with arterial blood supply to the heart
duct, Renal artery. muscles.

(ii) Write the important function of the 91. (a) Label any 4 parts in the given
structural and functional unit of kidney. diagram.

(iii) Write any one function of an artificial (b) What are the two functions
kidney. represented in this diagram?

85. (a) Define excretion.

(b) Name the basic filtration unit present

in the kidney.

(c) Draw excretory system in human being

and label the following organs of excretory
system which perform following functions:

(i) form urine

(ii) is a long tube which collects urine from

kidney

(iii) store urine until it is passed out.

92. Write one function of each of the
86. Draw a diagram of human respiratory
following components of the transport
system and label - pharynx, trachea,
system in human beings:
lungs, diaphragm and alveolar sac on it.
(a) Blood vessels 98. (a) Name the blood vessel that brings
oxygenated blood to the human heart.
(b) Lymph
99. (b) Which chamber of human heart
(c) Heart receives oxygenated blood?

93. What is blood pressure? How it is (c) Explain how oxygenated blood from
measured? this chamber is sent to all parts of the
body
Give one difference between systolic
pressure and diastolic pressure. 100. What is the advantage of separate
chambers in mammals and birds for
94. (a) What is double circulation?
oxygenated and deoxygenated blood?
(b) Why is the separation of the right side
101. Write one specific function each of
and the left side of the heart useful? How
the following organs in relation with
does it help birds and mammals?
excretion in human beings:
95. How is lymph an important fluid
(i) Renal Artery
involved in transportation? If lymphatic
vessels get blocked, how would it affect (ii) Urethra
the human body? Elaborate.
(iii) Glomerulus
96. Human beings exhibit 'double
circulation' during which blood is passed (iv) Tubular part of nephron
through the lungs and heart.
102. (a) Name two excretory products
(a) State the route of the first and the other than O₂ and CO, in plants.
second circulation through the chambers
of the heart and explain the usefulness of (b) Why is urine yellow in colour?
such circulation in humans.
103. Name the substances other than
(b) Name the blood vessels that: water, that are reabsorbed during urine
formation. What are the two parameters
(i) carry oxygenated blood from the lungs that decide the amount of water that is
to the heart. reabsorbed in the kidney?

(ii) carry deoxygenated blood from the 104. The Figure shown below represents
heart to the lungs. an activity to prove the requirements for
photosynthesis. During this activity, two
97. (a) Mention any two components of healthy potted plants were kept in the
blood. dark for 72 hours. After 72 hours, KOH is
kept in the watch glass in setup X and not
(b) Trace the movement of oxygenated
in setup Y. Both these setups are air tight
blood in the body.
and have been kept in light for 6 hours.
(c) Write the function of valves present in Then, lodine Test is performed with one
between atria and ventricles. leaf from each of the two plants X and Y.

(d) Write one structural difference

between the composition of artery and
veins.
(a) This experimental set up is used to
prove essentiality of which requirements
of photosynthesis?

(b) What is the function of KOH?

(c) What are the correct results of lodine

Test performed on the leaf from plant X
and Y respectively?

OR

(c). Give two steps that can be followed

for making the apparatus air tight?

105. (a) Write the correct sequence of

steps followed during journey of oxygen
rich blood from lungs to various organs of
human body.

(b) What happens when the system of

blood vessels develops a leak?

106. (a) Why is nutrition necessary for the

human body?

(b) What will happen if mucus is not

secreted by the gastric glands?