Suppose you are in a dark room. Can you see objects in the room? Can
you see objects outside the room. Explain.
You are provided with the seeds of gram, wheat, rice, pumpkin, maize and
pea. Classify them whether they are monocot or dicot.
Fill in the blanks
(a) Fungi shows———mode of nutrition.
(b) Cell wall of fungi is made up of ———.
(c) Association between blue green algae and fungi is called as———.
(d) Chemical nature of chitin is ———.
(e) ———has smallest number of organisms with maximum number of similar characters
(f) Plants without well differentiated stem, root and leaf are kept in ———.
(g) ———are called as amphibians of the plant kingdom.
The weather department has predicted that a thunderstorm is likely to
occur on a certain day. Suppose you have to go out on that day. Would you
carry an umbrella? Explain.
Suppose you are outside your home and an earthquake strikes. What
precaution would you take to protect yourself?
Write true (T) or false (F)
(a) Whittaker proposed five kingdom classification.
(b) Monera is divided into Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.
(c) Starting from Class, Species comes before the Genus.
(d) Anabaena belongs to the kingdom Monera.
(e) Blue green algae belongs to the kingdom Protista.
(f) All prokaryotes are classified under Monera.
Meena and Hari observed an animal in their garden. Hari called it an insect
while Meena said it was an earthworm. Choose the character from the
following which confirms that it is an insect.
(a) Bilateral symmetrical body
(b) Body with jointed legs
(c) Cylindrical body
(d) Body with little segmentation
The ‘Origin of Species’ is written by
(a) Linnaeus
(b) Darwin
(c) Hackel
(d) Whittaker