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1. List the features of a lion, which help to make it a hunter of the grasslands
2. How is a camel adapted to life in a desert?
3. Compare the roots and leaves of plant on land and an aquatic plant.
4. How is a fish adapted to life in water?
5. What are the features of cactus plant that help it to flourish in desert?
6. How do animals like rats and snakes survive in a desert?
Things, which do not grow, move, or respond are called non-living things.
Things that grow, breathe, and respond are called living things.
(a) All living things grow: Infant grows into a child, Plants grow from seeds, Puppies
grow into dogs, and kittens grow into cats.
(b) All living things can move: Living things move from place to place in search of
food is called Locomotion
(c) All living things need food to live: Living things eat food to get energy to live.
(d) All living things Respire: Living things eat and digest foods that get oxidized in
body to release energy. This process is called Respiration. Respiration occurs inside
body. Exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen in living body is called breathing.
Breathing occur outside the body. Plant breath through stomata and animal through
nose. Small animal and microbes exchange gases by diffusion.
(e) All living things reproduce: Living things can produce young one of similar kinds.
This process is called reproduction. Some animal give birth to young ones like dog,
cow; Some animal lay eggs like bird, hen ; Plant grow from seeds ,stem and root etc.
(f) All living things respond: Living things can respond against touch, heat, light and
gravity called stimulus. Change in our surrounding that make living things respond
to them, are called stimuli. Touch me not plant show response to touch and its
leaves hang down.
(g) All living things are made up of different kinds of cells. Group of cell is called
tissue. Group of tissue is called organ. A group of organs is called organ system that
work together to keep our body live.
(h) Living things excrete: Living Things throw waste outside body like sweat, urine,
faeces. This process is called excretion. Plants excrete gum, leaves, latex etc
Q. What is habitat?
Answer: The surroundings where plants and animals live, is called their habitat. The
presence of specific features, which enable a plant or an animal to live in particular
habitat, is called adaptation.
Ans: Plants
Ans: Excretion
Q. what are the factors on which growth of living things depends on?
Ans: Growth in living things depends on: Food, climate, environment and life style
Q. List the way in which living and non living respond to external stimuli?
Ans: Living things respond to light, heat, smell, pain etc. We cry when any one prick
to us. leaves of plant wither in hot day, Leaves and stem of plant grow towards
light.non living thins change shape and size on heating or cooling.
Ans: We take lime water Ca (OH)2 in a beaker. Blow some air to mouth though a
straw. Lime tun milky that shows presence of carbon dioxide.
Ans: Root of plant show response to the earth gravity and grow in soil to get water
and mineral.
Q. Fire consume oxygen, moves from one place to other and respond to stimuli. Is
fire living .Justify
Ans: Climate , Distance from sun, wind speed any thousands of other factors
Ans: Exchange of gases in an earthworm takes place through its moist skin.
Ans: Autotrophs.
Q. Is desert habitat terrestrial or aquatic?
Ans: terrestrial
Q. What is the term used to describe the response of plant and animals to light?
Ans: Photo tropism
Q. What we name the Plants growing in dry desert area ?
Ans: Xerophytes
Q. What is decomposer?
Ans: Organism that feed on the dead and decay remains of plants and animal is called decomposer.
Ans: Cockroaches have some light receptors cells in their eyes which cannot tolerate the high
intensity light. This is the reason why they run toward darker areas during sunlight.
Ans: Biotic and abiotic components in a habitat depend on each other for survival for
example plants need sunlight and for photo synthesis and animal need oxygen for
respiration.
Ans: Because plants provide food to all animal and non- green plants
Ans: Because non-green plants animals are directly or indirectly eat food prepared by
plants.
Ans: Scavengers are those animals that feed (eat) on dead animals or plants and help to
keep environment clean.
Ans: A very tiny living organism that cannot be seen by necked eyes is called micro
organisms like bacteria and fungi.
Micro organisms feed on dead and decaying organic matter and break them into
nutrients that are used by plants so they are called decomposers.
Ans: Plants and animals show movements towards light is called photo tropism. Shot
move towards light called positive photo tropism and root move against light called
negative photo tropism.
Ans: Rizobium
11.Q.What is adaptations?
Ans: Living organism modifies themselves according to different types of habitat called
adaptations.
Ans: Herbivores feed on plants where as carnivores feed on flesh of other animals.
Ans: (i) Having streamline body shape that protect from wind
Ans. (i) Leaves and stem of plants wither (ii) Skin change into dark colour (iii) Affect
size of animals
growth of plants
12. Q. Distinguish between herbivores and carnivores?
Ans: Herbivores feed on plants where as carnivores feed on flesh of other animals.
13. Q. State any two flight adaptation in aerial animals?
Ans: 1.Hhaving streamline body shape that protect from wind
2. Having hollow bones called pneumatic bones
14.Q. How does temperature affect plants and animals?
Ans.
(i) Leaves and stem of plants wither
(ii) Skin change into dark colour
(iii) Affect size of animals
15.Q. What is the role of light on plants?
Ans:
(i) Help in photosynthesis
(ii) Help in fruit and flower developments
(iii) Help in growth of plants
16. Q.What types of adaptation seen in desert habitat?
Ans: (i) store water in body
Ans: Plants depends on sunlight and air for food. Animal depends on air and water for to
live. Decompose dead part of living organism and convert into organic matter that
develop soil fertility. Plants also maintain purity of atmosphere.
18. Q. What is the difference between a predator and a prey?
Ans: A predator is an animal that eats other animal, whereas a prey is an animal that is
eaten by a predator.
19. Q.How is a cactus adapted to survive in a desert?
Ans: cactus has a waxy surface to store water. It also has thorns to reduce loss of water.
It also have thick, fleshy stem.
20. Q. What is acclimisation?
Ans: Small changes that take place in body of single organism over short period to
overcome the small problems due to change in surrounding is called acclimisation.
21. Q. Give reasons: Why are deep sea worms blind?
Ans: As we move deep into seas and oceans the amount of light or the visibility
decreases. Deep sea worms are blind because of the lack of requirement. Some worms
have large eyes but those are not for the purpose of seeing . These worms have
developed strong sense of smell to encounter these problems.
22. Q. Give reasons: Why are some marine creatures living in the deep sea give out
light of thereof own?
Ans: Since there is lack of light in deep seas, some organisms can give out light to assist
them in finding their way in the dark.This also helps them in finding prey to feed on and
can also be used to find a mating partner.
23. Q. Give reasons: Why the upper surface of the leaves of lotus have a thick cuticle ?
Ans: Lotus is an aquatic plant. The leaves of the lotus plant have a thick waxy cuticle
that helps in repelling water and keeps the stomata open so that water transport
occurs effectively in plant.
24. Q. why do cockroaches hide as soon as the light is switched on?
Ans: Cockroaches cannot tolerate the high intensity light as they have some light
receptors in their eyes.
25. Q. Give two examples of non-living things which show any two characteristics of
living things.
Ans: Non-living things such as clouds grow in size and also move from one place to
another. Another non-living thing that shows two of the characteristics of living things is
a car which needs fuel (food) to function and also moves from one place
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Plant waste given out in the form of thick fluid is called as Latex
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10. The process of producing energy by the break down of food is called Respiration
11. Minute pores present in the leaves which help in exchange of gases are
called Stomata
12. The basic structural and functional unit of living organisms are called as Cells
13. Hydrilla is an example for Submerged Hydrophyte
14. Living component of a habitat is called as Biotic
15. Heterotrophs are organisms which cannot prepare their food.
16. Anything which produce and response in an organism is called as Stimulus