Class X- Practice sheet
Winter break Assignment
1. An organism which breaks down the food material outside the body and then absorbs it is :
(A) Bread mould
(B) Cuscuta
(C) Lice
(D) Tapeworm
2. During respiration, exchange of gases occurs in:
(A) Alveoli (B) Bronchi
(C) Larynx (D) Trachea
3. In a nerve cell (neuron), the conversion of electrical signal to chemical signal occurs in/at:
(A) Dendritic end
(B) Cell body
(C) Axon
(D) Axonal end
4. The part of a seed that stores food, the future root and the future shoot respectively are :
(A) Plumule, radicle, cotyledon
(B) Cotyledon, plumule, radicle
(C) Cotyledon, radicle, plumule
(D) Radicle, plumule, cotyledon
5. Two pea plants, one round green (RRyy) seeds and another with wrinkled yellow (rrYY) seeds
produce F1 progeny that has round yellow (RrYy) seeds. If the F1 progeny plants are selfed, then
the minimum number of plants of the F2 progeny will have the following observable characters :
(A) Wrinkled green
(B) Wrinkled yellow
(C) Round green
(D) Round yellow
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Questions 8 to 10-
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of the
Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of
the Assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.
8. Assertion (A): Chromosomes inherited from the parents decide the sex of a child.
Reason (R): Y chromosome in a male child is inherited from the father.
9. Assertion (A): Sex of the children will be determined by what they inherit from their mother.
Reason (R): Women have XX sex chromosomes.
10. Assertion (A) : Green plants trap only 1% of the energy of sunlight that falls on their leaves.
Reason (R): All green plants are the producers in a food chain.
11. Give reason for the following: (2)
(a) Fine hair and mucus are present in the nasal passage.
(b) Rings of cartilage are present in the throat.
12. (a) Sometimes while running, the athletes suffer from muscle cramps. Why? How is the
respiration in this case different from aerobic respiration? (2)
OR
(b) Write the other name given to lymph. State its two functions.
13. Identify the organ in the human female reproductive system where the sperm encounters the
egg cell. What will happen if it is blocked? Name the technique by which it can be blocked. (2)
14. (a) Name the part of human brain which is responsible for the following actions:
(2)
(i) Thinking
(ii) Blood pressure
(iii) Maintaining posture and balance
(iv) Salivation
OR
(b) Name the organ/part of a plant which shows: (2)
(i) Positive hydrotropism
(ii) Positive phototropism
(iii) Negative geotropism
(iv) Positive chemotropism
15. (a) Name the (i) Hormone released, and the (ii) Gland which secretes it in human beings
during scary situations.
Explain how our body responds to enable it to deal with such situations. (3)
OR
(b) Name the plant growth hormone which is synthesized at the shoot tip. Explain why the shoot
of a potted plant bends towards light coming from a window.
16. Is it possible that a trait gets inherited, but not expressed? Give an example to justify your
answer. (3)
17. (a) What are decomposers ? Explain how the decomposers (i) Keep the environment clean,
and also (ii) replenish the soil nutrients. (3)
OR
18. The maintenance functions of every living organism on the earth keeps going on even when
they are not doing anything particular. The processes which together perform the job of
maintenance of life is known as life processes. These processes are nutrition, respiration,
transportation and excretion.
(i) List two types of nutrition. (1)
(ii) We eat food. What happens to this food during aerobic respiration in our body? (1)
(iii) (a) What is transpiration ? How is it useful to plants? (2)
OR
(iii) (b) Mention the pathway of urine starting from the organ of its formation. Name any two
substances which are reabsorbed from the initial filtrate in the tubular part of the nephron. (2)
19.
In the experimental set-up shown in the diagram
(I) atmospheric air is being passed into lime water with a syringe while in diagram
(II) air is being exhaled into lime water. The time taken for the lime water to turn milky in both
the test tubes is different. Give reason.
(ii) Draw the diagram of an open stomatal pore and label (I) Guard cells, and (II) Chloroplast on
it. Mention two functions performed by stomata. (5)