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HEAT AND ITS EFFECTS (April)

Q1- Give reason: Heat causes expansion.

Q2 Explain how the forms of energy can be converted to heat energy?
Q3- Give an example to show the conversion of heat energy to other forms of energy.
Q4- State the two effects of heat.
Q5- How liquid expand more than solid on heating.
Q6- Some space is left between two sections of the rail tracks give reason.
Q7- Why in steel bridges the end is made rest on rollers?
Q8-What is the utility of Pyrex glass?
Q9-Convert the following: (a) 25 deg to deg F

(b) 90 deg F to deg C

Q10-What is the name of instrument used to measure temperature what is its principle?

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Q1- What do green plants need to prepare their food?

Q2- How is energy obtained for photosynthesis by plants?
Q3- Why are all the non-green plants and animals heterotrophy?
Q4- define the terms : (1) parasites (2) Symbiosis
Q5- Why do all living organism required food?
Q6- What is all role of water in a plant?
Q7- What are the insectivorous plants?
Q8-Discuss the role of Rhizobium on the plants.
Q9- What is meant by saprotropic nutrition?
Q10- How nutrients are supplied to the plants in forests?

Ch-Nutrition in plants (May)

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Ch-Nutrition in animals (May)

Q1- Define Rumination.

Q2- What is meant by Assimilation and egesting?
Q3- How does a frog get its food?
Q4- What are the simulation in Amoeba and paramecium?
Q5- Show diagrammatically that the mouth parts of insects are modified to suits their feeding habits.
Q6- Explain the term Peristalsis.
Q7- Draw the tongue and show its various parts with the tastebuds.
Q8- What are the four types of teeth? Explain diagrammatically.
Q9- How the digestion and observation are observed in the small intestine?
Q10- Why the cow is termed as ruminant?

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CH-3
CLASS-7
STRUCTURE OF MATTER
Q1. What is matter made up of?
Q2. What is element?
Q3. What is compound?
Q4. How many atoms are known to us?
Q5. What are atoms and molecules?
Q6. What are the properties of compound?
Q7. What is the difference between compound and mixture?
Q8. What does the Berzelius system says?
Q9.What is atomicity?
Q10. What do you understand by balanced chemical equation?
Q11.What does a formula represent?
Q12. What do you understand by valences?
Q13.Write the chemical equation:
(a) Zinc react with hydrochloric acid to give zinc chloride and hydrogen
Q14. Write the formulae of following compound
(a) Glucose
(b) Nitric acid
(c) Potassium permanganate
Q15. Write the composition of hydrochloric acid and sulphuric acid.

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CH-4
ANIMALS FIBERS

Q1. Why we wear white cotton clothes in summers?

Q2. What type of clothes we wear in winter?
Q3. In which season we use raincoats, umbrellas and gumboots.
Q4. What are natural fibers?
Q5. Why a cotton garment cannot keep us as warm in winter?
Q6.Why wool yielding animals have a thick coat of hair?
Q7. Name the types of wool.
Q8. Draw the life cycle of a silk moth.
Q9. Mention the steps in silk production.
Q10. What is scouring?
Q11. Name three vegetable fibers.
Q12. Differentiate between animal and vegetables fibers.
Q13. What property of silk makes it so attractive?
Q14. What do you understand by incubation?
Q15. Define sericulture.

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CH-6
FLOW OF HEAT

Q1. Define the process of conduction.

Q2. What are the three ways to transfer the heat?
Q3. What is the difference between conductors and insulators?
Q4. What are the uses of good and bad conductors of heat?
Q5. Define the process convection.
Q6.Give reason: during the day, land heats up more than water.
Q7.What is the applications of convection?
Q8. What do you understand by radiation?
Q9. What are the applications of radiation?
Q10. Draw a neat labeled diagram of a thermos flask. How does it prevent transfer of heat by
conduction, convection and radiation?
Q11. Give reason: Refrigerators have double walls with space inside filled with insulating
materials.
Q12.Why are ventilators in house provided at the top of walls?
Q13- Why there is a vacuum between the two glass walls of thermo flask?
Q14- Why the back of refrigerators are colored dull black?
Q15. Name a liquid which is good conductor of heat.

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CH-7
ACIDS, BASES AND SALT

Q1. What are acids? Name any five acidic substances.

Q2- What are bases? Name any five basic substances.
Q3. What happens when acid and base react with each other?
Q4. What are indicators? Name some common indicators.
Q5. What are the types of acids? Write an example of each.
Q6. Write the properties of acid.
Q7. What happen when?
(a) Metals react with acid.
(b) Acid react with carbonates.
Q8. Write any three uses of nitric acid.
Q9. What do you understand by neutralization?
Q10. What are the types of bases?
Q11. Write the properties of bases.
Q12. Write reaction of base with acid with a suitable example.
Q13. Write the uses of sodium peroxide.
Q14. What is the relation between acid and base?
Q15. Write the properties of salt.

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CH-8

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGES

Q1. What are physical changes explain with an example.

Q2. What are the chemical changes explain with an example.
Q3. Define galvanization.
Q4. What are the characteristics of chemical reaction?
Q5. What are exothermic and endothermic reactions explain with an example of each.
Q6. Write the types of chemical reaction.
Q7. What do you understand by double displacement reaction?
Q8. What is neutralization reaction?
Q9. Write an example of decomposition reaction.
Q10. 2Mg + O2 ------- 2MgO
What type of reaction it is?
Q11. What do you understand by oxidation and reduction reaction?
Q12. What are oxidizing agent and reducing agent?
Q13. How we can separate solid from solution?
Q14. What is crystallization?
Q15. Discuss the methods by which rusting can be prevented.

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CH-9
WEATHER, CLIMATE AND ADAPTATION

Q1. What does weather report represent?

Q2. What do you understand by weather?
Q3. What are the elements of weather?
Q4. Name the instrument by which humidity is measured.
Q5. Why are cloudy nights warmer than clear night?
Q6. Who called meteorologists?
Q7. What do you understand by climate?
Q8.What are the factors that determine the climate of a place?
Q9. What is the effect of sun on climate?
Q10. What is the longest and shortest duration between the sunrise and sunset in northern
hemisphere?
Q11. How does the climate affect the living organisms?
Q12. What are the ways in which animals reduce heat loss?
Q13. What are the ways in which animals keep them cool in extreme hot climate?
Q14. How camel does adapted it in deserts?
Q15. How the elephant is well adapted to living in rainforests?

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CH-10
SOIL

Q1.What is the soil composed of?

Q2. What is the function of humus?
Q3. Name the living organisms live in soil.
Q4. Why earthworms are called farmers friends?
Q5. How soil is formed?
Q6. What is the role of water in weathering of rocks?
Q7.Name the three layers of soil.
Q8. What are the types of soil?
Q9. What are main kinds of rock particles can be found in topsoil?
Q10. What do you understand by alluvial soil?
Q11. What are the properties of soil?
Q12. What are factors that affect the type of soil found at a place?
Q13. What type of soil is required for wheat and gram?
Q14. What are the uses of soil?
Q15. Distinguish between clay, slit and sand.

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CH-11
RESPIRATION

Q1. What do you understand by respiration?

Q2. What are the two main Process of respiration?
Q3. How respiration occurs in plants?
Q4. Write the chemical equation involve in respiration.
Q5. How the exchange of gases takes place in plants?
Q6. How does root takes up oxygen?
Q7. How the exchange of gases takes place in following:
(a) Amoeba (b) Insects (c) Fish (d) frog
Q8. Draw the well labeled diagram of human respiratory system.
Q9. Explain the human respiratory system.
Q10. What is epiglottis? What is it function?
Q11. What are the types of respiration?
Q12. Differentiate the following:
(a) Combustion and cellular respiration
(b) Breathing and cellular respiration
Q13. How cramps occur in our body?
Q14.What is oxidation? Write chemical equation involve in it.
Q15.Why does the breathing becomes faster while doing exercise

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CH-12

TRANSPORTATION OF MATERIALS IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS

Q1. What is vascular system?

Q2. What are functions of xylem and phloem?
Q3. What is osmosis?
Q4. What is transpiration?
Q5. What is translocation?
Q6. What are the types of blood cells?
Q7. What are the function of arteries and veins and capillaries?
Q8. Draw the well labeled structure of human heart.
Q9. What do you understand by excretion?
Q10. Draw the well labeled structure of nephron.
Q11.What is the function of kidney?
Q12. What do you understand by dialysis?
Q13. Discuss the process of absorption of water by root hairs.
Q14. How sweating helps us to cool down our body?
Q15. Differentiate between arteries and veins?

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CH-13
REPRODUCTION IN PLANTS

Q1. What do you understand by reproduction?

Q2. What is the reproductive part of plant?
Q3. What are the two main method of reproduction?
Q4. What do you understand by fragmentation?
Q5. What is spore formation?
Q6.What is vegetative reproduction?
Q7. What are the advantages of vegetative reproduction?
Q8. Define the term pollination.
Q9. Draw the well labeled structure of a flower.
Q10. What are the types of pollination occurs in plants?
Q11. What is fertilization?
Q12.What are the agents of dispersal of seeds?
Q13. How does yeast reproduce?
Q14. Explain the following: a. cutting b. layering c. grafting
Q15. Explain the process of tissue culture.

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CH-14
MOTION AND TIME

Q1. What do you understand by measurement?

Q2. Name some standard units.
Q3. Name some commonly used units of time.
Q4.On which principle does sundial works?
Q5. What is simple pendulum, on which principle does it works?
Q6. Define speed. And what is its unit?
Q7.The distance between Punjab and Delhi is around 255km. a bus takes 6 hours to travel
from Punjab to Delhi. At what speed does it travel?
Q8.Name the instruments which are used to measure the speed distance in vehicles.
Q9. What are the two types of motion?
Q10. Draw the distance-time graph using following information.

TIME

ODOMETER
READING

DISTANCE(IN
Km)
FROM LAMPPOST

9:00am
9.05am
9.10am
9.15am
9.20am

5630
5632
5635
5636
5640

0
2
5
6
10

DISTANCE
(IN Km)
TRAVELLED IN 5MINUTE
INTERVAL
2
3
1
4

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CH-15
WIND, STROMS AND CYCLONES

Q1. What do you understand by natural disasters?

Q2. Which cyclone had come in 2009 in west Bengal, Odessa and Bangladesh?
Q3. What do you understand by cyclone?
Q4. Explain the concept of air pressure with the help of diagram.
Q5. Name the daily activities in which we experience air pressure.
Q6. Show by an experiment that how pressure reduces when air moves with high speed.
Q7. What do you understand by wind currents?
Q8. What precautions should be taken during thunderstorm?
Q9. Name some natural disasters.
Q10. What do you understand by tornado?
Q11. What precaution should be taken for cyclone-prone regions?
Q12. Describe the eye of cyclone.
Q13. Draw the structure of cyclone.
Q14.What causes tornado to be formed?
Q15. Development and movement of cyclones are studied by which department?

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CH-16
LIGHT

Q1.Show by an experiment that how light travels in straight line?

Q2. What is reflection? Shoe by an experiment how it occurs.
Q3. Write the difference between virtual and real image.
Q4. What are the properties of image formed by plane mirror?
Q5. Why the word AMBULANCE is written opposite on ambulance?
Q6. What do you understand by spherical mirrors? Name the types of spherical mirror.
Q7. Write the difference between convex mirror and concave mirror.
Q8. Draw concave and convex mirror.
Q9. What type images are formed by concave and convex mirror?
Q10. What are the uses of concave and convex mirrors?
Q11.Define lens and write the types of lenses.
Q12.What is principle focus of concave and convex Lens show by diagram.
Q13.What are the types of images formed by lenses?
Q14. What do you understand by spectrum?
Q15.What is the relation between angle of incidence and angle of reflection of plane mirror?

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CH-17
ELECTRIC CURRENT AND ITS EFFECTS

Q1.What is an electric circuit?

Q2.What are the components of electric circuit?
Q3. Draw the symbols of some common circuit elements.
Q4.Draw a simple circuit diagram consisting of a battery, a switch and a lamp.
Q5. What do you understand by potential difference?
Q6.Name the instrument used to measure the current in a circuit.
Q7.What are the effects of electric current?
Q8. Write some application of heating effects of current?
Q9.What is solenoid how it is acts as a bar magnet explain with diagram.
Q10.What is electromagnet how it form n what are its uses?
Q11. Explain the construction and working of electric bell.
Q12. Magnetic effect of current was first introduced by which scientist?
Q13. How electric fuse is works?
Q14. Draw a circuit diagram of a dry cell connected to a bulb through a switch.
Q15. What is miniature circuit breaker?

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CH-18
WATER- A NATURAL RESOURCES

Q1. What are the natural resources?

Q2.In how many ways we use the resources of earth?
Q3. Where from we get the natural resources?
Q4. What are the types of natural resources?
Q5. Differentiate the renewable and non-renewable resources.
Q6. In what forms water is found on the earth?
Q7. Why water is essential for us?
Q8. What are exhaustible and inexhaustible resources?
Q9. Why so much of water is not usable on earth?
Q10.How the state of water can be changed by cooling or heating?
Q11. What do you understand by condensation?
Q12. Define water cycle and explain it with the help of diagram.
Q13.What happens to the rainfall which falls on earth?
Q14. Write the method to conserve the water.
Q15. What are the reason of depleting the water table from earth?

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CH-19
OUR FOREST

Q1.Define the following: (a) crown (b) canopy (c) under storey.
Q2. What are the uses of forests?
Q3. How animals help the plants in their survival?
Q4.What are producers, consumers and decomposers?
Q5. Differentiate between the primary consumers and secondary consumers.
Q6. Define food chain. Draw its flow chart and diagram.
Q7. How energy flows in food chain explain with the help of example?
Q8. How balance in nature maintained?
Q9.What is deforestation?
Q10. What are the methods to conserve the forests?
Q11. Name any two medicinal plants?
Q12. How are forest fire controlled?
Q13. When you conserve forests, you also conserve soil. Discuss.
Q14. Name five products that we get from forests.
Q15. A forest has no waste. Why?

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CH-20
WASTEWATER MANGEMENT

Q1. What do you understand by waste water?

Q2. Where from the waste water generated?
Q3.Why disposal of sewage is necessary?
Q4. What are the importance of drainage and sanitation?
Q5. Explain sewage system with the help of diagram.
Q6. What do you understand by sewage treatment?
Q7. What is WWTP explain it.
Q8. How one can keep water system clean?
Q9. What are the alternative methods for sewage disposal?
Q10. What is vermicomposting?