दर्पण

DT-SAII-1

A Premier Institute
CLASS-IX

BIOLOGY
Time allowed : 1 hr 30 min Maximum Marks : 50

Important instructions
1. The question paper comprises of four sections – A, B, C and D. You are to attempt all the sections.
2. Question numbers 1 and 10 in Section-A are one mark questions.
3. Question numbers 11 to 15 in Section- B are two marks questions. These are to be answered in about
25 words each.
4. Question numbers 16 to 20 in Section-C are three marks questions. These are to be answered in
about 35 words each.
5. Question number 21 to 23 in section- D is 5 marks question. It is to be answered in about 50 words.
6. All questions are compulsory.
Section-A
1. An object is thrown vertically upwards and 4. 50 gm sugar is dissolved in a glass of water at
rises to a height of 10 m. calculate the velocity 30°C. On heating this solution it will
with which the object was thrown upwards? (a) crystallise
Take g=9.8 m/s 2 (b) evaporate
(a) 14 m/s (c) become unsaturated
(b) 16 m/s (d) diluted
(c) 10 m/s 5. Which are laws of Newton’s?
(d) 9.8 m/s (a) Law stating action and reaction are equal
2. The Weight of the body at a certain place is 30 and opposite
(b) Product of mass and acceleration.
N. The acceleration due to gravity at that point
(c) Tendency of a body to oppose any change
is 10 m/s2. Find out the mass and weight of the in its state of rest or uniform motion
object at the place where acceleration due to (d) All the above
gravity is zero? 6. Pick up the odd one out
(a) 3 kg ,0 N (a) Brass
(b) 3 Kg, 30 N (b) Air
(c) 3 Kg, 3N (c) Sand
(d) None of these (d) Graphite
3. Cooking of rice at higher altitude is difficult
7. The tissue present in the lining of kidney
because
tubules and ducts of salivary glands is
(a) Boiling point of water is constant
(a) Squamous epithelium tissue
(b) Water boils at 100 ˚C
(b) Glandular epithelium tissue
(c) Water boils less than 100 ˚C
(c) Cuboidal epithelium tissue
(d) None of these
(d) Columnar epithelium tissue

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8. The cells of cork are dead and have a chemical in their walls that makes them impervious to gases and water.
The chemical is
(a) Lignin
(b) Suberin
(c) Cutin
(d) Wax
9. The inner membrane of mitochondria is folded because
(a) it has no space inside
(b) it helps in transportation of material
(c) it increases the surface area
(d) it stores more food
10. The spindle shaped cells, uninucleated and unbranched are present in muscular tissue of
(a) striated muscles
(b) smooth muscles
(c) cardiac muscle
(d) both (a) and (b)
Section-B
11. For any substance, why does the temperature remain constant during the change of state?
12. How would you confirm that a colourless liquid given to you is pure water?
13. What is osmosis?
14. What are the function of the stomata?
15. What do you mean by buoyancy?
Section-C
16. A force of 5 N gives a mass m1, an acceleration of 10 ms-2 and a mass m2, an acceleration of 20 ms-2. What
acceleration would it give if both the masses were tied together?
17. Calculate the force of gravitation between the earth and the Sun, given that the mass of the earth = 6  1024
kg and of the sun = 2  1030 kg. The average distance between the two is 1.5  1011 m.
18. Name the technique to separate
(a) Butter from curd
(b) Salt from sea-water.
(c) Camphor from salt.
19. Identify the of tissue in the following: skin, bark of tree, bone, lining of kidney tubule, vascular bundle.
20. Draw a labelled diagram of Neuron. Write down its functions.
Section-D
21. (i) What is meant by crystallization? How is impure copper sulphate purified by the process?
(ii) Differentiate between simple distillation and fractional distillation.
22. (i) What is newton’s law of gravitation?
(ii) Mathematically express acceleration due to gravity in terms of mass of the earth and radius of the earth.
23. Differentiate between striated, unstriated and cardiac muscles on the basis of their structure and
site/location in the body.

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