CHAPTERS
Life Processes
5.2 Nutrition
McQ
1. Opening and closing of stomata is due to
(a) high pressure of gases inside the cells
(b) movement of water in and out of the guard cells
(©) stimulus of light in the guard cells
(@) diffusion of CO, in and out of the guard cells.
(2023)
2. Assertion (A) : The inner walls of the small intestine have finger like projections called villi which
are rich in blood,
Reason (R) : These villi have a large surface area to help the small intestine in completing the
digestion of food,
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is dhe correct explanation of (A).
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(c) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(d) (A) is false but CR) is true.
(2023)
3. Water in the root enters due to
(a) the function of the root to absorb water
(b) difference in the concentration of ions between the root and the soil
(c) excess water preseat in the soil
(d) diffusion of water in the roots.
(2023)
4. In human alimentary canal, the specific enzyme/ juice secreted in locations ((@) @ Amylase
(ii) Pepsin
(iii) Bile
(b) (i) Amylase
(ii) Bile
(©) @ Lipase
(i) Amylase
(iii) Trypsin
(@ @ Teppsin
(ii) Bite
(ii) Pepsin
(iii) Amylase
(Term 1, 2021-22)
5. Inthe following flow chart showing autotrophic nutrition in green plants, A and B respectively are
0,
Sunlight | Chlorophyll
=
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(a) oxygen and energy
(b) starch and oxygen(©) energy and starch
(@) oxygen and water.
(Term 1, 2021-2:
. Read the following and answer the questions from 6(i) to 6(iv).
‘Take a healthy potted plant with elongated leaves. Select a leaf and insert about one half of this leaf
in a test tube containing KOH and make it air tight. Ploce the set-up in sun for two hours. Take out the
leaf from the test tube and dip it in boiting water for a few minutes. Put this leaf in a beaker with
alcohol and boil it in a water bath. Wash the leaf with water and then dip the leaf in iodine solution
for a few minutes. The portion of the leaf dipped in KOH solution will not show any change when