SCIENCE – TEST – LIFE PROCESSES
1. Define the following terms:
1) nutrition 2) peristalsis 3) osmoregulation 4) holozoic nutrition
2. [Link] between:
1) Breathing and respiration 2) parasite and saprophyte 3) aerobic and anaerobic
respiration 4) inhalation and exhalation 5) ingestion and egestion
3. Draw a well labelled diagram of human respiratory system.
4. What is Holozoic Nutrition? Explain describing the steps involved.
5. Name the red pigment carrying oxygen in blood.
6. Meat is easier to digest as compared to grass. Why?
7. What do you mean by ‘lymph’. Mention its function.
8. How are lungs designed in human beings to maximize the area of exchange of gases
9. Describe the role of following in digestion.
10. a) Bile b) Salivary amylase c) HCl d) mucous e) Bicarbonate f) Trypsin
11. In which type respiration , complete breakdown of glucose takes place ?
12. Where does conversion of glucose into pyruvate takes place ?
13. What is residual volume . How is it helpful ?
14. What is glycolysis?
15. Name the largest artery of body.
16. Why the walls of trachea are supported by cartilaginous rings?
17. What is the role of diaphragm during inhalation and exhalation?
18. What is the advantage of four chambered of heart?
19. What are the functions of human respiratory system ?.
20. What is the difference between arteries & veins?
21. What is villi? What are its functions?
22. What type of respiration takes place in human muscles during vigorous exercise and
why?
23. Discuss the major steps involved in process of nutrition in human beings.
24. Where does digestion of starch begin in human body?
25. Name the substrates for the following enzymes
trypsin b) amylase c) pepsin d) lipase
26. What are the functions of lymph in our body?
27. How is haemoglobin associated with respiration explained?
28. What is ‘clotting of blood’? Write a flow chart showing major events taking place in
clotting of blood?
29. In which part of the digestive canal food is absorbed?
30. Which organelle of the cell is known as ‘power house’?
31. Why oxygenated and deoxygenated blood is separated in mammals
32. ‘Respiration is a vital function of the body’. Justify.
33. Mention the role of the valves in maintaining blood flow in the heart.
34. What is the structural difference between the auricles and ventricles?
35. How are lungs designed in human beings to maximize the area for exchange of gases
36. What are the functions of liver and pancreas in the digestive system?
37. Which part of the body secretes bile? Where is bile stored?
38. Draw a well labeled diagram of human digestive system
39. With the help of labeled diagram, Discuss the mechanism of respiration in human
beings.
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41. MCQ:
42. Trachea do not collapse when there is not much air because they are –
43. thick and muscular b) having cartilaginous rings c) Have valves d) supported by larynx.
44. Which one of the following blood vessels contains only deoxygenated blood?
45. pulmonary vein b) pulmonary artery c) capillaries d) Aorta
46. The autotrophic mode of nutrition requires –
47. Chlorophyll b) Sunlight c) Carbon – dioxide & water d) all of the above
48. Name the part of alimentary canal receiving bile from the liver.
49. Oesophagus b) Stomach c) Small intestine d) Large intestine
50. Which of these is not a part of the small intestine? a) Duodenum b) Jejunum c) Ileum d)
Rectum [1] 3. During contraction of heart, what prevents backflow of blood? a) Thin
walls of atria b) Thick muscular walls of ventricles c) Valves in heart d) All of the above
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