UDGAM SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN

SUBJECT- SCIENCE
Std: VII
Riddles ( Chapters 1 and 2 )
Guess the answers for the following riddles and write in the space provided
below.
1. I am a bacterium and I provide Nitrogen to the leguminous plants.

2. I take in Carbon di oxide from the air for photosynthesis.

3. I am a plant like organism as I have chloroplast and I do photosynthesis but I

do not have roots, stems and leaves like other plants.

4. I am a gas released during the process of photosynthesis.

5. I grow in the soil where there is no nitrogen so I trap insects to get Nitrogen.

6. We are very good friends. We help and depend on each other .Our
friendship is called?

7. I am stored as plant food.

8. I am an energy that gets converted to chemical energy during

photosynthesis.

9. I am known as Amarbel growing as a parasite around other plants. What am

I called in English?

10.I am the organism dependent on a host.

11. I am a part of the stomach in grass eating animals where the undigested
food is stored.

12.I am a process of breaking down the complex components of food into

simpler substances.

13.I am a sea animal / fish who feeds on animals covered by hard shells of
calcium carbonate.

14.I am the partially digested food heading towards duodenum so that Liver
and Pancreas secrete their juices on me to digest me completely.

15.I am the longest organ and almost 300 inches long in the human body.

17.I am a combination of alga ( chlorophyll rich) and a fungus ,what am I

called?

18.I am the mode of nutrition in which organisms take in nutrients from dead
and decaying matters. What I am called?

19.I look like a jug and I am a modified part of leaf ,I trap insects ,who am I?

20.I am a partial heterotroph as I produce my own food with simple materials

like an heterotroph but I also feed upon organisms.

21. I am the first part / compartment of the digestive tract.

22.I am a gas and plants need me, They can not use me in the gaseous form
but in the liquid form.
23. I grow on food items ,clothes ,leather etc. in hot and humid weather
especially in rainy season.

24.I live in the roots of gram,peas, moong ,beans and other legumes and
convert the nitrogen into usable form.

25 .We grow during infancy and fall off at the age of 6 to 8 years.

26.I am the process of taking food in the body.

27. I break down the starch into sugars.

28. I am a fleshy muscular organ in the buccal cavity that can move in all
directions.

29. I am like a pipe running adjacent to the food pipe and I carry the air from
the nostrils to the lungs.

30. I am a flap like valve in the common passage between the food pipe and
the wind pipe .

31. I am a thick-walled J shaped bag and the widest part of the alimentary
canal.

32.I protect the inner lining of the stomach.

33. I am a reddish brown and the largest gland situated in the upper part of
the abdomen on the right side.
34.I am the sac that stores the bile juice secreted by the liver .

35.I am a large gland ,cream in colour located just below the stomach.

36. I am a juice that plays an important role in the digestion of fats.

37. The digestive juices in the stomach break me down into simpler
substances.

38.I kill the bacteria that enter into the stomach with the food and also help
the digestive juices to act.

39.I complete the digestion of all components of the food in the lower part of
the small intestine.

40.I get broken down into simple sugars.

41. I get broken down into fatty acids and glycerol.

42. I get converted into amino acids.

43. I am the process through which the digested food passes into the blood
vessels in the intestinal wall.

44.We are finger like outgrowths in the inner walls of the small intestine,
increasing the surface area of absorption of the digested food.
45.I am the process in which the absorbed substances are transported via the
blood vessels to different organs to build complex substances required by the
body.

46.I help to break down glucose into carbon dioxide and water in the cells.

47.I am the part of the digestive tract where the undigested and unabsorbed
food enters.

48.I am about 1.5 meter long and I absorb water and salts from the undigested
food material.

49. I am the last process of the digestive system in which the semi -solid faeces
stored in the rectum are removed through the anus.

50. I am a condition when a person frequently experiences the need to pass

watery stool .

51. I am a solution which is basically boiled and cooled saline water( with salt
and sugar) which can be given to patients suffering through dehydration.

52. I am a part of the stomach where the undigested food/ cud is stored in the
grass eating animals.

53. I am the process in which the cud / undigested food returns in small lumps
to the animal’s mouth and is chewed.

54. I am a type of carbohydrate present in grass.

55. I am a large sac- like structure in animals like horses and rabbit between
the oesophagus and the small intestine and I have certain special bacteria to
digest the cellulose of the food.

56.I am a microscopic single celled organism found in pond water.

57.We are finger like projections for movement and capture of food in
Amoeba.

58. I trap the food engulfed by the pseudopdia of Amoeba.