7th Standard -

1.Why do organisms need to take food?

2. How would you test the presence of starch in leaves?
3. What are villi? What is their location and function?
4. Where is the bile produced? Which component of the food does it help to digest?
5. Name the type of carbohydrate that can be digested by ruminants but not by humans. Give
the reason also.
6. Why do we get instant energy from glucose?
7. Write one similarity and one difference between the nutrition in amoeba and human
beings.
8. When baking soda is mixed with lemon juice, bubbles are formed with the evolution of a
gas. What type of change is it? Explain.
9. How would you show that setting of a curd is a chemical change?
10. Explain how soil is formed.
11. How is clayey soil useful for crops?
12. Explain how soil pollution and soil erosion could be prevented.
13. Why does an athlete breathe faster and deeper than usual after finishing the race?
14. List the similarities and differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
15. Why do we often sneeze when we inhale a lot of dust-laden air?
16. Why is transport of materials necessary in a plant or an animal? Explain.
17. What will happen if there are no platelets in the blood?
18. What are stomata? Give two junctions of stomata.
19. What are the components of blood?
20. Does transpiration serve any useful function in plants? Explain
21. Why is blood needed by all the parts of a body?
22. What makes the blood look red?
23. Describe the function of the heart.
24. Why is it necessary to excrete waste products?
25. State the main difference between asexual and sexual reproduction.
26. Explain what you understand by sexual reproduction.
27. Explain the difference between self-pollination and cross-pollination
28. How does the process of fertilization take place in flowers?
29. Describe the various ways by which seeds are dispersed.
30. Explain how groundwater is recharged.
31. Explain three factors responsible for the depletion of water table.
32. Explain how animals dwelling in the forest help it grow and regenerate.
33. Explain how forests prevent floods.
34. What are decomposers? Name any two of them. What do they do in the forest?
35. Explain the role of forest in maintaining the balance between oxygen and carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere.
36. Explain why there is no waste in a forest.
37. List five products we get from forests.
38. Why should we worry about the conditions and issues related to forests far from us?
39. Explain why there is a need of variety of animals and plants in a forest.
40. What is sewage? Explain why it is harmful to discharge untreated sewage into rivers or
seas.
41. Why should oils and fats be not released in the drain? Explain.
42. Describe the steps involved in getting clarified water from wastewater.
43. What is sludge? Explain how it is treated.
44. Untreated human excreta is a health hazard. Explain.
45. Name two chemicals used to disinfect water.
46. Explain the Junction of bar screens in a wastewater treatment plant.
47. Explain the relationship between sanitation and disease.
48.Why do mountaneers carry oxygen with them?
49. Explain the importance of seed dispersal.
50.Explain the difference between budding in Potato and Budding in Yeast.