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CLASS-X
BIOLOGY
Practice Paper

One Mark Questions:-

1. What process in plants is known as transpiration ?
2. What are phytohormones ?
3. What is breathing ?
4. List two vital functions of the human kidney.
5. Define fermentation.
Two Marks Questions:-
1. Write one function each of:
(a) Blood vessel (b) Blood platelets
2. (a) Name the type of blood vessels, which carry blood from organs to the heart.
(b) Which instrument is used to measure blood pressure?
3. Give two relevant points of difference between photoautotrophic and chemoautotrophic
nutriention.
4. Write two differences between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
5. What are the structural changes occur in the body during inhalation and exhalation of air ?
6. Write a short note on lymph.
7. How food is translocated in the plant body ?
8. Write how plants respire.
9. Draw a labelled diagram showing how stomatal pore opening and closing can be regulated by
guard cells.
10. How do xerophytic plants photosynthesize ?
Three Marks Questions:-
1. (a) Give two differences between light and dark reaction.
(b) What are the raw materials required for photsynthesis ? (2+1=3)

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2. Explain the process of digestion of proteins in the alimentary canal.
3. How food is broken down to form different end products in presence, absence and lack of
oxygen ? Show it with the help of a flowchart.
4. Give the process of excretion in plants.
5. Write three differences between arteries and veins.
6. Write about the forces which are responsible for the efficient transportation of water and
minerals throughout the plant body.
7. Draw a neat and labelled diagram of nephron (structural and functional unit of human
kidney).
8. (a) Define nutrition. (1+2=3)
(b) Explain about different types of heterotrophic nutrition.
9. Explain the process of nutrition in Amoeba diagrammatically.
10. Draw a labelled diagram of Human Respiratory System.
Five marks Questions:-
1. (a) Give two differences between photosynthesis and respiration. (2+1+1+1=5)
(b) Explain the action of saliva on food.
(c) Write the name of the largest gland of Human Digestive System.
(d) Define peristalsis.
2. Describe the process of double circulation in human body.
3. (a) How unicellular organisms like Amoeba respire ? (1+1+1+2=5)
(b) What is epiglottis ?
(c) Why incomplete rings of cartilage are present in the walls of human trachea ?
(d) How exchange of gases occurs with the help of alveoli ?
4. (a) Give two relevant differences between erythrocytes and leucocytes. (2+1+1+1=5)
(b) Write the function of thrombocytes.
(c) Define systole and diastole.
(d) What is heart beat and double circulation?
5. (a) Define glomerular filtration rate. (1+2+2=5)
(b) How urine formation takes place in human nephron ?
(c) What is artificial kidney ?