CLASS IX.

1 x 4 marks
A. Paragraph based questions.

The yield of capture fishing is not high in inland bodies. Thus most fishes production from these resources is done through
aquaculture. Sometimes fish culture is done in combination with rice crops. Fish production can be increased by cultivating
different types of fishes in a single water body. Here both local and imported fish species are used. The fish yield from pond
is high as there is no competition for food. Many fishes breed only during monsoon. Thus one of the major problem of fish
farming is the lack of availability of good quality seed. Common fishes are Rohu, Catla, Mrigal and common carps.

1. Name two popular Indian fishes.

2. What is composite fish culture?
3. Give one advantage of composite fish culture.
4. Give one disadvantage of composite fish culture.
B. Voluntary muscles are found in- a) Iris of eye. b) Alimentary canal. c) Bronchi. d) Limbs
C. Rainfall pattern depends upon- a) the underground water table. b) the number of water bodies in an area. c) the density
pattern of human population in an area. d) the prevailing season in an area
D. Assertion/ Reason
Assertion- Chordates are most evolved of all animals.
Reason- They are bilaterally symmetrical.
E. Name the protozoan that causes - sleeping sickness and kala-azar.
F. Give a difference between acute and chronic disease.

3 marks questions-

A. Write two differences between plasma membrane and cell wall. ii) Name any two organelles having their own
genetic material.
B. What is meristmatic tissue? Show their location in a diagram of a plant body? Why these tissues lack vacuoles?
C. Draw diagram of Hydra and label any four parts. OR. What do you understand by nomenclature? Who
introduced this system? b) why do we place snake and turtle in the same class? Give any two reason.
D. The immune system of Rohit is damaged by the attack of a pathogen on his body. i) Name the disease he is
suffering from. ii) Name the pathogen that has attacked his body. iii) Mention any two modes of transmission of
this disease.

5 marks

A. Draw a neat and labelled diagram to illustrate oxygen cycle. ii) Which part of solar radiation is absorbed by ozone
layer?what would be the effects of widening of ozone hole?
B. Write one function each of -i) chromosomes. ii) lysosomes. iii) ribosomes. iv)
apparatus. v) mitochondria.
OR
i) write two differences between RER and SER.
ii) Write any one function of vacuole in plants.
iii) What will happen to a plant cell if it is kept in a hypotonic solution? Also, define the
phenomenon.
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