Section A 2*10=20

1. What is vermicomposting? How it is useful?

2. What is Roof Top Rain Water Harvesting? Where can you use this water?
3. Explain with reaction the concept of photosynthesis?
4. In which states of matter, the process of diffusion is fast and why?
5. How camels can tolerate the extreme heat of the desert?
6. Why fragrance of agarbatti spreads in the whole room?
7. Why solids do not diffuse with each other?
8. You are asked to dissolve sugar in water. You keep on adding sugar to water till
some of sugar is not dissolving by stirring with spoon. How can you dissolve the
left-out sugar?
9. Which gas helps in preparing soda water?
10. What is solubility? What is the effect of increased temperature on solubility of the
gas as well as solid in water?

Section B 4*5=20

11. Describe an activity to show that a solid can diffuse slowly in liquid?
12. What is mineral cycle? Show with diagram how the nature maintains balance with
oxygen and carbon di oxide.
13. .What do you mean by ‘Food Chain’? Give examples of two aquatic food chains
and one terrestrial food chain.
14. A, B, C and D are all living organisms. A, B and C need readymade food whereas D
can make its own food by a natural process E. The organism A can eat B as well as D.
The organism B eats only D or its products whereas organism C eats only organism B.
(A)What is organism A. Give one example of A.?
(B) Name the organism B. Give one example of B.
(C) What are organisms like C called? Give one example of C.
(D)What is the general name of organisms lie D? Give one
example of D.
(E)Name the process E.