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Life Processes - Grade 10th - Questions

This document contains 40 multiple choice and short answer questions about various life processes in the human body and in plants. The questions cover topics like nutrition, digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, and transport systems. Some of the questions ask about specific structures and their functions, like the stomach, small intestine, lungs, heart, kidneys and nephrons. Other questions ask about broader processes like photosynthesis, aerobic and anaerobic respiration, and the roles of enzymes and other substances involved in digestion.

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Life Processes - Grade 10th - Questions

This document contains 40 multiple choice and short answer questions about various life processes in the human body and in plants. The questions cover topics like nutrition, digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, and transport systems. Some of the questions ask about specific structures and their functions, like the stomach, small intestine, lungs, heart, kidneys and nephrons. Other questions ask about broader processes like photosynthesis, aerobic and anaerobic respiration, and the roles of enzymes and other substances involved in digestion.

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Life Processes

Questions - Grade 10th


Answer the following questions to find out how much you know

1. What is a life process? Explain the process of nutrition in Amoeba.

2. What is saliva? State its role in the digestion of food.

3. What is the role of HCL in protein digestion?

4. State 2 functions of performed by bile juice.

5. What are Enzymes? Name any one enzyme of our digestive system and write
its functions.

6. Why is there a difference in the rate of breathing between aquatic organisms


and terrestrial organisms? Explain.

7. Explain the process of breakdown of glucose in a cell.


a) in the presence of oxygen
b) in the absence of oxygen

8. a) Why do the walls of a trachea not collapse when there is less air in it?
b) How are lungs designed in human beings to maximize the area for
exchange of gases?

9. What are stomata? What is their role in respiration?

10. Name the respiratory pigment and write its role in human beings.

11. What are the differences between Xylem and Phloem in plants?

12. a) What is double circulation?


b) Write 3 types of blood vessels. Give one important feature of each.
c) How is Lymph an important fluid involved in transportation? If lymphatic
vessles get blocked, how would it affect the human body?
13. Define excretion. Name the basic filtration unit present in the kidney.

14. How is urine produced?

15. Describe in brief the functions of kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder and
urethra.

16. Describe the structure and functioning of Nephron.

17. Why patients whose gall bladder are removed are recommended to eat less
oily food?

18. How would it affect the digestion of proteins and carbohydrates in the
Duodenum of a human being if there is a blockage in the pancreatic duct?

19. Write any 2 features of the large intestines in a human body.

20. List the role of each of the following


a) Hydrochloric Acid
b) Trypsin
c) Salivary Amylase
d) Muscular walls of stomach
e) Villi
f) Lipase
g) Pepsin

21. Explain the process of nutrition in human beings by giving a detailed


description on what happens inside the alimentary canal.

22. Write down the names of the salivary glands found in humans.

23. What are the functions of the gastric glands in the stomach?

24. What do you mean by Peristaltic movement?

25. What do you mean by nutrition? What are the different ways in which living
organisms get their food?

26. What do you mean by diffusion?

27. Explain the process of photosynthesis in plants.


28. Write the difference between “Aerobic” and “Anaerobic” respiration.

29. Explain the process of respiration in humans.

30. Why does the heart have different chambers. Explain the role of each one.

31. Why do the ventricles have thicker muscular walls and what are the functions
of the valves?

32. How do plants transport water and food within them?

33. Read these topics in your text book:


a) Artificial kidney
b) Organ donation
c) Blood pressure
d) ATP
e) Dental caries (Tooth decay)

34. What is the controversy around viruses?

35. What are the roles of Platelets?

36. What are the methods used by plants to get rid of excretory products?

37. What do you mean by “Emulsification”?

38. What is the role of the sphincter muscle?

39. The fermentation of glucose by Yeast normally yields


Alcohol, CO2 and 36 ATP
CO2, H20 and 36 ATP
Alcohol, CO2 AND 2 ATP
Lactic acid, CO2 and 2 ATP

40. Compare the alveoli and nephron functioning, including structure.

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