ORCHIDS THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Grade 10 Life Processes Worksheet
Answer the following: (2 marks)
1. a) Name two different ways in which glucose is oxidised to provide energy in various organisms.
b) Write any two differences between the two ways of oxidation of glucose in organisms.
2. What is the function of trachea? Why do the walls not collapse even there is less air in it?
3. Name any two digestive enzymes secreted in the human digestive system and write their function.
4. Stomata of desert plants remain closed during the daytime. How do they take up carbon di oxide and
perform photosynthesis?
5.What id excretion? How do unicellular organisms remove their wastes?
6. What is the internal energy reserve in plants? Do the animals have the same energy reserve? Justify your
answer.
7. Diffusion is insufficient to meet the oxygen requirement of multicellular organisms like human. State
reason.
8. Complete the following pathway showing the breakdown of glucose.
9. a) Name the process by which autotrophs prepare their own food.
b) List two events which occur during this process.
10. a) In the process of respiration, state the function of alveoli.
b) Name the enzyme present in Saliva.
11. Define translocation with reference to plants.
Answer the following: (3 marks)
1. What are Stomata? Draw labelled diagram of stomata. Write any two functions of stomata.
2. Differentiate between breathing and respiration.
3. a) What do you mean by double circulation of blood?
b) Why it is necessary?
4. List three kinds of blood vessels of human circulatory system and write their functions in a tabular form.
5. Mention the role of following in digestion:
a) Villi b) Pepsin c) Bile juice
6.Compare alveoli in the lungs and nephrons in the kidneys with respect to their structure and functioning.
7. Define Photosynthesis. Write the balanced chemical equation for photosynthesis.
8. Differentiate between autotrophs and heterotrophs.
9. Explain how the translocation of materials in phloem tissue in plants is achieved by utilising energy.
10. What do the following transport?
(i) Xylem
(ii) Phloem
(iii) Pulmonary vein
(iv) Vena cava
(v) Pulmonary artery
(vi) Aorta
11. Explain giving any three reasons the significance of transpiration in plants.
12. Give reasons:
(a) Ventricles have thicker muscular walls than atria.
(b) Transport system in plants is slow.
(c) Veins have valves whereas arteries do not.
13. Draw a neat diagram of excretory system of human beings and label on it:
(i) Left kidney
(ii) Urinary bladder.
(iii) Ureter
14. Explain with the help of neat and well labelled diagrams the different steps involved in nutrition in
Amoeba.
15. Draw a flow chart to show the breakdown of glucose by various pathways.
16. State reasons for the following:
(i) Herbivores need a longer small intestine while carnivores have shorter small intestine.
(ii) The lungs are designed in human beings to maximise the area for exchange of gases.
17. Give reasons for the following:
(i) Lungs always contain residual volume.
(ii) Nostrils are lined with mucus.
18. (a) Name four types of metabolic wastes produced by humans.
(b) Name any two human excretory organs other than kidney.
Answer the following: (5 marks)
1. Describe the structure and function of nephron with the help of diagram.
2. (a) Why is nutrition necessary for the human body?
(b) What causes movement of food inside the alimentary canal?
(c) Why is small intestine in herbivores longer than in carnivores?
(d) What will happen if mucus is not secreted by the gastric glands?
3. Draw a diagram of human respiratory system and label – pharynx, trachea, lungs, diaphragm and alveolar
sac on it.
4. (a) “Blood circulation in fishes is different from the blood circulation in human beings”. Justify the
statement.
(b) Describe “blood circulation” in human beings.
5. (a) Mention any two components of blood.
(b) Trace the movement of oxygenated blood in the body.
(c) Write the function of valves present in between atria and ventricles.
(d) Write one structural difference between the composition of artery and veins.
6. Draw a neat labelled diagram of Human digestive system.
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