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VII CBSE
Time: 45 min Chp1. Nutrition in plants Marks: 30
Question 1: Oral Question.(any 5)
1. What are nutrients?
2. You saw a yellow coloured cuscuta plant twining around the stem and branches of a tree. Identify host
and parasite out of cuscutta and tree?
3. What are lichens?
4. What are insectivorous plants?
6. What is chlorophyll?
7. In which form the saprotrophs take their food?

Question 2: True or false

1. The components of food are called nutrients.
2. Few plants eat insects
3. It is not true to true to say that insectivorous plants are partial heterotrophs.
4. Lichens are association of two green plants.
5. Carbondioxide is released during photosynthesis.
6. The product of photosynthesis is not a protein.

Question 3. Quiz
1. Name the gas released in the process of photosynthesis?
2. From where do plants obtain Nitrogen?
3. What are the food factories of the plants?
4. Why do desert plants have scale or spine like structure?

Question 5. Puzzle
1. The process by which plant make their food.
2. Pores found on the surface of the leaf.
3. Found in insectivorous plant.
4. Provide energy for life process.

Question 6. Name the following.

1. A plant that has both autrotrophic and heterotrophic mode of nutrition.
2. A parasitic plant with yellow, slender and tubular stem.

Question 7. Fill in the blanks.

1. The carbohydrate ultimately gets converted into ___________ and __________.
2. The bacteria Rhizobium live in the roots of ___________________________.
3. Amarbel is a ______________.
4. The ultimate source of energy for all living organism is _____________.
5. During photosynthesis plants take in _____________ and release _______________.
6. The food synthesized by the plants is stored as ______________.

Question 8. Match the following.

1. Cells a. autotroph
2. Stomata b. loss of water through leaves
3. Algae c. exchange of water and gases
4. Transpiration d. Bacteria
5. Nitrogen e. structural units of bodies
Question 9. Choose the correct alternative.
1. Which one is not autotrophs?
1.] Neem plant. 2.] Mango plant. 3.] Mushroom. 4.] Algae.
2. During photosynthesis:
1.] carbondioxide released 2.] Oxygen released. 3.] Nitrogen released 4.] None of the these.
3. Which part of the plant takes in carbondioxide from the air for photosynthesis?
1.] Roothair. 2.] Stomata. 3.] Leaf veins. 4.] Sepals.

Question 10. Answer the following.

1. How would you test the presence of starch in leaves?
2. Distinguish between a parasite and a saprotrophs.
3. Give a brief description of the process of synthesis of food in green plants.
4. Why do organism need to take food?

Question 11. Show with the help of a sketch that the plants are ultimate source of food.