short answers question chapter : life process

Q1. Write any two causes that may damage the kidney of a person.
Q2. You had eaten pulses during lunch time. Which nutrient do you get from pulses and
which part of the digestive tract begins the digestion of this nutrient?
Q3. Explain the process of exchange of O2 and CO2 in tissues.
Q4. How does HCl in the human stomach help in digestion of food?
Q5. Most of the CO2 produced in a tissue enters the red blood cells by diffusion. What
happens to this CO2?
Q6. Major amount of water is selectively reabsorbed by the tubular part of nephron in
humans. What are the factors on which the amount of water reabsorbed depends?
Q7. What are villi? What is their function?
Q8. Explain the mechanism of gaseous exchange during respiration.
Q9. A women is feeling breathlessness. What is done to help her to overcome breathing
problem?
Q10. (a) Write three main steps that take place in chloroplast during photosynthesis. (b)
How does stomata open and close? (c) Which raw material is made available to plants for
photosynthesis when stomata are open?
Q11. What do you call the secretion of the stomach? How does the wall of the stomach
protect itself from the action of highly acidic HCl?

Q12. How are the fats digested in our bodies? Where does this process take place?
Q13. Why ventricles have thicker walls than auricles?
Q14. How urine is formed in the excretory system?
Q15. If you consume butter in your lunch, how will it get digested in your body?
Q16. How autotrophs meet their energy requirements?
Q17. Suppose the walls of guard cells are uniformly thick. How will it affect the rate of
transpiration from the leaf?
Q18. Name the mode of nutrition in Amoeba.
Q19. How are lungs designed in human beings to maximize the area for exchange of
gases?
Q20. (i) Why are valves needed in the heart? (ii) Leakage of blood from vessels reduces
the efficiency of pumping system. How is the leakage prevented?
Q21. Leaves of a healthy potted plant were coated with vaseline. Will this plant remain
healthy for long? Give reasons.
Q22. Name the bean shaped organ present in your abdomen. Write its main function.
Q23. Name the membrane covering lungs in human body.
Q24. Explain the digestion in stomach.
Q25. A person is having problem in passage of urine. Which system of the body is not
working properly? Explain it.
Q26. Which intestinal juice completes the process of digestion in human beings?
Q27. What is cardiac cycle? Name its various events.
Q28. In addition to CO2 and chlorophyll what other things are required by plants to make
food during photosynthesis?
Q29. How blood flows during joint diastole? State whether the semi-lunar valves are open
or closed during this phase.
Q30. Explain the significance of peristaltic movement that occurs all along the gut during
digestion.