Sample short answer types question on biology for CBSE students

1. What is the name of tissues which transport?

(a) food in a plant?

(b) water and minerals in a plant?

2. What substance/substances are transported in plants by:

(a)xylem vessels and tracheids?

(b) sieve tubes (or phloem)?

3. Which organ acts as a pump in the circulatory system?

4. Veins and arteries carry blood. Which of these carry blood:

(a)away from the heart?

(b) back to the heart?

5. Where does blood absorb oxygen?

6. What stops blood from flowing backwards through the heart?

7. Name (i) largest artery, and (ii) largest vein, in our body.

8. What gaseous waste products are excreted by plants?

9. Where is the dirty blood in our body filtered?

10. Name the procedure used in the working of artificial kidney.

11. From the following terms, choose one term which includes the other four: Plasma, Platelets, Blood, RBC, WBC

12. What are the components of the transport system in highly organised plants?

13. Out of xylem and phloem, which one carries materials?

(a)upwards as well as downwards?

(b) only upwards?

16. Name the conducting tissue of plants which is made of sieve tubes along with companion cells.

17. Name the conducting tissue in plants which is made of (a) living cells, and (b) dead cells.

18. State the term used for the transport of food from leaves to other parts of plant.

19. Which process in a plant is accomplished by utilising energy from ATP: transport of water and minerals or transport of food?

20. Name the two types of transport systems in the human beings.

21. Name a waste gas released by the plants

(a) only during the day time, and

(b) only during the night time.

22. Name one animal having single circulation of blood and another having double circulation.

23. State whether the following statements are true or false:

(a) Some organisms store wastes in body parts.

(b) The value of systolic pressure is always lower than that of diastolic pressure.

24. Name the two parts of a plant through which its gaseous waste products are released into the air.

25. What happens to the glucose which enters the nephron tubule along with the filtrate?

26. Name the two waste products of the human body which are produced in the body cells.

27. What is the role of glomerulus in the kidney?

28. What is the other name of ‘high blood pressure’?

29. Fill in the following blanks with suitable words:

(a) Gums and resins are the…….. products of plants.

(b) Bowman’s capsule and tubule taken together make a……..

(c) The organs which extract the nitrogenous wastes from the blood are……….

(d) The extracellular fluid which always flows from body tissues to the heart is called

(e) The………… blood cells, make antibodies whereas………… blood cells help in respiration.

Answers:

4. (a) Arteries (b) Veins 6. Valves 7. (i) Aorta (ii) Vena cava 11. Blood 13. (a) Phloem (b) Xylem 14. Blood and Lymph 15. Vena cava 16. Phloem 17. (a) Phloem (b) Xylem 18. Translocation 19. Transport of food 21. (a) Oxygen (b) Carbon dioxide 23. (a) True (b) False 24. Lenticels and Stomata 25. It is reabsorbed into the blood through blood capillaries surroundings the tubule 26. Carbon dioxide and Urea 28. Hypertension 29. (a) waste (b) nephron (c) kidneys (d) lymph (e) white; red