This document contains a 13 question science exam for class 7. It covers topics like respiration, the heart, speed, soil infiltration, electric circuits, mirrors, pendulums, and more. Students are asked to fill in blanks, answer short questions, correct statements, think and explain concepts, give reasons, differentiate terms, solve problems, and identify parts of diagrams related to science topics. Several questions involve labeling diagrams or explaining scientific processes. The exam tests both understanding of concepts and higher-order thinking skills through questions ranging from one to three marks.
This document contains a 13 question science exam for class 7. It covers topics like respiration, the heart, speed, soil infiltration, electric circuits, mirrors, pendulums, and more. Students are asked to fill in blanks, answer short questions, correct statements, think and explain concepts, give reasons, differentiate terms, solve problems, and identify parts of diagrams related to science topics. Several questions involve labeling diagrams or explaining scientific processes. The exam tests both understanding of concepts and higher-order thinking skills through questions ranging from one to three marks.
This document contains a 13 question science exam for class 7. It covers topics like respiration, the heart, speed, soil infiltration, electric circuits, mirrors, pendulums, and more. Students are asked to fill in blanks, answer short questions, correct statements, think and explain concepts, give reasons, differentiate terms, solve problems, and identify parts of diagrams related to science topics. Several questions involve labeling diagrams or explaining scientific processes. The exam tests both understanding of concepts and higher-order thinking skills through questions ranging from one to three marks.
This document contains a 13 question science exam for class 7. It covers topics like respiration, the heart, speed, soil infiltration, electric circuits, mirrors, pendulums, and more. Students are asked to fill in blanks, answer short questions, correct statements, think and explain concepts, give reasons, differentiate terms, solve problems, and identify parts of diagrams related to science topics. Several questions involve labeling diagrams or explaining scientific processes. The exam tests both understanding of concepts and higher-order thinking skills through questions ranging from one to three marks.
(a) In respiration, energy is released and stored in chemical molecules called _____________________. (b) The number of times a person breathes in a minute is called _______________. (c) In heart, the left side is completely separated from right side by means of a partition wall called _____________________. (d) The SI unit of speed is _________________. (e) __________________ is the process of seepage of water through different layers of soil. (f) ________________ is sudden flow of very large amount of current due to direct contact of live and neutral wire. (g) The distance between pole and focus of spherical mirror is called ______________________. (h) _______________ is a special type of clock used to record the sequence of an event. Q2. Answer the following in one word or one sentence:- (1×8=8) (a) Name the tiny opening on the bark where cells are loosely packed and have intercellular spaces allowing the exchange of gases. (b) Name the disease which is caused by heavy smoking of tobacco. In this disease the air sacs in the lungs are damaged and thus the surface area of lungs is reduced. (c) What is the factor on which the time period of a pendulum depends upon? (d) Name the double layered membranous sac in which heart is enclosed. (e) List the two factors on which the amount of heat produced in a wire depends. (f) Identify A and B.
(g) Write any two characteristics of flowers which are pollinated by wind. (h) What did Newton demonstrate with the help of Newton's disc? Q3. Complete the given analogy:- (½×4=2) (a) Fish : Gills : : Insects : __________________ . (b) Instrument used to : ______________ : : Instrument used : stethoscope measure blood to listen the pressure beat (c) Clocks based on oscillations : Quartz clock : : Clocks based on : _____________ of crystal when it is subjected vibrations of to small electric current. atoms for measuring time (d) Gradual and continuous : ___________ : : The continuous circulation : Water lowering of water table of water from earth to cycle atmosphere and from atmosphere back to earth Q4. Correct the following statements:- (½×4=2) (a) Animals like birds, reptiles excrete ammonia. (b) Percentage of carbondioxide in exhaled out air is 6.4%. (c) The slope of a distance-time graph indicates the distance covered by the object. (d) Every year 12th July is celebrated as the World Water Day. Q5. Think and tell:- (2×4=8) (a) Observe the figure and answer :-
(i) Why does the paper start smouldering after sometime?
(ii) What is the nature of image formed by this lens in this case? (b) Which flowers are more attractive – insect pollinated or wind pollinated. Why? (c) (i) Why is a fuse wire necessary in a circuit? (ii) Can we use the same fuse in a geyser and a television set? (d) Why arteries have thick elastic muscular wall and veins have thin and less elastic muscular wall? Q6. Give reason:- (2×3=6) (a) How does transpiration help in the transport of water and minerals in plants? (b) (i) LEDs and CFLs are preferred over electric bulbs. Why? (ii) For an electrical appliance, what is the importance of ISI mark? (c) (i) Boojho made light from a laser torch to fall on a prism. Will he be able to observe a band of seven colours. Give reason. (ii) Why do in automobiles the rear view mirrors have warning written as "object seen in the mirror may be closer than they appear"? Q7. Differentiate between the following:- (2×4=8) (a) Convex lens and concave lens. (b) Sexual reproduction and Asexual reproduction. (c) Arteries and Veins. (d) Causes of excessive flow of current in electric circuit. Q8. Answer the following question in short:- (2×3=6) (a) The odometer of a car reads 7321.0 km when the clock shows the time 8.10 am. What is the speed of car if at 8.50 am, the odometer reading has changed to 7336.0 km? (b) (i) Identify the picture.
(ii) Mention any two advantages of this technique.
(c) (i) What will happen if blood does not have enough platelets? (ii) WBCs are often called soldiers of the body. Why? Q9. Analytical questions:- (2×4=8) (a) The given picture shows a plant with girdled stem. Give reason for the following observations –
(i) The part of stem above girdle shows swelling.
(ii) The part of stem below girdle dries up. (b)
(i) Identify the type of effect of electric current in the above figure. (ii) What happens to the compass needle when the switch is turned on? (c)
(i) Mention the advantage of using the method shown in the figure. (ii) Identify X and Y. (d) (i) A person standing 6m away from a plane mirror moves 1 m towards the mirror. Can you tell the distance between the person and the image. (ii) If you are given two lens-convex and concave to read a dictionary. Which lens would you use and why? Q10. Answer the following in detail:- (3×2=6) (a) How can you distinguish between a plane mirror, a concave mirror and a convex mirror without touching them. (b) (i) Define fertilization. (ii) What happens to the ovary and ovule after the fertilization. (iii) Give one advantage of dispersal of seeds. Q11. Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) questions:- (3×3=9) (a) (i) Identify the machine shown in the figure.
(ii) Define the process.
(iii) What type of patients are put on such machines. (b) (i) Ram made an electromagnet by winding 60 turns of wire over an iron nail. Shyam made an electromagnet by winding 100 turns over a similar iron nail. Which electromagnet will attract more pins? Give reason. (ii) List the factors on which strength of an electromagnet depends. (iii) Give two uses of electromagnets. (c) (i) What would happen if all the seeds of a plant were to fall at the same place below the plant and grow there? (ii) In the given figure of the flower, name the parts whose functions are given below:
(1) The part which contains pollen grains.
(2) The part where female gamete is formed. (3) The female reproductive part where pollen grains germinate. (4) The colourful part of flower which attracts insects. Q12. Picture based questions:- (a) (i) What does figure A & B depict?
(A) (B) (ii) Explain, in terms of ribs and diaphragm, what happen when air is inhaled and exhaled. (1+1) (b) Identify A, B, C & D in the given figure. (2)
(c) Identify A in the given figure. Also name the technique. (1)
(d) What can we conclude from the activity shown in the figure. (1)
Q13. Draw a well labelled diagram of an electric bell. (3)
