If wheat is sown in the kharif season, w | Class 8 Science Chapter Crop Production and Management, Crop Production and Management NCERT Solutions

Describe with the help of a diagram an instrument which can be used to detect a charged body.

Sketch larynx and explain its function in your own words.

Arrange the following boxes in proper order to make a flow chart of sugarcane crop production.

Make a labelled diagram of a candle flame.

What is metamorphosis? Give examples.

The following Table shows the total power shortage in India from 1991– 1997. Show the data in the form of a graph. Plot shortage percentage for the years on the Y-axis and the year on the X-axis.

Make sketches of animal and plant cells. State three differences between them.

Describe the construction of a kaleidoscope.

What is a constellation? Name any two constellations.

Complete the crossword with the help of clues given below:
Across
1. This is necessary for photosynthesis.
3. Term for component present in the cytoplasm.
6. The living substance in the cell.
8. Units of inheritance present on the chromosomes.

Down
1. Green plastids.
2. Formed by collection of tissues.
4. It separates the contents of the cell from the surrounding medium.
5. Empty structure in the cytoplasm.
7. A group of cells.

Boojho stands at A just on the side of a plane mirror as shown in Fig. 16.20. Can he see himself in the mirror? Also can he see the image of objects situated at P, Q and R?

What happens when
(a) Dilute sulphuric acid is poured on a copper plate?
(b) Iron nails are placed in copper sulphate solution?
      Write word equations of the reactions involved.

Lightning and thunder take place in the sky at the same time and at the same distance from us. Lightning is seen earlier and thunder is heard later. Can you explain?

Describe the construction of a kaleidoscope.

Fill in the blanks in the following statements:
(a) To draw water from a well we have to ——— at the rope.
(b) A charged body ———— an uncharged body towards it.
(c) To move a loaded trolley we have to ———— it.
(d) The north pole of a magnet ———— the north pole of another magnet.

Give reasons:
(a) Water is not used to control fires involving electrical equipment.
(b) LPG is a better domestic fuel than wood.
(c) Paper by itself catches fire easily whereas a piece of paper wrapped around an aluminium pipe does not.

Explain how deforestation leads to reduced rainfall.

Write notes on—
(a) Adam’s apple.
(b) Secondary sexual characters.
(c) Sex determination in the unborn baby.

Image formed by a plane mirror is
(a) virtual, behind the mirror and enlarged
(b) virtual, behind the mirror and of the same size as the object
(c) real at the surface of the mirror and enlarged
(d) real, behind the mirror and of the same size as the object.

Compare LPG and wood as fuels.