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Class 10 Science MCQs Chapter 6 Life Process Answer: a

6. In amoeba, food is digested in the:

1. Which of the following are energy foods? (a) food vacuole
(a) Carbohydrates and fats (b) mitochondria
(b) Proteins and mineral salts (c) pseudopodia
(c) Vitamins and minerals (d) chloroplast
(d) Water and roughage
Answer
Answer Answer: a
Answer: a
7. Which of the following events in the mouth
2. In which mode of nutrition an organism de- cavity will be affected if salivary amylase is
rives its food from the body of another living lacking in the saliva?
organism without killing it? (a) Starch breaking down into sugars.
(a) Saprotrophic nutrition (b) Proteins breaking down into amino acids.
(b) Parasitic nutrition (c) Absorption of vitamins.
(c) Holozoic nutrition (d) Fats breaking down into fatty acids and
(d) Autotrophic nutrition glycerol.

Answer
Answer: b Answer
Answer: a
3. The mode of nutrition found in fungi is:
(a) Parasitic nutrition 8. Which region of the alimentary canal
(b) Holozoic nutrition absorbs the digested food?
(c) Autotrophic nutrition (a) Stomach
(d) Saprotrophic nutrition (b) Small intestine
(c) Large intestine
Answer (d) Liver
Answer: d
Answer
4. Roots of the plants absorb water from the Answer: b
soil through the process of:
(a) diffusion 9. The contraction and expansion movement
(b) transpiration of the walls of the food pipe is called:
(c) osmosis (a) translocation
(d) None of these (b) transpiration
(c) peristaltic movement
Answer (d) digestion
Answer: c
Answer
5. The site of photosynthesis in the cells of a Answer: c
leaf is
(a) chloroplast 10. When a few drops of iodine solution are
(b) mitochondria added to rice water, the solution turns blue-
(c) cytoplasm black in colour. This indicates that rice water
(d) protoplasm contains:
(a) fats
(b) complex proteins
Answer (c) starch
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(d) simple proteins (c) Carbon dioxide + Water + Energy

(d) Pyruvate
Answer
Answer: c
Answer
11. The exit of unabsorbed food material is Answer: b
regu-lated by
(a) liver 16. Name the pores in a leaf through which
(b) anus respi-ratory exchange of gases takes place.
(c) small intestine (a) Lenticels
(d) anal sphincter (b) Vacuoles
(c) Xylem
(d) Stomata
Answer
Answer: d Answer
Answer: d
12. What are the products obtained by
anaerobic respiration in plants? 17. The respiratory pigment in human beings
(a) Lactic acid + Energy is:
(b) Carbon dioxide + Water + Energy (a) carotene
(c) Ethanol + Carbon dioxide + Energy (b) chlorophyll
(d) Pyruvate (c) haemoglobin
(d) mitochondria
Answer
Answer: c Answer
Answer: c
13. The breakdown of pyruvate to give carbon
di-oxide, water and energy takes place in 18. Which plant tissue transports water and
(a) cytoplasm min-erals from the roots to the leaf?
(b) mitochondria (a) Xylem
(c) chloroplast (b) Phloem
(d) nucleus (c) Parenchyma
(d) Collenchyma
Answer
Answer: b Answer
Answer: a
14. Glycolysis process occurs in which part of
the cell? 19. The movement of food in phloem is called:
(a) Cytoplasm (a) transpiration
(b) Nucleus (b) translocation
(c) Mitochondria (c) respiration
(d) Chloroplast (d) evaporation

Answer Answer
Answer: a Answer: b

15. Name the substances whose build up in 20. A blood vessel which pumps the blood
the muscles during vigorous physical exercise from the heart to the entire body:
may cause cramps? (a) artery
(a) Ethanol + Carbon dioxide + Energy (b) capillary
(b) Lactic acid + Energy (c) Vein
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(d) Haemoglobin (a) Heart

(b) Lungs
Answer (c) Ureter
Answer: a (d) Kidneys

21. Name a circulatory fluid in the human Answer

body other than blood. Answer: d
(a) Platelets
(b) RBC 26. The procedure used for cleaning the blood
(c) Lymph of a person by separating urea from it is
(d) Plasma called:
(a) osmosis
Answer (b) filtration
Answer: c (c) dialysis
(d) double circulation
22. Single circulation, i.e., blood flows through
the heart only once during one cycle of Answer
passage through the body, is exhibited by Answer: c
which of the following:
(a) hyla, rana, draco 27. Which is the correct sequence of body
(b) whale, dolphin, turtle parts in the human alimentary canal?
(c) labeo, chameleon, salamander (a) Mouth → stomach → small intestine →
(d) hippocampus, exocoetus, anabas large intestine → oesophagus
(b) Mouth → oesophagus → stomach → small
Answer intestine → large intestine
Answer: d (c) Mouth → stomach → oesophagus →
smallintestine → large intestine
23. Name the tube which connects the (d) Mouth → oesophagus → stomach → large
kidneys to the urinary bladder. intestine → small intestine
(a) Urethra
(b) Nephron Answer
(c) Tubule Answer: b
(d) Ureter
28. Identify the correct path of urine in the
Answer human body.
Answer: d (a) Kidney → urinary bladder → urethra →
ureter
24. Which part of nephron allows the (b) Urinary bladder → ureter → kidney →
selective reabsorption of useful substances urethra
like glucose, amino acids, salts and water into (c) Kidney → ureter → urethra → urinary
the blood capillaries? bladder
(a) Tubule (d) Kidney → ureter → urinary bladder →
(b) Glomerulus urethra
(c) Bowman’s capsule
(d) Ureter Answer
Answer: d
Answer
Answer: a 29. Autotrophic organisms include
(a) bacteria and virus
25. Where is the dirty blood in our body (b) bacteria and fungi
filtered? (c) green plants and some bacteria
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(d) green plants and all bacteria (c) mouth

(d) oesophagus
Answer
Answer: c Answer
Answer: d
30. A gland not associated with the alimentary
canal is 35. The fermentation of glucose by yeast
(a) liver normally yields
(b) salivary glands (a) alcohol, CO2 and 36 ATP
(c) pancreas (b) CO2, H20 and 36 ATP
(d) adrenal (c) alcohol, CO2 and 2ATP
(d) lactic acid, CO7 and 2 ATP
Answer
Answer: d Answer
Answer: d
31. Which of the following are chiefly digested
in the stomach? 36. A large quantity of one of the following is
(a) Carbohydrates removed from our body by lungs:
(b) Proteins (a) CO2 and H20
(c) Lipids (b) CO2 only
(d) Fats (c) FLO only
(d) ammonia
Answer
Answer: b Answer
Answer: a
32. From the given picture of the digestive
system, identify the part labelled as gastric 37. In respiration, air passes through
gland. (a) Pharynx → nasal cavity → larynx →
trachea bronchi → bronchioles
(b) Nasal cavity → pharynx → larynx →
(a) A trachea → bronchi → bronchioles
(b) B (c) Larynx → nasal cavity’ → pharynx →
(c) C trachea
(d) D (d) Larynx → pharynx trachea → lungs

Answer Answer
Answer: b Answer: b

33. Large intestine in man mainly carries out 38. A biochemical compound that readily
(a) absorption combines with oxygen and distributes it
(b) assimilation throughout the human body is
(c) digestion of fats (a) water
(d) digestion of carbohydrates (b) urea
(c) haemoglobin
Answer (d) acetylcholine
Answer: a
Answer
34. The part of the digestive system where no Answer: c
digestion takes place is
(a) ileum
(b) stomach
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39. The process in which loss of water takes

place in the form of water vapour through Answer
stomata is called Answer: c
(a) transportation
(b) transpiration 44. Which part of alimentary canal receives
(c) guttation bile from the liver? [NCERT Exemplar
(d) translocation Problems]
(a) Stomach
Answer (b) Small intestine
Answer: b (c) Large intestine
(d) Oesophagus
40. In a closed circulatory system, blood is
completely enclosed within Answer
(a) vessels Answer: b
(b) heart
(c) skeleton 45. When air is blown from mouth into a test-
(d) sinuses tube containing lime water, the lime water
turns milky due to the presence of [NCERT
Answer Exemplar Problems]
Answer: b (a) oxygen
(b) carbon dioxide
41. Normal blood pressure (systolic/diastolic) (c) nitrogen
is (d) water vapour
(a) 120/80 mm of Hg
(b) 160/80 mm of Hg Answer
(c) 120/60 mm of Hg Answer: b
(d) 180/80 mm of Hg
46. The filtration units of kidneys are called
Answer [NCERT Exemplar Problems]
Answer: a (a) ureter
(b) urethra
42. Blood pressure is measured by an (c) neurons
instrument called (d) nephrons
(a) barometer
(b) sphygmomanometer Answer
(c) photometer Answer: d
(d) manometer
47. Oxygen liberated during photosynthesis
Answer comes from [NCERT Exemplar Problems]
Answer: b (a) water
(b) chlorophyll
43. Which of the following statements is not (c) carbon dioxide
correct? (d) glucose
(a) Deoxygenated blood is poured into right
atrium of heart. Answer
(b) The excretory units of flatworms are flame Answer: a
cells.
(c) Human kidney has about 1 million 48. The opening and closing of the stomatal
nephridia pore depends upon [NCERT Exemplar
(d) Tracheids and vessels are non-living Problems]
conducting tissues. (a) oxygen
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(b) temperature Explanation:

(c) water in guard cells (b) The Assertion and the Reason are correct
(d) concentration of CO2 in stomata but the Reason is not the correct explanation
of the Assertion.
Answer
Answer: c 52. Assertion: All proteins in our food are
digested in small intestine only.
Direction (Q49 to Q53): In the following Reason: The protein digesting enzymes are
Questions, the Assertion and Reason have released onto small intestine.
been put forward. Read the statements
carefully and choose the correct alternative Answer/Explanation
from the following: Answer: d
(a) Both the Assertion and the Reason are Explanation:
correct and the Reason is the correct (d) The statement of the Assertion is false but
explanation of the Assertion. the Reason is true.
(b) The Assertion and the Reason are correct
but the Reason is not the correct explanation 53. Assertion: Human heart does not allow
of the Assertion. mixing of oxygen reach blood with carbon
(c) Assertion is true but the Reason is false. dioxide reach blood.
(d) The statement of the Assertion is false but Reason: Human heart has different chambers.
the Reason is true.
49. Assertion: When air is passed through lime Answer/Explanation
water, lime water turns milky. Answer: a
Reason: Air contains 78% nitrogen and 21% Explanation:
oxygen. (a) Both the Assertion and the Reason are
correct and the Reason is the correct
Answer/Explanation explanation of the Assertion.
Answer: b
Explanation: 54. The _____________ is where the
(b) The Assertion and the Reason are correct respiratory and digestive passage come
but the Reason is not the correct explanation together.
of the Assertion.
Answer/Explanation
50. Assertion: Veins have thin walls to collect Answer:
blood from different organs. Explanation: pharynx
Reason: Blood in veins are not under
pressure. 55. The conditions necessary for photosynthe-
sis to take place are _____________ ,
Answer/Explanation _____________ , _____________ and
Answer: a _____________ .
Explanation:
(a) Both the Assertion and the Reason are Answer/Explanation
correct and the Reason is the correct Answer:
explanation of the Assertion. Explanation: sunlight, chlorophyll, carbon
dioxide and water
51. Assertion: Human being has a complex
respiratory system. 56. The process in which the digested food
Reason: Human skin is impermeable to gases. passes through the intestinal wall into blood
stream is called ________ .
Answer/Explanation
Answer: b Answer/Explanation
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Answer: Answer/Explanation
Explanation: absorption Answer:
Explanation: Tracheids
57. The teeth covered with a sticky, yellowish
layer of food particles and bacteria is called 64. The liqid part of blood is called
_____________ . _____________ .

Answer/Explanation Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer:
Explanation: plaque Explanation: plasma

58. Iodine turns blue-black on reacting with 65. The expansion of an artery each time the
_____________ . blood is forced into it, is called
_____________ .
Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer/Explanation
Explanation: starch Answer:
Explanation: pulse
59. The energy produced during respiration is
stored in the form of ATP which stands for 66. Gums and resins are the _____________
_____________ . products of plants.

Answer/Explanation Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer:
Explanation: Adenosine Tri-phosphate Explanation: waste

60. Pyruric acid is a three carbon compound Direction (Q67 to Q68): Match Column I with
which is also known as _____________ . Column II.
67.
Answer/Explanation
Answer: Column I Column II Animal
Explanation: pyruvate Respiratory Organ (i) Fish (A)
Trachea(ii) Birds (B) Gills (iii) Aquatic
61. The rate of breathing in _____________ Arthropoda (C) Lungs (iv)
animals in much faster than in Earthworm (D) Moist cuticle
_____________ animals. Answer/Explanation
Answer:
Answer/Explanation Explanation:
Answer: (i) (B)
Explanation: aquatic, terriestial (ii) (C)
(iii) (A)
62. The actual exchange of gases takes place (iv) (D)
in the _____________ of the lungs.
68.
Answer/Explanation
Answer: Column I Column II Region of
Explanation: alveoli digestive system Digestive juice (A)
Mouth (i) Pancreatic juice (B) Stomach
63. _____________ are long, thin, spindle (ii) Intestinal juice (C)
shaped cell with pits in their thick cell walls. Duodenum (iii) Gastric juice(D) Small
intestine (iv) Saliva Answer/Explanation
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Answer: Answer:
Explanation: Explanation: False
(A) (iv)
(B) (iii) 75. The length of small intestine in a human
(C) (i) adult is about 3.5 m. [True/False]
(D) (ii)
Answer/Explanation
69. Glomerulus acts as a dialysis bag. [True/ Answer:
False] Explanation: False

Answer/Explanation 76. Carbohydrates are the components of our

Answer: food which is digested by an enzyme which is
Explanation: True present in saliva as well as in pancreatic juice.
[True/False]
70. Bowman’s capsule is found in heart.
[True/False] Answer/Explanation
Answer:
Answer/Explanation Explanation: True
Answer:
Explanation: False 77. Cytoplasm are the sites of aerobic
respiration in the cells. [True/False]
71. Peristaltic movement of muscles occurs in
the mouth to push food into alimentary canal. Answer/Explanation
[True/False] Answer:
Explanation: False
Answer/Explanation
Answer: 78. The respiration in plants occurs at a fast
Explanation: False rate whereas the respiration in animals occur
at a much slower rate. [True/False]
72. The release of energy in aerobic process is
less than in anaerobic process. [True/False] Answer/Explanation
Answer:
Answer/Explanation Explanation: False
Answer:
Explanation: False 79. What do you mean by life processes?

73. Before testing for starch, chlorophyll has Answer/Explanation

to be removed from the leaf as it interferes in Answer:
the test for starch due to its green colour. Explanation:
[True/False] Processes which perform maintenance job in
our body.
Answer/Explanation
Answer: 80. Name the activity of living beings which
Explanation: True considered as indication of life?

74. The process in which the absorbed food is Answer/Explanation

taken in by body cells and used for energy, Answer:
growth and repair is called egestion. Explanation: Movement.
[True/False]
81. Name the basic requirement of living
Answer/Explanation organisms needed to obtain energy.
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Explanation:
Answer/Explanation Starch is produced in the uncovered part of
Answer: the leaf due to photosynthesis which turns
Explanation: Food blue-black in presence of iodine solution.

82. Name the process by which plants prepare 88. Name a unicellular organism which uses
food. cilia to move food particles into its mouth.

Answer/Explanation Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer:
Explanation: Photosynthesis Explanation: Paramoecium.

83. Mention the raw materials required for 89. Mention how organisms like bread moulds
photosynthesis. [CBSE 2014] and mushrooms obtain their food.

Answer/Explanation Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer:
Explanation: Explanation:
The raw materials required for photosynthesis Organisms like bread moulds and mushrooms
are carbon dioxide and water in presence of break down the food materials outside the
sunlight and chlorophyll. body and then absorb it.

84. Name four nutrients needed by the plants 90. Classify the followings as saprotrophs or
which are taken up from the soil. parasites:
leech, yeast, mushroom
Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer/Explanation
Explanation: Answer:
Nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, and magnesium. Explanation:
Saprotrophs : yeast, mushroom
85. Name the cell organelle in which Parasites : leech
photosynthesis occur. [DoE]
91. Which enzyme present in saliva breaks
Answer/Explanation down starch?
Answer:
Explanation: Chloroplast Answer/Explanation
Answer:
86. Name the green pigment present in the Explanation:
leaves of a plant. The saliva contains an enzyme called salivary
amylase that breaks down starch.
Answer/Explanation
Answer: 92. Why does our mouth ‘water’ when we see
Explanation: Chlorophyll. or eat a food which we really like?

87. In the experiment “Light is essential for Answer/Explanation

photosynthesis”, why does the uncovered Answer:
part of the leaf turn blue-black after putting Explanation:
iodine solution? [HOTS] Due to the production of saliva by the salivary
glands in the mouth.
Answer/Explanation
Answer:
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93. Why does bread taste sweet on Explanation:

mastication? Small intestine.

Answer/Explanation 99. What is emulsification? [DoE]

Answer:
Explanation: Answer/Explanation
Salivary amylase act on starch of food and Answer:
change it into a sweet sugar called maltose. Explanation:
Breakdown of large gloubule fats into smaller
94. Which pancreatic enzyme is effective in fats droplets is known as emulsification.
digesting proteins?
100. What is the name given to the biological
Answer/Explanation catalyst which speed up the chemical
Answer: reactions taking place in cells.
Explanation:
Trypsin is the pancreatic enzyme which is Answer/Explanation
effective in digesting proteins. Answer:
Explanation: Enzymes.
95. Where does digestion of fat take place in
our body? 101. Name the muscle which regulates the
exit of food from stomach to small intestine.
Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer/Explanation
Explanation: Answer:
Digestion of fat takes place in the small Explanation: Sphincter muscle.
intestine of our body.
102. How does the acidic medium in the small
96. What is alimentary canal? intestine is converted into alkaline for
pancreatic enzymes?
Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer/Explanation
Explanation: Answer:
It is a long tube extending from mouth to anus Explanation: By the action of bile juice
in which digestion and absorption of food secreted by liver.
takes place.
103. In which part of alimentary canal
97. Define peristaltic movement? [DoE] digestion does not occur?

Answer/Explanation Answer/Explanation
Answer: Answer:
Explanation: Explanation: Large intestine
Peristaltic movement is defined as contraction
and relaxation of muscles in the food pipe . 104. Name the structure which regulates the
which brings food down the pipe into the exit of waste material.
stomach.
Answer/Explanation
98. Name the longest part of the alimentary Answer:
canal. Explanation: Anal sphincter.

Answer/Explanation 105. State the basic difference between the

Answer: process of respiration and photosynthesis.
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8. ………. transports products of

Answer/Explanation photosynthesis from the leaves to other parts
Answer: of the plant.
Explanation:
Respiration uses O2 and releases CO2 but in Answers
photosynthesis, CO2 is used and O2 is 1. sphincter
released. 2. Small intestine
3. cytoplasm
106. Name the pigment present in human 4. Small intestine
which aids in respiration. 5. mitochondria
6. air-passage does not collapse
Answer/Explanation 7. platelet
Answer: 8. phloem
Explanation: Haemoglobin.

107. Give one point which is common for both

aerobic and anaerobic respiration.

Answer/Explanation
Answer:
Explanation:
In both aerobic and anaerobic respiration, the
chemical used is glucose.

108. Why is anaerobic respiration less

efficient?

Answer/Explanation
Answer:
Explanation:
Anaerobic respiration is the incomplete
breakdown of glucose and produces less
energy, so it is less efficient.

Fill in the Blanks

1. The exit of food from the stomach is
regulated by a ………. muscle.
2. ………. is the longest part of the alimentary
canal.
3. The process of breakdown of glucose, (a
six-carbon molecule) into pyruvate, (a three-
carbon molecule), takes place in the ………. .
4. ………. is the site of the complete digestion
of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
5. Breaking of pyruvate using oxygen takes
place in the ………. .
6. Rings of cartilage are present in the wind
pipe to ensure that the ………. .
7. The blood has ………. cells which plug the
leakage in the vessels by helping to clot the
blood at the point of injury.