ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL PANAGARH

PRACTICE PAPER
Class 09 - Science
Time Allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 180
Section A
1. What is hypertonic solution? [1]

2. What are the consequences of a cell having equal water [1]

concentration to its surrounding medium?

3. In brief state what happens when a Red Blood Cell is kept in a [1]
concentrated saline solution?

4. Name the organelle which shows the analogy as a digestive bag [1]
of the cell.

5. What is the common name of mitochondria? [1]

6. Is the plant cell wall living or dead? [1]

7. Which organelle serves as a channel for transport of materials [1]

between cytoplasm and nucleus?

8. Which kind of plastid is more common in flowers and fruits? [1]

9. A person takes concentrated solution of salt. After sometime he [1]

starts vomiting. What is the phenomenon responsible for such a
situation? Explain.

10. What is isotonic solution? [1]

11. Which organelle is associated with ribosome formation? [1]

12. What is the chemical composition of cell wall in plants and fungi [1]
respectively?
13. Write the name of different plant parts in which chromoplast, [1]
chloroplast and leucoplast are present.

14. Where is DNA found in cell? [1]

15. What is the outermost layer found in the plant cell? [1]

16. In brief state what happens when Rheo leaves are boiled in water [1]
first and then a drop of sugar syrup is put on it?

17. Name the organelle which shows the analogy as storage sacs of [1]
the cell.

18. Name any cell organelle which is non-membranous. [1]

19. Where are genes located? [1]

20. Which kind of plastid is more common in roots of the plant. [1]

Section B
21. Match the following Column A with Column B: [2]
Column A Column B
(a) Plasma (i) Plays a crucial role in detoxifying many
Membrane poisons and drugs
(ii) Allows or permits the entry and exit of
(b) Nucleus
some materials in and out of the cell
(c) Endoplasmic
(iii) Serve as the intracellular digestive system
reticulum
(iv) Controls all the metabolic activities of the
(d) Lysosomes
cell

22. Match the following Column A with Column B: [2]

Column A Column B
(a) Golgi Apparatus (i) Cell theory
(b) Virchow (ii) Cell
(c) Robert Brown (iii) Camillo Golgi
 (d) Robert Hooke (iv) Nucleus

23. Match the following Column A with Column B: [2]

Column A Column B
(a) Mitochondria (i) Helps in cell division in the animal cell
(b) Golgi
(ii) Sites of cellular respiration
apparatus
(c) Centrosome (iii) Produces vacuoles
(iv) Helps to maintain the osmotic pressure in
(d) Vacuoles
a cell

24. Match the following Column A with Column B: [2]

Column A Column B
(a) Nucleoid (i) Eukaryotic cells
(b) Nucleus (ii) Plant cells
(c) Plasma membrane (iii) Prokaryotic cells
(d) Plastids (iv) Fluid Mosaic Model

25. Match the following Column A with Column B: [2]

Column A Column B
(a) Active (i) Outward transport of substances by means of
Transport carrier molecules
(b) Pinocytosis (ii) Inward transport of substances in solid form
(iii) Movement of any substance through the
(c) Exocytosis
cell membrane that requires energy
(d)
(iv) Inward transport of substances in fluid form
Phagocytosis

26. Where do the lipids and proteins constituting the cell membrane [2]
get synthesised?
27. Why does the skin of your fingers shrinks when you wash clothes [2]
for a long time?

28. How do substances like CO2 and water move in and out of the [2]
cell? Discuss.

29. Write an activity describing the process of osmosis. [2]

30. Do you agree "A cell is a building unit of an organism". If yes, [2]
explain why.

31. How is a bacterial cell different from an onion peel cell? [2]

32. What is the importance of nucleus? [2]

33. What are lysosomes, peroxisomes and centrosome and write their [2]
functions?

34. Draw the structure of mitochondria. [2]

35. Name the cell organelle found in plant cells only. Write its types [2]
and function.

36. What would happen to the life of a cell if there was no Golgi [2]
apparatus?

37. Why is endocytosis found in animals only? [2]

38. What would happen if the plasma membrane ruptures or breaks [2]
down?

39. Where will you find more number of ribosomes-in cancer cells or [2]
in fat cells?

40. How does fungi and bacteria can withstand much greater changes [2]
in the surrounding medium than animal cells?

41. Draw a labelled diagram of mitochondria. write the functions of [2]

mitochondria.
42. If cell of onion peel and RBC are separately placed in hypotonic [2]
solution, what among the following will take place? Explain the
reason.
i. Both the cells will swell
ii. RBC will burst early while cells of onion peel will resist bursting
to some extent
iii. Both a and b are correct
iv. RBC and onion peel cells will behave similarly

43. How are chromatin, chromatid and chromosomes related to each [2]
other?
44. Illustrate only a plant cell as seen under electron microscope. How [2]
is it different from animal cell?

45. What is osmosis? [2]

Section C
46. What are the differences between cell wall and cell membrane? [3]

47. Differentiate between chromatin and chromosome. [3]

48. Differentiate between plant cell and animal cell. [3]

49. Distinguish between Plant cell and Animal cells. [3]

50. What is nucleoid? How it is different from the nucleus of [3]

eukaryotic cell?

51. Write main differences between plant cell and animal cell. [3]

52. There would be no plant life if chloroplasts did not exist. Justify. [3]

53. In brief, state what happens when dry apricots are left for some [3]
time in pure water and later transferred to sugar solution?

54. Differentiate between diffusion and osmosis. What is its [3]

importance?
55. What is the functional difference between a plasma membrane [3]
and cell wall?

56. Fill in the gaps in the following table illustrating differences [3]
between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Prokaryotic Cell Eukaryotic Cell
1. Size. Generally small (1 –
1. Size. Generally large (5 – 100 μm).
10 μm).
2. Nuclear Region ________ 2. Nuclear Region. Well defined and
and known as ________ surrounded by a nuclear membrane.
3. Chromosomes. Single 3. More than one Chromosome
4. Membrane Bound Cell
4. ________
Organelles. Absent.

57. Differentiate between active and passive transport. [3]

58. Differentiate between hypertonic and hypotonic solution. [3]

59. Observe the diagram of the cell below - answer the following [3]
questions.

i. Label the parts of the cell

ii. what function does part 1 perform?
iii. If the organelle 2 is removed from the cell, what effect is it
going to make on the functions of the cell?
iv. Identify, whether it is plant cell or animal cell
v. Which structure is called 'Powerhouse of the cells'?

60. How are the following related to each other? [3]

 i. Chromatin network and chromosomes
ii. Chloroplast and chlorophyll
iii. Genes and DNA

61. How is a prokaryotic cell different from a eukaryotic cell? [3]

62. What is the difference between plasma membrane and cell wall ? [3]
Give the functions of each one.

63. Differentiate between RER and SER [3]

[3]
64.

a. Label X and Y
b. What is the function of X?
c. What is the composition of Y?
d. Identify the above diagram and what is its common name?

65. What is prokaryotic cell? Differentiate between prokaryotic cell & [3]
eukaryotic cell?

Section D
66. Make a comparison and write down ways in which plant cells are [5]
different from animal cells.
67. Why are mitochondria called powerhouse of the cell? Give three [5]
similarities and one difference between mitochondria and plastid.

68. Write a note on Golgi apparatus and the functions it performs. [5]
69. What is membrane biogenesis? How is plasma membrane formed [5]
during this process?

70. Draw a plant cell and label the parts which [5]
i. determines the function and development of the cell
ii. packages materials coming from the endoplasmic reticulum
 iii. provides resistance to microbes to withstand hypotonic external
media without bursting
iv. is site for many biochemical reactions necessary to sustain life.
v. is a fluid contained inside the nucleus

71. i. State what will happen when human red blood cells are placed [5]
in a hypotonic salt/sugar solution.
ii. Why plant cell shrinks when kept in a hypertonic solution.
iii. Why lysosomes are known as suicidal bags?

72. Draw a neat labelled diagram of an animal cell. [5]

73. Draw a well-labeled diagram of a eukaryotic nucleus. How is it [5]

different from the nucleoid?

74. Grass looks green, papaya appears yellow. Which cell organelle is [5]
responsible for this?

75. Differentiate between [5]

i. Cell wall and cell membrane.
ii. Nuclear region of a bacterial cell and nuclear region of an
animal cell.
iii. Prokaryotic cell & eukaryotic cell.