Question Paper
Class / Subject: Class 10 (SSC) · Science and Technology (विज्ञान आणि तंत्रज्ञान)
Chapter: Chapter 12 — Chapter 12: Life Processes in Living Organisms - Part 1
Time Allowed: 32 minutes
Max Marks: 16
1. What is nutrition? [1]
(A) Obtaining and processing food
(B) Only releasing energy
(C) Only removing waste
(D) Only reproducing
2. What is an autotroph? [1]
(A) An organism making its own food
(B) An organism eating others
(C) A type of waste
(D) A type of energy
3. What does photosynthesis convert? [1]
(A) Light, CO2, water into glucose and oxygen
(B) Only water into oxygen
(C) Only CO2 into glucose
(D) Nothing specific
4. Who performs photosynthesis? [1]
(A) Autotrophs (plants)
(B) Only heterotrophs
(C) Only animals
(D) No organisms
5. What is respiration? [1]
(A) Releasing energy from food
(B) Obtaining food only
(C) Removing waste only
(D) Growing bigger only
6. What are the two types of respiration? [1]
(A) Aerobic and anaerobic
(B) Only aerobic
(C) Only anaerobic
(D) Neither type exists
7. Where does respiration occur? [1]
(A) At the cellular level
(B) Only in the stomach
(C) Only in the lungs
(D) Nowhere specific
8. Why learn about these life processes? [1]
(A) To understand how organisms obtain energy for survival
(B) No reason
(C) It's not useful
(D) Only for tests
9. What is nutrition? [1]
(A) Obtaining and processing food
(B) Only releasing energy
(C) Only removing waste
(D) Only reproducing
10. What is an autotroph? [1]
(A) An organism making its own food
(B) An organism eating others
(C) A type of waste
(D) A type of energy
11. What does photosynthesis convert? [1]
(A) Light, CO2, water into glucose and oxygen
(B) Only water into oxygen
(C) Only CO2 into glucose
(D) Nothing specific
12. Who performs photosynthesis? [1]
(A) Autotrophs (plants)
(B) Only heterotrophs
(C) Only animals
(D) No organisms
13. What is respiration? [1]
(A) Releasing energy from food
(B) Obtaining food only
(C) Removing waste only
(D) Growing bigger only
14. What are the two types of respiration? [1]
(A) Aerobic and anaerobic
(B) Only aerobic
(C) Only anaerobic
(D) Neither type exists
15. Where does respiration occur? [1]
(A) At the cellular level
(B) Only in the stomach
(C) Only in the lungs
(D) Nowhere specific
16. Why learn about these life processes? [1]
(A) To understand how organisms obtain energy for survival
(B) No reason
(C) It's not useful
(D) Only for tests