Monday, 11 June 2018

REACHING THE AGE OF ADOLESCENCE 8

Practice Paper
Subject Biology (2019)
Class VIII            Ch-REACHING THE AGE OF ADOLESCENCE                 
  1. Why should teenagers take a bath at least once everyday?
  2. What are chromosomes?
  3. What is the period of adolescence?
  4. What do you understand by the term adolescence?
  5. When does the puberty end?
  6. What causes increase in height of the person during puberty?
  7. Why is it necessary to eat right kind of food during the growing years?
  8. What is the other name for voice box in males?
  9. Why does the voice of boys become hoarse during the age of adolescence?
  10. How many pairs of chromosomes are there in the cells of human beings?
  11. What determines the sex of an unborn baby?
  12. Why is iron necessary for the body?
  13. Name the male and female hormones that are secreted at the onset of puberty
  14. What is the function of mammary glands?
  15. Name the gland whose secretion control the secretion of sex hormones.
  16. Name the hormone that causes metamorphosis in frogs.
  17. What will be the sex of the individual with sex chromosomes as XY?
  18. What is the period of reproductive phase in females?
  19. What are the differences between menarche and menopause?
  20. What is menstruation?
  21. Why endocrine glands are called ductless glands? Give two examples.
  22. A girl is 13 years old and 135 cm tall. At the end of growth period how much tall will she be?
  23. What is the difference between the voice of a girl and a boy? Why this happens?
  24. What is the importance of adrenal glands in humans?
  25. Write the causes of: (a)Diabetes(B)Goiter
  26. What mental changes occur during puberty?
  27. Why a girl should not become pregnant during teenage?
  28. Why young people get acne and pimples during puberty?
  29. How do hormones act to bring about onset of puberty?
  30. List three secondary sexual characters of boys and girls? 

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