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8th Science : Chapter 18 : Organisation of Life : Student Activities with Questions Answers, Solution

Activity 1

Boil a hen’s egg and remove the shell. What do you observe? A white material surrounds the yellow part. White material is albumin which solidifies on boiling. The yellow part is yolk. It is a part of the single cell. You can observe this single cell without any magnifying devices.


Activity 2

Stand erect and wave your hands in side wards. Take a deep breath and feel your rib movements. Then run some 100 metres and observe the rib movements. Discuss in the class room about what you observed.


Activity 3

Constructing a model of lungs.

Materials required

Y shaped tube, a large balloon, two small balloons, a one litre plastic bottle, cork.

Method of Construction

Cut off the plastic bottle in the middle. Fix two small balloons in both the ends of the Y-tube. Make a hole in the cork and fix the y-tube. Make a small hole in the cork and fix the y-tube through the hole as shown in the picture. Cut a large balloon into two halves and fix one half tightly around the open part of the bottle.

Method of Working

Hold the large balloon in the middle and pull it slowly downwards as shown in the picture. Observe the change in the balloons inside the bottle. Now leave the balloon free.



Our body is developed from a single cell called zygote. The Zygote undergoes continuous mitotic division and forms the foetus ­consisting multitude of cells of different shape, size and content. Foetal cells gradually attain change in structure and function. This process is known as cell differentiation.


On an average, an adult humanbeing at rest breathes in andout 15 – 18 times in a minute­. During heavy exercise, breathing rate can increase upto 25 times per minute.

Smoking damages lungs. Smoking is also linked to cancer. It must be avoided.

When you sneeze, you should cover your nose so that the foreign particles you expel are not inhaled by others.

The mixing of foodstuffs and digestive juices in the gut occurs by diffusion. Exchange of respiratory gases (Oxygen and Carbondioxide) between blood and tissue fluids between tissue fluid and cells also occurs by diffusion.

More to know

Aerobic respiration releases 19 times more energy than anaerobic respiration from the same amount of glucose. In aerobic respiration each glucose molecules produce 36 ATPs.

More to know

Basal metabolism refers to the minimum energy required to maintain the normal activities of the body during complete rest in a warm atmosphere, 12 – 18 hours after the intake of food.

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