Monday, 24 December 2012

CBSE Class7/8/9/10 - English Grammar (Reported Speech)

English Grammar (Reported Speech)

Q: Change the following into reported speech.

1. She asked, “Is there a shopping center near here?”
2. He says, “I am doing my duty.”
3. She said to me, "I am a good dancer."
4. Mohan said to me, "I clean the black shoes."
5. She said, "I went to the cinema yesterday."
6. She said, "I am not hungry now."
7. The owner said to the servant, “Will you come tomorrow?”

Sunday, 23 December 2012

CBSE Class 7 - Maths - Comparing Quantities (NCERT Ex 8.3) - Profit and Loss and Simple Interest

Comparing Quantities
Profit & Loss and Simple Interest
CBSE Class 7 - Maths - Comparing Quantities (NCERT Ex 8.3) - Profit and Loss and Simple Interest

Important points
Simple Interest
1. C.P. = Cost Price (Amount at which goods are purchased)
2. Sales Tax, VAT, cartage etc.are included in cost price.
3. S.P. = Selling Price (Amount at which goods are sold)
4. If SP > CP then it is Profit or Gain. Profit = SP - CP
5. If CP > SP then it is Loss. Loss = CP - SP
6. Profit of Loss per cent is always calculated on the cost price.


Friday, 21 December 2012

CBSE Class 10 - Science - CH 15 - Our Environment (Worksheet)

Our Environment (Worksheet)
ozone layer protects from harmful UV
credits:openclipart

Fill in the blanks

1. Our environment has four components: ________, _________, __________ and ____________.

2. Abnormal increase of the temperature in the environment due to the continuous accumulation of gaseous pollutants is known as __________ _____________.

3. An ecosystem consists of ________components comprising of living organisms and ________ components comprising of physical factors like temperature, rainfall, wind, soil and minerals.

4. __________ is one of the green house gas. It is used as solvent, refrigerants, aerosol spray propellants and in foam packaging.

Thursday, 20 December 2012

CBSE Class 9 - PSA Quiz (English)

PSA Quiz (English)

MCQs
Q1:  The hypocritical minister spoke about the need to save diesel, but drove around in a big SUV. 'Hyocritical' stands for ______________.

(a) highly moral
(b) non sincere
(c) arrogant
(d) sincere

Q2: She has an insatiable love for dancing. 'insatiable' stands for ____________

(a) unquenchable
(b) stubborn
(c) undesirable
(d) voracious

CBSE Class 7 - Science - CH8 - Winds, Storms and Cyclones

Winds, Storms and Cyclones
CBSE Class 7 - Science - CH8 - Winds, Storms and Cyclones
Cyclone Hit at Samoa Islands
credits: NOAA

NCERT Solutions, Q & A

Q1: Fill the missing word in the blank spaces in the following statements:

(a) Wind is _________ air.
(b) Winds are generated due to ________ heating on the earth.
(c) Near the earth’s surface __________air rises up whereas ___________ air comes down.
(d) Air moves from a region of _________ pressure to a region of ___________ pressure.
(e) Air around us exerts __________ in all directions.
(f) Winds carrying ______________ bring rain.
(g) Air _________ on heating while ________ on cooling.
(h) A cyclone is called a __________ in the American continents and __________ in Japan and Philippines.
(i) The word monsoon is derived from the Arabic word _________, which means ‘season’.

Answer:
(a) moving
(b) uneven
(c) warm, cooler

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

CBSE Class 9 - Geography - CH4 - Climate

CLIMATE
Indian Monsoon
credits:wikipedia
MCQs

Q1(NCERT): Which one of the following places receives the highest rainfall in the world?
(a) Silchar
(b) Mawsynram
(c) Cherrapunji
(d) Guwahati


Q2(CBSE 2010): The term monsoon is originated from?

(a) German
(b) Hindi
(c) Latin
(d) Arabic


Q3: The 'Coriolis force' is caused due to:

(a) wind movements
(b) the Earth's rotation
(c) cyclone depressions
(d) jet streams

Monday, 17 December 2012

CBSE Class 11 - C++ Snippets (Part-6)

Graphics Support in TC
c++ snippets
c++ snippets
Turbo C++ has support for various DOS mode graphics (CGA, VGA, SVGA etc.).


Various graphics functions are supported in GRAPHICS.LIB. You need to include <graphics.h> file in your code.
Following are essential functions to be called to invoke graphics mode:

initgraph( ):  initializes the application to work in graphics mode. It takes three arguments, DETECT, graphics mode and path of *.BGI files.

closegraph( ): closes the graphics mode and switches the application back to test mode.