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Grade 10 Science: Comprehensive Index (NCERT/CBSE/State Boards)

Unit I: Chemical Substances - Nature and Behavior

Chapter 1: Chemical Reactions and Equations

• Chemical equations and balancing

• Types of chemical reactions: Combination, Decomposition, Displacement, Double displacement

• Effects of oxidation in everyday life: Corrosion and Rancidity

Chapter 2: Acids, Bases and Salts

• Chemical properties of acids and bases

• pH scale and importance of pH in everyday life

• Chemicals from common salt: Sodium Hydroxide, Bleaching powder, Baking soda, Washing soda, Plaster of Paris

Chapter 3: Metals and Non-Metals

• Physical and chemical properties of metals and non-metals

• Reactivity series

• Formation and properties of ionic compounds

• Basic metallurgical processes and prevention of corrosion

Chapter 4: Carbon and its Compounds

• Covalent bonding in carbon compounds

• Versatile nature of carbon and homologous series

• Nomenclature of carbon compounds containing functional groups

• Chemical properties of carbon compounds (Combustion, Oxidation, Addition, Substitution)

• Ethanol and Ethanoic acid

• Soaps and detergents

Unit II: World of Living

Chapter 5: Life Processes

• Concept of "living"

• Nutrition: Autotrophic and Heterotrophic

• Respiration: Aerobic and Anaerobic

• Transportation in human beings and plants

• Excretion in human beings and plants

Chapter 6: Control and Coordination

• Tropic movements in plants and introduction to plant hormones

• Control and coordination in animals: Nervous system

• Voluntary, involuntary, and reflex action

• Chemical coordination: Animal hormones

Chapter 7: How do Organisms Reproduce?

• Reproduction in animals and plants (asexual and sexual)

• Reproductive health: Need and methods of family planning

• Safe sex vs. HIV/AIDS

• Childbearing and women’s health

Chapter 8: Heredity and Evolution

• Heredity: Mendel’s contribution and laws for inheritance of traits

• Sex determination: Brief introduction

• Basic concepts of evolution (Acquired vs. Inherited traits)

Unit III: Natural Phenomena

Chapter 9: Light – Reflection and Refraction

• Reflection of light by curved surfaces

• Images formed by spherical mirrors, center of curvature, principal axis, principal focus, focal length

• Mirror formula and magnification

• Refraction; Laws of refraction, refractive index

• Refraction of light by spherical lens; Images formed by spherical lenses

• Lens formula and magnification; Power of a lens

Chapter 10: The Human Eye and the Colourful World

• Functioning of a lens in the human eye

• Defects of vision and their corrections

• Refraction of light through a prism

• Dispersion of light, scattering of light, and applications in nature

Unit IV: Effects of Current

Chapter 11: Electricity

• Electric current, potential difference, and electric current

• Ohm’s law; Resistance, Resistivity

• Factors on which the resistance of a conductor depends

• Series and Parallel combination of resistors and its applications in daily life

• Heating effect of electric current and its applications in daily life

• Electric power, Interrelation between P, V, I, and R

Chapter 12: Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

• Magnetic field, field lines, field due to a current-carrying conductor

• Field due to current carrying coil or solenoid

• Force on current carrying conductor, Fleming’s Left Hand Rule

• Direct current. Alternating current: frequency of AC. Advantage of AC over DC

• Domestic electric circuits

Unit V: Natural Resources

Chapter 13: Our Environment

• Eco-system and Environmental problems

• Ozone depletion, waste production, and their solutions

• Biodegradable and non-biodegradable substances