Maharashtra State Board Syllabus For 7th Standard General Science: Knowing the Syllabus is very important for the students of 7th Standard. Shaalaa has also provided a list of topics that every student needs to understand.
The Maharashtra State Board 7th Standard General Science syllabus for the academic year 2022-2023 is based on the Board's guidelines. Students should read the 7th Standard General Science Syllabus to learn about the subject's subjects and subtopics.
Students will discover the unit names, chapters under each unit, and subtopics under each chapter in the Maharashtra State Board 7th Standard General Science Syllabus pdf 2022-2023. They will also receive a complete practical syllabus for 7th Standard General Science in addition to this.
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Syllabus
1 The Living World: Adaptations and Classification
- Biodiversity
- Biodiversity
- Type of biodiversity
(i) Genetic diversity
(ii) Species diversity
(iii) Ecosystem diversity - Global biodiversity and a proportionate number of species of major taxa of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates
- Adaptations and Its Types
- Adaptation
- Some more examples of adaptations
- Three basic types of adaptations
- Structural adaptations
- Physiological adaptations
- Behavioural adaptations
- Adaptations of Plants
- Adaptation in Animals
- Classification
- Classification
- Why do we classify things?
- Need for Classification
- Advantage of Classification
- Taxonomic Hierarchy of Living Organisms: Unit of Classification
- Taxonomic Hierarchy of Living Organisms
- Species
- Genus
- Family
- Order
- Class
- Phylum
- Kingdom
- Nomenclature
2 Plants: Structure and Function
3 Properties of Natural Resources
- Air Around Us
- Air Around us
- Properties of air
- Experiments with an empty bottle
- Physical Properties of Water
- Physical Properties of Water:
- Nature
- Boiling point
- The freezing point of water or melting point of ice
- Density
- Anomalous expansion of water
- Latent heat of fusion of ice
- Latent heat of vaporization of water
- Specific heat capacity
- Water - a Universal Solvent
- Universal Solvent
- Experiment: To show that ordinary tap water contains dissolved solids.
- Importance of dissolved salts in water.
- Air dissolved in water.
- Experiment: To show that tap water contains dissolved gases (air).
- Importance of air dissolved in water.
- Importance of Water
- Soil: "Teeming with Life"
- Different Types of Soil
- Coarse soil
- Regur or Black soil
- Laterite Soil
- Alluvial soil of the coastal strip
- Yellow brown soil
- Structure of Soil
- Uses of Soil
- Soil Testing
- Soil Degradation
- Causes of Diminished Soil Fertility
4 Nutrition in Living Organisms
- Nutrients and Nutrition
- What are Nutrients?
- Types of Nutrients
- Functions of Nutrients/Need of Nutrients
- Some important Nutrients
- What do various nutrients do for our body?
- Nutrition in Plants
- Mode of Nutrition in Plant
- Transportation of Water and Food in Plants
- Permanent Tissue
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Nutrition in Animals
- Mode of Nutrition in Animals
- Classification of Animal
- Animal and their food
- Classification of animal on the basis of food
- Herbivores
- Carnivores
- Omnivores
- Scavengers
- Decomposers
5 Food Safety
- Spoilage of Food
- Food Wastage
- Preservation of Food
- Methods of Food Preservation
- Food Adulteration
- Food adulteration and its harmful effect
6 Measurement of Physical Quantities
- Physical Quantities
- Physical Quantities
- Fundamental Quantities
- Derived quantities
- Scalar quantities
- Vector Quantities
- Mass and Weight
- Unit and Its Types
- Unit Systems
- Unit Systems:
- FPS: Foot Pound Second system
- CGS: Centimetre Gram Second system
- MKS: Metre Kilogram Second system
- SI: System International
- International System of Units (SI System)
- SI System of unit
- Why do we need SI Units?
- Multiples and Sub-multiples of SI Units
- Accuracy in Measurements
7 Motion, Force and Work
- Motion and Rest
- What is rest?
- What is motion?
- Rest and motion are relative
- Distance and Displacement
- Distance
- Displacement
- Distinction between Distance and Displacement
- Speed
- Speed
- Formula of Speed
- Unit of Speed
- Examples of Speed
- Types of Speed
- Types of Speed
- Uniform Speed
- Non-Uniform speed
- Instantaneous Speed
- Average Speed
- Velocity
- Velocity
- Formula of Velocity
- Unit of Velocity
- Examples of Velocity
- Types of Velocity
- Types of Velocity
- Uniform Velocity
- Non-Uniform Velocity
- Instantaneous Velocity
- Average Velocity
- Acceleration and Retardation
- Acceleration
- Formula of Acceleration
- Unit of Acceleration
- Relation for acceleration
- Types of Acceleration
- Types of Acceleration
- Positive acceleration
- Negative acceleration or Deceleration or Retardation
- Uniform acceleration
- Variable acceleration
- Force and Accleration
- Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Concept of Work
- Definition of work
- Units of work
- Relationship between joule and erg
- Positive, Negative, and Zero Work
- Measurement of Work
- Measurement of work
- Expression of work ( W = F S cos θ)
- Positive, Negative, and Zero Work
8 Static Electricity
- Static Electricity
- Electric Charge
- Charge
- Unit of charge
- Electric charges
- What is the origin of an electric charge?
- Measuring the electric charge
- Transfer of Charges
- Frictional Electricity
- Electroscope
- Lightning and Lightning Safety
9 Heat
- Heat and Its Unit
- Heat
- Unit of Heat
- Transfer of Heat
- Radiation
- Radiations
- Sources of harmful radiations
- Harmful effects of radiations
- Some important applications of black and white surfaces in daily life.
- Radiation
- Hot and Cold Objects
- Expansion of Substances (Thermal Expansion)
- Thermal Expansion
- Uses of Thermal Expansion
- Thermal Expansion Examples
- Expansion of Solids
- Linear Expansion
- Superficial or areal expansion
- Cubical Expansion or volumetric expansion
- Some applications in daily life
- Expansion of Liquids
- Expansion in liquids
- Real expansion
- Apparent expansion
- Experiment to measure real and apparent expansion of liquid
- Thermos Flask (Dewar Flask)
10 Disaster Management
- Disaster
- Disasters
- Types of Disasters
1) Geophysical
2) Biological
3) Man Made
- Disaster Management
- Disaster management
- Objectives of Disaster Management
- Drought (Famine)
- Cloudburst
- Flood
- Lightning and Lightning Safety
- Volcanoes
- Tsunami
- Storm
11 Cell Structure and Micro-organisms
- Cell: the Fundamental Unit of Life
- Cell
- Totipotency
- Experiment: Microscopic examination of onion peel.
- Cell to Organism
- The Invention of the Microscope and the Discovery of Cell
- Organisms Show Variety in Cell Number, Shape and Size
- Cell Numbers
- Cell Size
- Smallness of cells: A Greater Efficiency
- Cell Shapes: To suit Functional Requirement
- Plant Cell and Animal Cell
- Structure of a Cell
- Structure of a Cell
- Organ and Organelle
- Nucleus - “Brain” of the Cell
- Nuclear Membrane
- Nucleoli
- Nucleoplasm
- Chromatin fibres
- Experiment: An experiment on amoeba to show that the nucleus is essential for a normal life.
- Non-living Substances Or Cell Inclusion
- Granules
- Vacuoles
- Plastids
- Plastids
- Leucoplasts
- Chromoplasts
- Chloroplast - “Food Producers”
- Microorganisms (Microbes) and Microbiology
- Harmful Effects of Microorganisms (Microbes)
- Fungi, Clostridium and others
- Uses of Microorganisms (Microbes)
- Dairy Products
- Yoghurt Products
- Butter
- Cheese production
- Probiotics
- Bread
- Vinegar Production
- Production of beverages
- Microbial Enzymes
- Organic acids used in various commercial products and microbes useful for the same
- Substances obtained by microbial processing and their roles
- Antibiotics
- Microbes and Fuels
- Bio-fuel
- Microbial Pollution Control
- Land-filling site
- Sewage Management
- Clean Technology
- Microbes and Farming
- Microbial Inoculants
- Bioinsecticides
- Pathogens: Disease-producing Micro-organisms
12 The Muscular System and Digestive System in Human Beings
- Muscular System
- Structure of muscles
- How do muscles work?
- Coordination of Muscles
- Antagonistic Muscles
- Muscles and Its Types
- Voluntary Muscles or Skeletal Muscles
- Involuntary Muscles or Smooth muscle
- Cardiac Muscles
- Human Digestive System
- Human Digestive System
- Alimentary canal
- Associated digestive glands
- The Mouth and Buccal Cavity
- The Teeth and Its Structure
- The Salivary Glands
- Swallowing and Peristalsis
- The Food Pipe/Oesophagus
- The Stomach
- The Small Intestine
- Pancreas
- The Large Intestine
- Liver
- Effects of Tobacco, Alcohol, Smoking, on the Digestive System
13 Changes – Physical and Chemical
- Change
- Classification of Change: Natural and Man-made Changes
- Classification of Change: Harmful and Useful Changes
- Classification of Change: Slow and Fast Changes
- Classification of Change: Reversible and Irreversible Changes
- Classification of Change: Periodic and Non-periodic Changes
- Classification of Change: Physical Changes
- Classification of Change: Chemical Changes
- Chemical Change
- Properties of Chemical Change
- Importance of Chemical Change
- Corrosion of Metals and Its Prevention
14 Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
- Matter (Substance)
- Matter
- Creation of Matter
- Physical Nature of matter
- The matter is made up of particles
- How small is this particles of matter
- Colour, odour, melting point, boiling point, density
- Chemical properties: Composition, combustibility, activity with acids and bases
- Elements
- Element
- Characteristics of Element
- Common Element
- In the universe
- In the Earth's crust
- Elements in the human Body
- Elements in air
- Birth of the Element
- Symbols Used to Represent Atoms of Different Elements
- Compound
- Molecular Formula of an Compounds
- Mixture
- Separation of Mixtures
- Methods of Separation
- Chromatography Method
- Chromatography
- Types of chromatography
- Adsorption chromatography
i) Column chromatography
ii) Thin layer chromatography (TLC) - Partition chromatography: paper chromatography
- Chromatography Method
15 Materials We Use
- Toothpaste
- Detergents
- Detergents
- Types of Detergents
- Preparation of detergents
- Soap
- Soap
- Types of soaps
- Hard soaps
- Soft soaps
- Manufacture of soap
- Effect of hard water on soap
- Cleansing Action of Soap
- Cement
16 Natural Resources
- Natural Resource
- Mineral Resources
- Minerals
- Formation of minerals
- Classification of Minerals
- Distribution of Minerals and Ores
- Oil - Mumbai High (Offshore Oil Field);
- Iron – Singhbhum
- Coal – Jharia
- Ores
- Ores
- Types of ore
- Importance of ores
- Fuel
- Non-crystalline/Amorphous Forms: Coal
- Petroleum
- Mineral Oil
- Natural Gas
- Forest Resources
- Medicinal Plant
- Ocean Resources
17 Effects of Light
- Colour
- Scattering of Light and Its Types
- Scattering of Light
- Types of Scattering of Light
- Elastic scattering
- Inelastic scattering
(a) Rayleigh scattering
(b) Rayleigh’s scattering law
(c) Mie scattering
(d) Tyndall scattering
(e) Raman scattering
- Experiment of Scattering of Light
- Shadow
- Formation of Shadow
- Eclipses
- Zero Shadow Day
18 Sound: Production of Sound
- Sound
- Sound
- Types of Sound
- Longitudinal wave
- Transverse wave
- Categories of sound waves based on their frequencies
- Audible waves
- Infrasonic waves
- Ultrasonic waves
- Musical Instruments
- Oscillator, Oscillation and Oscillatory Motion
- A Time Period of Oscillation and Frequency
- Properties of Sounds
- Pitch (or shrillness) and frequency
- Pitch (or shrillness)
- Examples of change in pitch
- Subjective nature of pitch and objective nature of frequency
- Loudness and Intensity
- Loudness
- Intensity
- Subjective nature of loudness and objective nature of intensity
- Factors affecting the loudness of sound
- Relationship between loudness and intensity
- Audibility and Range
- Audibility and Range
- Audible sound
- Infrasonic sound
- Ultrasonic sound
- Pitch (or shrillness) and frequency
- Ultrasonic Sound Or Ultrasound
- Ultrasonic Sound or Ultrasound
- Applications of ultrasonic waves
- Difference between ultrasonic and supersonic
19 Properties of a Magnetic Field
- Magnet and Its Characteristics
- Magnet
- Properties of a magnet
1) Attractive Property
2) Directive Property
3) Laws of magnetic poles
4) Poles exist in pairs
5) Sure test of polarity
6) Magnetic induction
- Earth’s Magnetism
- Earth’s Magnetism
- Earth’s Magnetic Field
- Finding Directions with a Magnet
- Magnetic Field
- Magnetic Field Lines
- Magnetic Field Lines
- Magnetic flux
- Properties of magnetic lines of force
- Metal Detectors
20 In the World of Stars
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