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Sample Paper – 2010

Class – IX

Subject – Social Science

CLASS IX
TIME : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80

1. The question paper has 36 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
2. Marks are indicated against each question.
3. This question paper consists of two parts i.e. Part I and Part II. Part I of the question
paper contains Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) from serial number 1 to 16 of 1
mark each. These sixteen questions of Part I are to be answered on a separate
sheet provided. This part has to be completed in first 30 minutes only and the
answer sheet must be handed over to the invigilator before starting Part II.
4. In Part II of the question paper, there are twenty questions from serial no. 17 to 36
which are to be attempted in 2 hours and 30 minutes. This part should be attempted
only after the stipulated time given for Part I.
5. Questions from serial number 17 to 32 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these
questions should not exceed 80 words each.
6. Questions from serial number 33 to 35 are 4 marks questions. Answers of these
questions should not exceed 100 words each.
7. Question number 36 is a map question of 4 marks from Geography only. After
completion, attach the map inside your answer book.

Q1. When leg before law was implemented in India?

(a) 1700
(b) 1721
(c) 1774
(d) 1800

OR

The Knickerbrokers was introduced by

a) Amelia Bloomers

b) Lucy stone

c) Mrs. Stanton

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d) None of these

Q2. Which of the following was worn by the women in the girls of the Victorian
period.

a) Rationals

b) Busk

c) Skirts

d) Trousers

OR

The first Indian community to play cricket is

a) The Muslims

b) The Jews

c) The Zoroastrians

d) The Bhotiyas

Q3. Which of the following is not a tributary of River Indus

a) Nubra

b) Hunza

c) Lohit

d) All of these

Q4. ITCZ stands for

a) Inter Temperate Convergence Zone

b) Interior Tropical Converge Zone

c) Inter Tropical Converging Zone

d) None of the above

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Q5. According to ferrels law the winds turn in which direction in northern plan? 1
(a) Right
(b) Left
(c) South
(d) North

Q6. Which of the following does not belong to the Alpine vegetation

a) Silver Fir

b) Junipers

c) Pines

d) Oaks

Q7. India is divided in to how many constituencies? 1

(a) 543
(b) 423
(c) 79
(d) 500

Q.8. Which one of the following institutions is responsible for implementing the
law made by the Parliament?
(a) The President of India;
(b) The Union Executive;
(c) Ther Supreme Court of India;
(d) The Speaker of Lok Sabha.

Q9. Which of the following is nominated or appointed by the president.

a) The Chief Justice of India

b) The Election Commissioners

c) The ambassadors

d) All of the above

Q10. Which of the following is not a Fundamental Right

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a) Right to Equality

b) Right to Work

c) Right to Freedom

d) Cultural and Educational Right

Q11) Which of the following is not true about democracy

a) Democracy is a form of Government

b) Democracy involves many people in decision making

c) Democracy ensures freedom of media

d) Democracy is more concerned about the interest of the majority

Q12) Which of the following is not true about unemployment

a) Seasonal and disguised are the 2 kinds of unemployment

b) Unemployment tends to increase economic overload

c) Unemployment occours only when the population density is low

d) Increasing unemployment is a sigh of depressed economy

Q.13) Which one of the following is the main aim of Prime Minister Rozgar Yojna
(PMRY)?
(a) To create self employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth
in rural areas and small towns;
(b) To provide Govt. jobs to the educated people of towns and cities;
(c) To provide government jobs to the uneducated people of the towns and
cities;
(d) None of the above

Q14. According to the report of 2001 which Country stood first in poverty? 1
(a) Indonesia
(b) Bangladesh
(c) Pakistan
(d) Nigeria

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Q15. Which of the following is the mitigation strategy for controlling landslide

a) Retaining wall

b) Increasing vegetation cover

c) Surface drainage control

d) All of the above

16. The main cause of epidemic is the presence of

a) Mushroom

b) Mould

c) pathogen

d) chemical

Q17. Write a note on the Reign of Terror. What did it ultimately lead to?

OR

Explain the role of Lenin in Russian revolution.

OR

Why do you think that the Treaty Of Versailles had a humiliating impact
on Germany?

Q18. What is the Directorate Rule ? Why did it fail in France?

OR

What were the impacts of First World War on 1917 Russian revolution?

OR

Describe Hitler’s policy towards the Jews.

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19. How did the Forest Acts affect the lives of the people ?

OR

Who were the Dhangars? What do you know about their seasonal
movement

OR

Why Why were the farmers and Landlords of England greatly alarmed

Q20. What were the major causes of deforestation during the Colonial Rule

OR

Why did pastoralism decline during the colonial rule

OR

Why were the Indian cultivators unwilling to turn their land over to grow
poppy for making opium? Explain any three reasons

Q21. Differentiate between the Himalayan and the peninsular river and give
examples.

Q22. Study the following chart and answer the following

Chart is on pg 40

a) What is the highest and the lowest temperature recorded in Delhi?

b) Why do you think that the annual rangr of temperature is so high?

c) Which three months receive heavy rainfall in Delhi ?

Q23. Write a note on the vegetation and wildlife of the tropical rain forest.

Q24. Human occupations are classified into three categories. Name each
category
with suitable examples of occupations

Q25. When was the Indian Constitution put to effect? State the importance of
the constitution
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Q26.State the powers and functions of the Election Commission ?

Q27. Name the Fundamental Rights guaranteed to the Indian citizens? Define
Begar and Traffic as two ways of exploitation.

Q28. What is NREGA ? State its features.

Q29. What is Food Security? What do you know about Annapurna Scheme?

Q30. Define PAPS? Name the three food intervention programmes introduced by
NSSO.

Q31. Name the two countries where earthquake is a regular phonomenon. Write
the importance of engineered structures in those areas.

Q32. State the various causes of Fire

Q33. How did the various Indian Communities react to the Western dress.

OR

Test cricket is a unique game in many ways .In which ways it is different
from other team

games. How are the peculiarities of test cricket shaped by its historical
beginnings at a village

game?

Q34. Our Constitution gives the Rajya Sabha some special powers over the
states. But Loksabha

exercises supreme power how?

Q35. What do you understand by people as a resource? State the factors which
contribute to a

good population.

Q36. Show the following on the map of India

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Name : Miss Moumita

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