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First Summative Assessment – 2013

Science

Class– IX.

Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 90

Instruction: Question numbers 1 to 3 in Section-A carries 1 mark.

Question numbers 4 to 7 in Section-A carries 2 marks.

Question numbers 8 to 19 in Section-A carries 3 marks.

Question numbers 20 to 24 in Section-A carries 5 marks.

Question numbers 25 to 42 in Section-B carries 1 mark.

All questions are compulsory.

The question paper comprises of two sections A and B. You are to attempt both the
sections.
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Section A

1. Arrange the following in the increasing order of forces of attraction between their
respective constituent particles.
Carbon dioxide, water, sugar.
2. Lysosomes are known as the suicidal bag of a cell. Give a reason to justify the statement.
3. Why do we get pushed to one side when a motor car travelling at a high speed takes a
sharp turn?
4. Is milk a homogeneous or heterogeneous mixture? Give two of its characteristic
properties.
5. List four functions of blood.
6. Mention 2 ways by which pests attack plants.
7. State the universal law of gravitation and express it mathematically.
8. What is organic farming? How is it useful over fertilizers and pesticides?
9. Write one point of difference between tube well and dug well. How is river lift systems
adopted to supply water to the agricultural land?
10. Justify the following statements with reason:
a. A gas exerts pressure on the walls of the container.
b. Water at 1000C produces less severe burns than steam at 1000C.
c. We feel cold when we take a piece of ice in our palm?
11. Describe an activity with labeled diagram to obtain dye from blue ink. Name the
component which gets evaporated?
12. Draw a neat diagram of a neuron and label four parts.
13. (a)List two roles of the nucleus of a cell.

(b) Name two substances stored in the vacuoles of plant cell.

14. Name and differentiate the types of meristematic tissues on the basis of their function.

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15. A body travels along three different paths as show in the following figures.

3.5m
20m

40m

30m

Find the ratio of displacement to distance in each case, if A and B are the initial and final
positions respectively in all three cases.
16. (a) State the law of inertia.
(b) When a carpet is beaten with a stick, dust comes out of it. Explain why?
(c) When a moving bus suddenly stops, passengers are thrown forward. Explain why?
17. A bullet of mass 10g travelling horizontally with a velocity of 130 ms-1 strikes a
stationary wooden block and comes to rest in 0.03 s. calculate the distance of penetration
of the bullet into the block. Also calculate the magnitude of force by wooden block on the
bullet.
18. Find the force exerted by the earth on the sun. Given the mass of the earth = 6 * 1024Kg,
mass of the sun = 2 * 1030 Kg and the average distance between them is 1.5 * 108 Km.
19. (a) Two bodies A and B moving with momenta 10 Kg ms-1 and 5 Kg ms-1 respectively
along the same direction collide. Just after the collision the momentum of A is 6 Kg ms -1,
find the momentum of B.

(b) Write three examples of Newton’s third law of motion.

20. (a) Give two advantages and two disadvantages of using fertilizers. What is Vermi-
compost?
(b) Differentiate between micro and macro nutrients and give one example of each.

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21. (a) Convert the following temperatures to the Celsius scale.

(i)329 K (ii) 473

(b) Define latent heat of fusion and melting point. Melting point of a substance in ‘X’

550C while that of ‘Y’ is 850C. Explain what it indicates about the strength of

force of attraction between particles of the two?

(c) Explain why the temperature remains constant during the change of state of matter.

22. (a) Define crystallization. State the purpose for which technique of crystallization is used.

(b) Crystallization is better technique than simple evaporation. Give reasons in its

support.

(c) Calculate the concentration of a solution which contains 25 g of salt dissolved in

150 g of water.

23. (a) Draw distance time graph for a body

i. At rest.
ii. In uniform motion.
iii. In non-uniform motion.

(b) Can distance time graph be parallel to the distance axis? Justify your answer.

24. Explain
a. Newton’s third law of motion with two examples.
b. A girl of mass 50 Kg jumps with a horizontal velocity of 5 ms-1 into a stationary
cart with frictionless wheels. The mass of the cart is 5 Kg. What is her velocity as
the cart starts moving? Assume that there is no external unbalanced force acting
in horizontal direction.

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SECTION - B

25. Which of the following food sample would give a positive iodine test?
a. Sugars
b. Pulses
c. Potato
d. Boiled egg
26. A sample food extract when mixed with Dil. HCl turn pink in color. The food extract is
adulterated with
a. Malachite green
b. Metanil yellow
c. Turmeric
d. potassium dichromate
27. Which among the following solutions shows Tyndall effect?
a. Muddy water.
b. Cloud.
c. Saw dust in water.
d. Chalk powder in water.
28. Two students A and B prepared sodium sulphate solution and barium chloride solution
respectively. They mixed both the solutions. Write the correct observation.
a. Reaction is double displacement as well as precipitation reaction.
b. Reaction is double displacement as well as redox reaction.
c. Clear solution of NaCl and BaSO4 is obtained.
d. Both a and c are correct.
29. Which of the following is true about tincture of iodine.
a. Is an example for a solution.
b. Has iodine as the solute and alcohol as the solvent.
c. Only b is true
d. Both a and b are true.

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30. When Zinc granules are added to dilute sulphuric acid

a. A gas is evolved and a lighted matchstick brought near it goes out with a pop
sound.
b. Effervescence is produced.
c. A yellow precipitate is formed.
d. None of the above.
31. Rohit was asked by her science teacher to prepare a solution. She dissolved the solute in
water but forgot to record its name. What may be the correct name of the solute?
a. Egg albumin
b. Sulphur powder
c. Barium sulphate
d. Alum
32. Which one will not be observed when a magnet is moved repeatedly through a mixture of
iron fillings and sulphur powder kept in a tray:
a. Iron filings will cling to the magnet
b. A black mass of FeS will be produced.
c. Sulphur powder will be left in the tray
d. Sulphur powder will dissolve in CS2
33. When a burning magnesium ribbon is introduced in a gas jar containing oxygen, it will
burn with:
a. A reddish flame
b. A pale yellow flame
c. A golden yellow flame
d. A dazzling white flame
34. Mohan heated a mixture of sulphur and iron fillings in a china dish till a grey black
product was formed. On adding carbon di-sulphide and stirring the contents he observed
that:
a. Particles of sulphur dissolve.
b. Particles of iron dissolve.
c. Grey black product dissolves
d. No change takes place

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35. Akshayobserved an onion peel under the microscope. The peel was stained and it
appeared pink in color. The stain used is
a. Glycerine
b. Methyl orange
c. Iodine
d. Safranine
36. Which of the following process is involved in the swelling of raisins when place in water.
a. Diffusion.
b. Imbibition.
c. Plasmolysis.
d. All the above.
37. To observe cells in an onion peel, the students prepared the slide by mounting on it.
a. Crushed pulp of onion.
b. Dry scale leaf.
c. Green leaf on an onion.
d. Thin layer of onion.
38. Some students observed a permanent slide of striated muscles. The cells appeared to be:
a. Cylindrical
b. Discoidal
c. Spindle shape
d. Square shape
39. Two slides of plant tissues are focused under two microscopes. How can Anamika
confirm the slides of sclerenchyma?
a. By the position of vacuoles in cells.
b. By the size of cells.
c. By the thickness of cell wall of cells.
d. By the presence of nucleus in cells.

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40. In the determination of percentage of water absorbed by raisins for 5g raisins the amount
of water required for soaking is nearly.
a. 5 ml.
b. 10 ml
c. 100 ml
d. Any amount in which these are completely immersed.
41. A student pulled a rectangular wooden box of dimension 10 * 8 * 5 cm3 with the spring
balance by keeping its different faces on the table. Spring balance will show:
a. Same reading in all the cases.
b. Maximum reading when it is placed with face of dimensions (10 cm * 8 cm) on
the table.
c. Maximum reading when it is placed with face of dimension (8 cm * 5 cm) on the
table
d. Maximum dimension when it is placed with face of dimension (5 cm * 10 cm) on
the table.
42. To move a wooden block ‘A’ placed on a horizontal surface a student uses a spring
balance and measures the minimum required force as F1. Now he keeps one more block
‘B’ over it and then measures the minimum required force as F2. The relation between
F1and F2 is :
a. F1> F2
b. F2> F1
c. F1 = F2
d. It depends upon which face ‘A’ is placed on the table.

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