CBSE Class 10

Science Board Exam 2018

Important Questions
1 Mark Questions:

1. When a current carrying conductor is kept in a magnetic held, state the position when
maximum force acts on it.

2. The atomic numbers of three elements A, B and C are 12, 18 and 20 respectively. State, giving
reason, which two elements will show similar properties.

3. How will you test for the gas which is liberated when hydrochloric acid reacts with an active
metal?

4. Define Puberty.

5. No two individuals are absolutely alike in a population. Why?

6. Name two tissues which provide control and coordination in animals

7. Write the electron dot structure of ethane molecule, C2H6.

8. A black surface absorbs more heat radiations as compared to a white surface under identical
conditions. List two solar devices which make use of this property in their design.

9. Name two properties of elements which increase along a group?

10. What are the various steps in a food chain called?

11. A ray of light passing through the centre of curvature of concave minor gets reflected along
the same path. Why?

12. "A concave mirror of focal length 15 cm can form a magnified, erect as well as inverted
image of an object placed in front of it." Justify this statement stating the position of the object
with respect to the pole of the mirror in both the cases for obtaining the images.

2 Marks Questions:

1. List any four characteristics of a good fuel.

2. Why some substances burn with a flame while as some burn without a flame?

3. State difference between the wire used in the element of an electric heater and in a fuse wire.

4. Name one sexually transmitted disease each caused due to bacterial infection and viral
infection.
5. Classify the following salts as acidic, basic or neutral:
(i) NaCl (ii) Na2SO4
(iii) CaCl2 (iv) K2CO3

6. What is galvanisation. What purpose is served by it?

7. How do you calculate the possible valency of an element from the electronic configuration of
its atoms?

8. Draw the diagram of an open stomatal pore of a leaf and label the chloroplast and guard cells
on it.

9. Why cake or bread swells on adding baking powder? Write chemical equation.

10. "Energy flow in a food chain is unidirectional" Justify this statement.

11. What is the main constituent of biogas? How is biogas obtained from biomass?

12. What is the effect of DNA copying, which is not perfectly accurate, on the reproduction
process?

3 Marks Questions:

1. Explain the path from the stimulus to the response, for a receiving tennis player?

2. (a) Explain 10% Law in reference to the flow of energy across various Trophic Levels.
(b) Find out the amount of Energy available to Eagles in a Food Chain consisting of Carrots -
rabbit - snake – eagle. Assume 1, 000 J of energy is available to Carrot plants from the Sun.

3. (a) Why do we classify elements?

(b) What are the two criteria used in the development of Modern Periodic Table?

(c) What is meant by periodicity in properties of elements with reference to the periodic table?

4. Give reasons for the following:

(a) Arteries are thick walled.

(b) Blood goes only once in one cycle through the heart in fishes.

(c) Plants have low energy needs.

5. How are we able to see distant and near by objects clearly? Which part of eye helps in
changing curvature of lens? Why no image is formed at blind spot?

6. (a) What are the functions performed by the testis in human beings?
(b) Why do testes in mammals descend into scrotum?

7. Explain the three pathways of breakdown of glucose in living organisms.

8. (a) Explain the term “rancidity”. Name and explain the type of chemical reactions responsible
for causing rancidity.

(b)Write three methods for preventing rancidity of food.

9. The resistance of a wire of 0.01 cm radius is 10. If the resistivity of the material of the wire
is 50 × 10−8 ohm meter, find the length of the wire.

10. State any three advantages of using charcoal over wood?

11. All the variations in a species do not have equal chances of survival. Why?

12. What are living fossils? Give two examples of living fossils?

5 Marks Questions:

1. Find out the following in the electric circuit given in the following figure:
(a) Effective resistance of two 8  resistors in the combination
(b) Current flowing through 4  resistor
(c) Potential difference across 4  resistance
(d) Power dissipated in 4  resistor
(e) Difference in ammeter readings, if any

2. (a) List the parts of the human eye that control the amount of light entering into it. Explain
how they perform this function.

(b) Write the function of retina in human eye.

(c) Do you know that the corneal-impairment can be cured by replacing the defective cornea
with the cornea of the donated eye? How and why should we organise groups to motivate the
community members to donate their eyes after death?

3. (a) How does a bar magnet differ from an electromagnet.

(b) What type of core should be put inside a current-carrying solenoid to make an electromagnet?
(c) How can you find out the direction of the magnetic field produced by a current-carrying
conductor?

4. (a) State the Joule’s laws of heating and express these in the form of a mathematical equation.

(b) 80 J of heat is produced each second when current is passed through a 5Ω resistance. Find the
potential difference across the resistor.

5. Three incandescent bulbs of 100 W each are connected in series in an electric circuit. In
another circuit another set of three bulbs of the same wattage are connected in parallel to the
same source.
(a) Will the bulb in the two circuits glow with the same brightness? Justify your answer.

(b) Now let one bulb in both the circuits get fused. Will the rest of the bulbs continue to glow in
each circuit? Give reason.

6. (a) What is the required condition to make a glass lens placed in a transparent liquid invisible?

(b) Describe and illustrate with a diagram, how we should arrange two converging lenses so that
a parallel beam of light entering one lens emerges as a parallel beam after passing through the
second lens.
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(c) A convex mirror of focal length 25 cm forms image of magnification for one position of
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the object. The object is shifted by cm towards the mirror. By what distance and what
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direction the image will move?

7. (i) How will you convert a given set of resistors so that the equivalent resistance is increased?
Give reason for your answer.
(ii) In the given circuit diagram, calculate:
(a) the value of current through each resistor
(b) the total current in the circuit
(c) the total effective resistance of the circuit.
8. (a) An organic compound A with molecular formula C2H4O2 on reaction with Sodium metal
Na releases a gas B which readily catches fire. A on reacting with Ethanol in the presence of
concentrated Sulphuric acid gives a sweet smelling substance C used in making perfumes.
Write a balanced chemical equation to represent these two reactions and identify the
compounds A, B and C.
(b) Differentiate between metals and non metals?

9. (a) Draw a sectional view of human female reproductive system and label the part where:
(i) Eggs develop.
(ii) Fertilisation takes place.
(iii) Fertilised egg gets implanted.

(b) Describe, in brief, the changes the uterus undergoes

(i) To receive the zygote.
(ii) If zygote is not formed.

10. (a) Why are bacteria and fungi called decomposers? What is the role of decomposers in the
ecosystem?

(b) Explain the phenomenon of ‘biological magnification.’ How does it affect organisms
belonging to different trophic levels?

11. (a) Mention the pH range within which our body works. Explain how antacids
give relief from acidity. Write the name of one such antacid.
(b) Fresh milk has a pH of 6. How does the pH will change as it turns to curd? Explain your
answer.
(c) A milkman adds a very small amount of baking soda to fresh milk. Why does this milk take a
longer time to set as curd?
(d) Mention the nature of toothpastes. How do they prevent tooth decay?

12. A concave lens has focal length of 20 cm. At what distance from the lens a 5 cm tall object
be placed so that it forms an image at 15 cm from the lens? Also calculate the size of the position
of the image formed.
Practical Based Questions:

1. A student adds a spoon full of powdered sodium hydrogen carbonate to a flask containing
ethanoic acid. List two main observations that he/she must note in his/her notebook about the
reaction that takes place. Also, write chemical equation for the reaction.

2. Baking soda solution when reacted with ethanoic acid gives a brisk effervescence. What is the
reason behind this observation? Write the chemical equation for the reaction involved here.

3. A student is observing a permanent slide showing, sequentially, the different stages of asexual
reproduction taking place in yeast. Name this process and draw diagrams of what he observes in
a proper sequence.

4. Mention the essential material (chemicals) to prepare soap in the laboratory. Describe in brief
the test of determining the nature (acidic/alkaline) of the reaction mixture of saponification
reaction.

5. When you add sodium hydrogen carbonate to acetic acid in a test tube, a gas liberates
immediately with brisk effervescence. Name this gas. Describe the method of testing this gas.
6. A student is to conduct an experiment to show CO2 is released during respiration. List two
precautions that he/she must take for obtaining correct observation.

7. An object of height 2.5 cm is placed at a distance of 15 cm from the optical centre 'O' of a
convex lens of focal length 10 cm. Draw a ray diagram to find the position and size of the image
formed. Mark the optical centre 'O', principal focus F and height of the image on the diagram.
8. What happens when ethanol is heated with acidified potassium dichromate solution? Write the
chemical equation.

9. Write two precautions to be taken while identifying different parts of an embryo of a dicot
seed.

10. An incomplete ray diagram is shown below where the image A'B' for an object AB (placed
somewhere in front of lens) is formed after refraction through the convex lens.

Observe the above and use the given information to fill in the following blanks :

(i) The object AB would have been placed _________ .

(ii) Size of the object would have been _________ than the size of image.

11. Write the methods of reproduction in hydra plant?

12. A student focuses the image of a candle flame, placed at about 2 m from a convex lens of
focal length 10 cm, on a screen. After that he moves gradually the flame towards the lens and
each time focuses its image on the screen.
(a) In which direction does he move the lens to focus the flame on the screen?
(b) What happens to the size of the image of the flame formed on the screen?
(c) What difference is seen in the intensity (brightness) of the image of the flame on the screen?
(d) What is seen on the screen when the flame is very close (at about 5 cm) to the lens?