MID TERM EXAMINATION (2021- 2022)

Grade: V Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Time: 3 HOURS Max. Marks:80

General Instructions:
i. Question paper comprises five Sections – A, B, C, D and E. There are 32 questions in the
question paper. All questions are compulsory.
ii. Section A – Question no. 1 to 16 are Objective Type Questions of 1 mark each.
iii. Section B – Question no. 17 to 22 are short answer type questions, carrying 3 marks each.
Answer to each question should not exceed 80 words.
iv. Section C – Question no. 23 to 26 are source based questions, carrying 4 marks each.
v. Section D – Question no. 27 to 31 are long answer type questions, carrying 5 marks each.
Answer to each question should not exceed 120 words.
vi. Section E – Question no. 32 carries 5 marks
vii. There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been
provided in few questions. Only one of the choices in such questions have to be attempted.
viii. In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and question,
wherever necessary.

Section A
Section A
(1×16=16)
1. Differentiate between Climate and Weather. (1)
2. The Indian soldier who started the revolt against the British was ______. (1)

(a) Tantia Tope (b) Nana Saheb (c) Mangal Pandey (d ) Rani Lakshmi Bhai

3. What is meant by axis? (1)

4. If a place has a latitude of 15º N, is it in the Northern hemisphere. (1)
5. What was the prime objective of East India Company? (1)
6. The amount of water vapour in the air_____________. (1)
7. On a map, 1000km is shown in 1cm. the scale of the map is (1)

(a) 1000 (b) 100 (c) 1 (d) 1

kilometer:1 kilometer:1 Centimeter Centimeter
centimeter centimeter : 1000 : 1003.
kilometer kilometer
8. How many types of motions does the earth have? (1)
9. Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the Newspaper ______. (1)
10. Who was made the Nawab of Bengal after the Battle of Plassey? (1)
11. What is the Prime Meridian?
12. What is a map? (1)
13. True or False
On his first trip to India, Vasco da Gama landed in the city of Calcutta. (1)
14. The ration of distance on a map to actual distance is known as the _____________of
the map. (1)
15. State True or false
When Northern Hemisphere has da, the Southern Hemisphere has Night. (1)
16. The seasons are caused by
(a) Rotation of (b) Revolution (c) Rotation of (d) Revolution
the earth of the earth the Sun of Sun
around the around the
sun Earth

Section B
(3×6=18)
17. What does these symbols represent?
(a)
(b) PO
(c) - - - - - - - -. (3)
18. What was the difference between the moderates and the radicals? (3)
19. Name 3 European countries that started trade with India? (3)
20. Why are latitudes and longitudes drawn on the globe? (3)
21. How is direction usually shown in maps? (3)
22. Why do the seasons repeat year after year? (3)

Section C
(4×4=16)

23.
a) What does light blue colour and dark blue colour indicate? (4)
b) What does Dark Brown and green colour indicate?
24.
State the important latitudes with its degrees. (4)

25.

(a) Whom does the picture refer to? (4)

(b) What did he declare?
26. What is Swadeshi Movement? (4)
 Section D
(5×5=25)

27. Why does Mumbai have a moderate summer while Delhi has an extremely hot
summer? (5)
28. Why did the British think of partitioning Bengal? (5)
29. A globe is the accurate way to represent the earth. However, we generally use a map
rather than a globe to study the earth. Why is this? (5)
30. During the Swadeshi Movement people boycotted British goods. Do you think we
should do the same today and boycott all foreign goods? (5)
31. Describe the general climate of each Zone. (5)

Section E
(5×1=5)
32. Draw the Zones and latitudes with its degrees

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