5.
Mention the communities termed as
SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER
2021-22
TERM II
CLASS IX
SOCIAL SCIENCE - CODE 087
Time Allowed: 2 Hours
Maximum Marks: 40
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General Instructions:
i.. All questions are compulsory.
ii.Question no. 1 to 5 are very short
answer type questions of 2 marks each.
Answer to each question should not
exceed 40 words.
iii.Question no. 6 to 8 are short answer
type questions, carrying 3 marks each.
Answer to each question should not
exceed 80 words.
iv.Question no. 9 and 10 are long
answer type questions, carrying 5
marks each. Answer to each question
should not exceed 120 words.
v. Question no. 11 and 12 are Case
Based questions.
vi. Question no. 13 is map based,
carrying 3 marks with two parts, 13.1
from History (1 mark) and 13.2 from
Geography (2 marks).
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1. Explain the main demands of “April
Theses”. 2 higher growth rates have helped
2. Why are most of the Peninsular river
draining into the Bay of Bengal? Give two
reasons. Name two rivers draining into the
Arabian Sea. 2 and poverty reduction. Economic growth
3. Describe the need for political
institutions in India. 2 resources needed to invest in human
4. Explain any two social indicators
through which poverty is looked upon. 2
‘desirables’ and ‘undesirables’ by the
Nazis. 2
6. Mention any four causes of poverty in
India 3
Or
Describe how the poverty line is
estimated in India.
7.Explain any three conditions which
make the election process more
democratic. 3
8.What do you understand by the
‘Retreating of the Monsoon’? When does
it occur? 3
9. Mention five consequences of Nazism
in Germany. 5
10. Prime Minister is the head of the
government.” Justify the statement. 5
11. Read the given text and answer the
following questions:
Removal of poverty has been one
of the major objectives of Indian
developmental strategy. The current anti-
poverty strategy of the government is
based broadly on two planks (1)
promotion of economic growth (2)
targeted anti-poverty programmes.
Over a period of thirty years lasting
up to the early eighties, there were little
per capita income growth and not much
reduction in poverty. Official poverty
estimates which were about 45 per cent in
the early 1950s remained the same even
in the early eighties. Since the eighties,
India’s economic growth has been one of
the fastest in the world. The growth rate
jumped from the average of about 3.5 per
cent a year in the 1970s to about 6 per
cent during the 1980s and 1990s. The
significantly in the reduction of poverty.
Therefore, it is becoming clear that there
is a strong link between economic growth
widens opportunities and provides the
development. This also encourages
people to send their children, including the
girl child, to schools in the hope of getting
better economic returns from investing in
education. However, the poor may not be
able to take direct advantage from the
opportunities created by economic growth.
Moreover, growth in the agriculture sector
is much below expectations. This has a
direct bearing on poverty as a large
number of poor people live in villages and
are dependent on agriculture.
11.1 What is per Capita income? 1 decreasing?
11.2 What was the India’s economic
growth during the 1980s and 1990s ? 1
11.3 Name any one anti poverty
programme launched by the
government? 2
animals found are lion, tiger, pig, deer and
elephant. A huge variety of birds, lizards,
snakes and tortoises are also found here
12.1 The dry deciduous forests are found
in areas having rainfall between _______ .
1
12.2 Name any two of the important
species of Moist Deciduous Forests. 1
12.3 Why do dry forests area is
2
13. 13.1 On the given outline map of
world locate, the countries that were
central powers in the First World War 1

12. Read the given text and answer the

following questions:

These are the most widespread

forests of India. They are also called the
monsoon forests and spread over the
region receiving rainfall between 200 cm
and 70 cm. Trees of this forest type shed
their leaves for about six to eight weeks in
dry summer. On the basis of the
availability of water, these forests are
further divided into moist and dry
deciduous. The former is found in areas
receiving rainfall between 200 and 100 13.2 Locate and label the following items
cm. These forests exist, therefore, mostly on the given map(Any two) 2
in the eastern part of the country — 1 The strait separating Sri Lanka and
northeastern states, along the foothills of India
the Himalayas, Jharkhand, West Odisha 2 Salt water lake in Kerala
and Chhattisgarh, and on the eastern 3 Largest fresh water lake in India
slopes of the Western Ghats. Teak is the 4 A group of islands lying East of the
most dominant species of this forest. mainland of India
Bamboos, sal, shisham, sandalwood, 5 Islands group lying close to Malabar
khair, kusum, arjun and mulberry are coast and Kerala
other commercially important species.
The dry deciduous forests are
found in areas having rainfall between 100
cm and 70 cm. These forests are found in
the rainier parts of the Peninsular plateau
and the plains of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
There are open stretches, in which teak,
sal, peepal and neem grow. A large part
of this region has been cleared for
cultivation and some parts are used for
grazing. In these forests, the common

Answer:
1. In April 1917, the Bolshevik leader
Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia from his
exile. He and the Bolsheviks had opposed
the war since 1914. Now he felt it was
time for soviets to take over power. He put
three demands which were known as
Lenin’s April Theses.
The three demands were :
(a) He declared that the war to be ended
(b) Land to be transferred to the peasants
(c) The banks to be nationalized.
2. Most of the Peninsular rivers drain into
the Bay of Bengal because of the
following reasons:
(a) The Eastern Ghats are lower than the
Western Ghats and are also
discontinuous thus making it easier for
the rivers to reach the Bay of Bengal.
(b) The Deccan Plateau has a gentle
slope towards the east, thus the rivers
drain towards the east.
Two rivers draining into the Arabian Sea
are the Narmada and the Tapi.
3. I) The government is responsible
for ensuring security to the citizens and
providing education and health facilities to
all.
II) It collects taxes and spends
money on administration, defence and
developmental programmes.
III) It formulates and implements
several welfare schemes.
Political institutions are needed to
attend to all these tasks.
4. Poverty today is looked upon through
social indicators like illiteracy level, lack of
access to healthcare, lack of job
opportunities etc.:-
i) People are poor because they are
illiterate and they are illiterate
because they are poor.
ii) Poverty is a situation where sick
people cannot afford treatment, i.e.,
they lack access to healthcare.
5. a) The ‘desirables’ included blond, blue-
eyed, Nordic German Aryans. He wanted
a society of pure and healthy Nordic
Aryans.
b)The ‘undesirables’ included many
gypsies, blacks, Jews remained the worst
sufferers. Even those ‘ Germans who
were seen as impure or abnormal had no
right to live.
c) Under the Euthanasia Programme
they were condemned to death. Even
Germans who were mentally and
physically unfit were put to death.
6. a) Low level of economic development
under the British rule in India.
b) Decline of Indian handicrafts
industry which led to unemployment,
poverty and misery which were
responsible for the low rate of income
growth.
c) Social factors like caste system,
religious faiths and beliefs also kept
certain section of people in society in
poverty.
d) High growth rate of population led to
a very low per capita income in the
country.
Or
In India, for determining the poverty line,
the accepted average calorie requirement
is 2,400 calories per person per day in
rural areas and 2,100 calories per person
per day in urban areas. In the year
 2011-12, the poverty line for a person
was fixed at ? 816 per month for the rural
areas and ? 1,000 for the urban areas.
7. a) One vote, one value: To
choose/elect the representative every one
must have one note with equal value. This
is to avoid any type of conflicting situation.
b) Regular Election: There should be
regular elections in every democratic
country so that people have their choice
at regular intervals.
c) Free and Fair Election: In order to
ensure a fair chance to the people there
should be free and fair election in every
democratic country.
d) Political competition: In order to have
democratic election parties, candidates
should be free to contest elections and
should offer some real choice to the
voters.
8. a) Withdrawal of the monsoon from the
country is known as the retreating of the
monsoon.
(b) The withdrawal is a gradual process.
In September the monsoon withdraws
from the north western states and by
October from the northern half of the
peninsular.
(c) The monsoon finally withdraws from
the country by early December.
9. The consequences of Nazism in
Germany were:
(a) Weimar Republic came to an end.
Under Nazism, Germany became a
dictatorial state, democracy was
destroyed.
(b) Hitler assigned the responsibility of
economic recovery to the economist
Hjalmar Schacht. He aimed at full
production and full employment through
state-funded work-creation programme.
This project produced the famous German
highways and peoples car Volkswagen.
(c) In foreign policy, Germany left the
League of Nations in 1933, reoccupied
Rhineland in 1936, annexed Austria in
1938. He then took Sudentenland, a part
of Czechoslovakia and finally took the
whole country.
(d) Special surveillance and security
forces were created to control and order
society in ways Nazi wanted.
(e) He believed in the survival of the fittest
and established an exclusive racial
community of pure Aryans.
10. Prime Minister is the head of the
government. The statement can be
justified in the following ways:
a) He leads the majority party in the
Parliament.
b)He summons and presides over
the meetings of the cabinet.
c) All the decisions by his cabinet
are taken under his leadership,
consent and authority.
d) He acts as an adviser to the
president over the appointment of
his ministers, judges of Supreme
Court and high courts.
e) He is free to choose his ministers
and can change their portfolios.
11.1 Total income is divided by the total
population of the country is termed as per
capita income.
11.2 6%
11.3. MNERGA
12.1 100 cm and 70 cm
12.2 Teak, bamboos, sal, shisham,
sandalwood, khair, kusum, aijun and
mulberry are some of the important
species of Moist Deciduous Forests.
12.3 A large part of this region has been
cleared for cultivation and some parts are
used for grazing.
13.1
13.2