CBSE Class 10 Science

Practice Paper
Term 2 Exam 2022
Max. Marks:40
Time allowed: 2 hours
General Instructions:
i) All questions are compulsory.
ii) The question paper has three sections and 15 questions. All questions are
compulsory.
iii) Section–A has 7 questions of 2 marks each; Section–B has 6 questions of 3 marks
each; and Section–C has 2 case-based questions of 4 marks each.
iv) Internal choices have been provided in some questions. A student has to attempt
only one of the alternatives in such questions.
SECTION - A
1.Study the table given below carefully and answer the questions.

(a) Which element is a nonmetal with valency 1?

(b) Which element makes only covalent bond?
(c) Which element has the largest atomic radius?
(d) Write the electronic configuration of the element C
2.How does binary fission differ from multiple fission? Give one difference between
the binary fission in amoeba and leishmania?
3.Woman had undergone surgical method for preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Does this protect her from getting sexually transmitted diseases? Write any other
two contraceptive methods.
4.Write any two limitations of Mendeleev’s periodic table and how these defects are
rectified in Modern periodic table?
5.Explain the mechanism by which the chromosome number is maintained constant
in human beings?
OR
With the help of suitable example, explain characters may be inherited, but may not
be expressed always.
6.A coil of insulated copper wire is connected to a galvanometer. What will happen if
a bar magnet is
(a) pushed into the coil?
(b) withdrawn from inside the coil?
Give reason also.
OR
Name any 2 factors on which the strength of the magnetic field produced by a
solenoid depends? How does it depend on these factors?
7.Explain with the help of an example, why the number of trophic levels in a food
chain is limited?
OR
A food chain consists of fish, larvae, phytoplankton and birds. The level of pesticides
in water in which these organisms live is high.
(a) Which organism will have the maximum amount of pesticides accumulated
through the food chain and what is this process known as?
(b) Write the food chain comprising all the organisms mentioned above.
SECTION - B

8. Calcium is an element with atomic number 20. Answer the following stating
reasons.
(a) Is calcium a metal or non-metal?
(b) Will its atomic radius be larger or smaller than that of potassium with atomic
number 19?
(c) Write the formula of its oxide.
9. What is homologous series? List its any two characteristics. Write the name and
formulae of the next higher homologue of HCOOH.
OR
What are structural isomers? Write down the possible isomers of butane.
10. Name the plant Mendel used for his experiments. What type of progeny was
obtained by Mendel in F1 and F2 generations when he crossed the tall and short
plants? Write the ratio he obtained in F2 generation plants.
11. (a) An electric bulb is rated at 200 V and 100 W. What is its resistance?
(b) Calculate the energy consumed by 3 such bulbs if they glow for 10 hours for the
month of November.
(c) Calculate the total cost if the rate is Rs 6.50 per unit.
12. Show how would you join three resistors, each of resistance 9 Ω so that the
equivalent resistance of the combination is:
(i) 13.5 Ω
(ii) 6 Ω?
Represent the above combinations in a circuit diagram.
OR
The values of current (I) flowing through a given resistor of resistance (R) for the
corresponding values of potential difference (V) across the resistor are as given
below.

(a) Plot a graph between current(I) and potential difference (V).

(b)Determine the resistance of the resistor.
13. List two main causes of the pollution of water of the river Ganga. State how
pollution of the river water proves harmful for the health of people? What steps
can be taken to solve this issue?
SECTION - C
This section has 2 case-based questions (14 and 15). Each case is followed by 3 sub-
questions (a, b and c. Parts a and b are compulsory. However, an internal choice has
been provided in part c.
14. Inheritance from one generation to the next provides a common body design
with subtle changes. While some of these differences will be unique, others will be
inherited from their respective parents who were different from each other.
Selection of variants by environmental factors forms the basis for evolutionary
processes.
(a) If a trait A exists in 10% of a population of an asexually reproducing species
and a trait B exists in 60% of the same population, which trait is likely to have
arisen earlier? (1mark)
(b) How does creation of variations in a species promote survival? (1 mark)
(c) Newly formed DNA copies may not be identical at times. Give reason (2mark)
OR
Which of the processes, sexual or asexual reproduction brings about maximum
variation in the off springs? Why?
15. A fuse is a safety device having a short length of a thin, tin-plated copper wire
having low melting point. The thickness and the length of the fuse wire depends on
the maximum current allowed through the circuit. The fuse for protecting our
domestic wiring is fitted just above our main switch on the switch board. Sangeeta of
class X used a fuse rated as 6 A in a circuit in which an electric heater
of 2.5 kW was connected with the main supply of 220 V. But the heater isn’t working.
(a) Why Sangeeta's heater is not operating? Give reason. (1 mark)
(b) Will the heater work, if the given fuse is replaced by another fuse rated 16A? (1
mark)
(c) Calculate how much current will flow in the circuit with the fuse rated 16 A? (2
mark).
Or
Write, how the fuse is connected in the circuit and why?

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