FIRST TERM EXAMINATION – JULY-08
Class: IX Social Science Max. Marks: 80
Date: / / Duration: 3 Hours
Roll No.
General Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Marks are indicated against each question.
3. a) Answer to questions of 1 mark may be from one word to one sentence.
b) Answer to questions of 3 marks should not exceed 80 words.
c) Answer to questions of 4 marks should not exceed 100 words.
4. Attach map provided with the answer sheet.
5. There is no overall choice. However internal choice is provided in some questions.
6. Write the same question number as given in the question paper while answering a question in your answer book.
In the age of 18 which political right in Indian Constitution will you enjoy? 1
2. State any one definition of democracy. 1
3. Define the term ‘apartheid’. 1
4. Mention the latitudinal extent of main land of India. 1
5. How is the east coastal belt of India divided? 1
6. What is meant by ‘people as resource’? 1
7. Mention any two components of Disaster Risk Management. 1
8. What is a hazard? 1
9. How do we reduce disaster risk? 1
10. Write any one of the strategies to mitigate the effect of earthquake. 1
11. List any 6 practices banned by the Chief Election Commission during election in India. 3
12. Explain any three major controls of the climate of a place. 3
13. To protect the flora and fauna of the country, the government has taken many steps. Mention any
three of them. 3
14. What types of changes can be seen in agriculture and small scale industry if electricity
comes to a village? 3
15. Answer any two questions: (2x3=6)
a. How was the French society divided before the French Revolution?
b. Review the attitude of the constitution of French revolutionary government towards Women.
c. Describe the global influence of the Russian Revolution.
16. Answer any two questions: (2x3=6)
a. Why are forests affected by wars?
b. Analyse the role of shipbuilding and railway in accelerating the deforestation.
c. Evaluate the relationship between the Nazi cult of motherhood and rise of dictatorship.
17. How did the US allied forces invade Iraq disregarding the UN directive? 4
18. In your experience of School Parliament Election and Indian Parliament Election come up
with your arguments in favour of democracy. 4
19. a) Why do we still accept and respect Indian Constitution made by the Constituent Assembly
more than 50 years ago?
Or
b) Analyse the difference in voter turnout figures in India and the US. 4
20. Describe the four factors required for the production of goods and services. 4
21. Define unemployment? Distinguish between disguised unemployment and seasonal
unemployment. 4
22. a) Describe the interstate disparities of poverty in India.
Or
b) List out any four strategies adopted by the government on poverty alleviation. 4
23. Elaborate and explain ‘PRRP’. 4
24. Describe all four drainage patterns with the support of diagrams. 4
25. a) List all six physiographic divisions of India. How do these physiographic units make the
country richer in natural resources?
Or
b) The central location of India at the head of the Indian Ocean is considered of great
significance. Why? 4
26. a) Explain the rise of the Great Economic Depression in the US and its impact in Germany.
Or
b) How did the Nazis use the media as the art of propaganda? 4
27. a) On the outline map of Europe locate any two countries which belonged to the Allied Powers and any
two countries which belonged to the Central Powers during the Second World War.
Or
b) On the given outline map of Europe locate and shade the following
a) Kingdom of France b) Kingdom of Hungary c) Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
d) Great Britain ½ x4=2
28. On the given outline map of the world locate the following centres of trade:
a) London b) Kolkata c) Tokyo d) Buenos Aires
and label the following major continental plates:
a) Indo-Australian Plate b) Eurasian Plate c) South American Plate d) African Plate
½ x8=4
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