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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Social Science Paper 9
Board | CBSE |
Class | X |
Subject | Social Science |
Sample Paper Set | Paper 9 |
Category | CBSE Sample Papers |
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Time Allowed: 3 hours
Max. Marks: 80
General Instructions:
- This question paper consists of 28 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
- Questions from Serial No. 1 to 7 are very short answer type questions. Each question carries 1 mark.
- Questions from Serial No. 8 to 18 are of 3 marks questions. Answer to these questions should not exceed 80 words each.
- Questions from Serial No. 19 to 25 are of 5 marks questions. Answer should not exceed 100 words each.
- Questions No. 26 and 27 are map questions carrying 1+1= 2 marks from History. After completion, attach the maps inside your answer books.
- Questions No. 28 is a map question of 3 marks from geography.
Question 1.
How did Lord Byron contribute to the Greek war of Independence?
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Who were called ‘Colons’ in Vietnam?
Question 2.
What changes were brought in Indian flag by Mahatma Gandhi?
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Name the writer who wrote a play based on the lives of Trung sisters.
Question 3.
Why did Sri Lankan Tamils feel alienated from Sinhalese?
Question 4.
Who is the political head of municipality and gram panchayat?
Question 5.
What kind of social differences do we normally face in our society?
Question 6.
Besides more income, what other things do the people seek?
Question 7.
What are the drawbacks of an unorganised sector?
Question 8.
What was rinderpest? State any two effects of rinderpest on Africa.
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Describe various steps which were taken to clean up London.
Question 9.
How did print culture affect women in the 19th century?
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How did G.A. Henry’s historical adventure novels for bugs became popular?
Question 10.
Why do we need to conserve water resources?
Question 11.
Why is there enormous pressure on land in intensive subsistence farming?
Question 12.
What are the uses or importance of natural gas as a fuel?
Question 13.
What difficulties are faced during local government elections?
Question 14.
How can you say that women’s role in public life is minimal?
Question 15.
How is a government of alliances formed?
Question 16.
What are different types of unemployments in India?
Question 17.
“Deposits with the banks are beneficial to the depositors as well as to the Nation”. Examine the statement.
Question 18.
How would flexibility in labour laws help companies?
Question 19.
Discuss the lives of the aristocrats and the new middle class in 19th century France.
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Explain the causes of US involvement in the war in Vietnam. What effect did this involvement have on life within the US itself?
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“Rats were most common in the modern newly built areas of Hanoi.” How was the rat hunt started in Hanoi?
Question 20.
Why did Mahatma Gandhi relaunch the Civil Disobedience Movement with great apprehension? Explain.
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Why and how did Mahatma Gandhi use Satyagraha to fight against injustice and denial of rights? Explain with the help of examples.
Question 21.
Mention three problems faced by the textile industry. What is the contribution of the textile industry to Indian economy?
Question 22.
Why is air travel more popular in the North Eastern states of India? Explain.
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What are Border Roads? Describe their significance.
Question 23.
With the help of examples elaborate how power can be shared between social and linguistic groups.
Question 24.
How are democratic governments better than the other forms of governments? Compare.
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The combination of politics and social division is very dangerous and explosive. Do you agree? Support the answer with suitable examples.
Question 25.
Copra has enabled the consumers to have the right to represent in the consumer courts. Explain how it benefits the consumers.
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How can a consumer get justice when his/her rights are denied? Explain.
Question 26.
On the given outline map of India, locate and mark the place where Congress Session of 1927 held.
Question 27.
On the given outline map of India, mark the place where Indigo planters went on strike.
Question 28.
On the given political map of India identify the following:
(a) A thermal power plant.
(b) A cotton textile industry.
(c) A Software technology park.
(d) Woolen Textile Industry
Answers
Answer 1.
Lord Byron, an English poet, organised funds for the Greek struggle against the Ottoman Empire and also participated in the war.
OR
The French citizens who lived in Vietnam were called as colons by the Vietnamese.
Answer 2.
In 1921, Gandhiji had designed the Swaraj flag. It was again a tricolour (red, green and white) and had a spinning wheel in the centre representing the Gandhian ideal of self-help.
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The name of writer: Phan Boi Chau.
Answer 3.
They felt that the constitution and government policies denied them even political rights, discriminated against them in getting jobs and other opportunities and ignored their interests.
Answer 4.
Mayor and Sarpanch are the political heads of the municipality and gram Panchayat respectively.
Answer 5.
People around us are male and female, tall or short, have different kinds of complexions, have different physical abilities or disabilities.
Answer 6.
Besides more income, people seek to have equal treatment, freedom security and good health.
Answer 7.
Jobs here are often low paid and not regular. No, provision for casual or paid leave, leave due to sickness, etc. Basically employment is not secured.
Answer 8.
Rinderpest was a devastating fast spreading disease of cattle. It arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It was carried by injected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers, invading Eritrea in East Africa.
Following were the effects of Rinderpest on Africa:
- Rinderpest spread in Africa like forest fire. It killed about 90% of the total cattle. The loss of cattle destroyed African livelihoods.
- Planters, mine owners and colonials governments now successfully monopolised what scarce cattle resources remained to strengthen their power and to force Africans into the labour market.
- Control over the scarce resource of cattle enabled European colonises to conquer Africa.
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Following steps were taken to clean up London:
- Decongestion of localities by Introduction of rent control.
- Increasing green open spaces by building suburbs or countryside homes by the rich.
- Landscaping and building cottages for single family only.
- Pollution reduction by buildings green belt around London and building underground railways.
- All the labours was shifted to the outskirts and their are room apartments which were pretty unhygienic were removed from the city of London.
Answer 9.
Affect of print culture on women in the 19th century:
- Women became important as leaders as well as writer.
- Penny Magazines were especially meant for women, as well as manuals teaching proper behaviour and house keeping.
- When novels began to be written in the 19th century, women were seen as important leaders
- Some of the best known novelists had defined a new type of woman; as a person with mill strength of personality, determination and the power to think.
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- G.A. Henry’s novels were also widely popular during the height of the British Empire.
- They aroused the excitement and adventure of conquering storage lands.
- They were set in Mexico, Alexandria, Siberia and many other countries.
- They were always about young boys who witnessed grand historical events get involved in some military action a show what they called English courage.
Answer 10.
- Water conservation helps us to conserve and manage are available water resources.
- Pure water is required to safeguard our selves from health hazards.
- For ensuring food security, we require immense water for irrigation.
- Conservation of water is also required for continuation of our livelihood and productive activities. .
- It is required to prevent degradation of our natural ecosystem.
- Over exploitation and mismanagement of water resources will impoverish this resource and cause an ecological crisis that may have profound impact on our lives.
Answer 11.
- Right of inheritance leading to the division of land among successive generations has rendered land holding sizes uneconomical.
- The farmers continue to take maximum output from the limited land, in the absence of alternative sources of livelihood.
- That is why there is enormous pressure on agricultural land.
Answer 12.
Importance/Uses of natural gas as a fuel:
- It is an important and clean energy resource found in association with or without petroleum.
- It is used as a source of energy as well as an industrial raw material in the petrochemical Industry.
- As a source of energy, it is used in vehicles as compressed natural gas (CNG). For cooking purposes it is used as liquified petroleum gas (LPG).
- It is considered an environment friendly fuel because of low carbondioxide emissions.
Answer 13.
Difficulties faced during local govt, elections are:
- While elections are held regularly and enthusiastically, Gram Sabha are not held regularly.
- Most state governments, have not transferred significant powers to the local governments.
- Not they are given adequate resources to improve infrastructure.
Answer 14.
- Earlier, only man were allowed to participate in public affairs, vote and contest for elections and public offices.
- Gradually, the gender issue was raised in politics.
- Women in different parts of the world organised and agitated for equal rights.
- There were agitations in different countries for extension of voting rights to women.
- These agitations demanded enhancing the political and legal status of women and improving their educational and carrier opportunities.
- More feminist movements have taken place for equality of women.
Answer 15.
- When several parties in a multi-party system join hands for the purpose of contesting elections and winning power, it is called an alliance or front.
- In India, there were three major alliance in 2014 parliamentary elections.
- These were the National Democartic Alliance or NDA formed by BJP and its allies, United Progressive Alliance or UPA formed by Congress-I and its allies and the third one was the left front, which is formed by communists or their parties like CPI and CPIM.
Answer 16.
Different types of Unemployment in India are:
- Underemployment or disguised Unemployment: A situation where there are more people in agriculture than necessary. So, even if you move a few people out, production will not be affected. It is called underemployment. This kind of underemployment is hidden in contrast to someone who does not have a job and is clearly visible as unemployed. Hence it is also called disguised unemployment.
- Seasonal Unemployment: When people are unemployed for a particular season, It is called as seasonal unemployment. For example, if farmers are ploughing land only for rabi season, then they become unemployed for the rest of seasons.
Answer 17.
Deposits with the banks are beneficial to the depositors as well as to the nation.
Benefits to the depositors:
- Banks accepts the deposits and pay interest to the depositor.
- People’s money is safe with the banks.
- People can withdraw the money as and when they require.
Benefits to the Nation:
- Banks use money of the depositor to afford loans.
- There is huge demand for loans for various economic activities.
- Banks mediate between those who have surplus funds and those who are in need of these funds. Thus it helps in the economic development of the nation.
Answer 18.
- For companies to sustain themselves in competition and progress, flexibility in labour laws plays a major role.
- By easing up an labour laws, company heads can negotiate wages and terminate employment depending on market conditions.
- This results in an increase in the company’s competitiveness.
Answer 19.
- The landed aristocracy dominated social and political spheres.
- They were united by a common lifestyle. Huge estates and large town houses were owned by them.
- Marriages connected the aristocratic families. Though they formed a small group, they dominated with power.
- In the western and some parts of Central Europe, commercial classes began to emerge because of setting up of Industries and beginning of trade.
- This class consists of new social group of middle class and working class.
- The middle class included industrialists, businessmen and professionals. They were less in number.
- It was the liberal and educated middle-class that encouraged national unity and abolition of aristocratic privileges.
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The struggle for freedom by the Vietnamese people was a long drawn. They had to face three countries – The French, the Japanese and the USA. There were many causes due to which USA had to get involved in the Vietnam war.
- The US government feared the spread and popularity of communism in Vietnam.
- The US was afraid how it would attack the other capitalist countries.
- With these thoughts, the US was always ready to fight communist story hold in any part of the world.
- The rise of communism in Vietnam was seen as a threat and US stopped in to intervene.
- During this time, France was also facing insulting revolts from the Vietnamese.
- France being a capitalist country, US felt it had to stop in to save France honour as one of the capitalist brethren. And also the French had been an ally of the US in World War-II.
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- To get rid of rats, a ‘Rat Flunt’ was started in 1902.
- The French hired Vietnamese workers and paid them for each rat they caught.
- Rats began to be caught in thousands but still there seemed to be no end.
- Those who did the dirty work of entering sewers found that if they came together, they could get more money.
- The bounty was paid when a tail was given as a proof that a rat had been killed.
- So the rat catchers took to just clipping the tails and releasing the rats, so that the process could be repeated over and over again.
- Ultimately, the French were forced to stop the bounty programme.
- Besides this arrangement, the plague swept through the area.
Answer 20.
Mahatma Gandhi relaunched the Civil Disobedience Movement with great apprehension:
- In Dec. 1931 Gandhiji went to London for the round Table conference, but the negotiations broke down and he returned disappointed.
- In India he discovered that the government had begun a new cycle of repression.
- Abdul Ghaffer Khan and Jawahar Lai Nehru were both in Jail.
- The Congress had been declared illegal.
- series of measures had been imposed to prevent meetings, demonstrations and boycotts.
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- Mahatma Gandhi successfully fought the British regime with a different method of mass agitation, called Satyagraha.
- The idea of Satyagraha emphasised the power of truth and the need to search the truth.
- It suggested that if cause was true and against injustice then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor colonial power.
- He traveled to Champaran, Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against plantation system which was forced on them.
- Then in 1917 he organised a Satyagraha to support the peasants of the Kheda district of Gujarat. Affected by crop failure and a plague epidemic, the peasants of Kheda could not pay revenue and were demanding that the revenue be relaxed.
Answer 21.
Problems faced by textile Industry are:
- Power supply is erratic and machinery is out dated.
- Law output of lobour.
- The industry faces stiff competition from the synthetic fibre industry.
Contribution of textile Industry to Indian economy are:
- It contributes significantly to total Industrial production i.e., about 14 percent.
- About 35 million people are directly employed in the industry, generating employment opportunities.
- The Industry earns a huge cement of foreign exchange.
- It contributes about four percent to our GDP.
Answer 22.
Air travel is more popular in the north eastern states of India because:
- North Eastern part of the country is marked with the presence of big rivers.
- It has dissected relief.
- Most of the area is covered with dense forests.
- It is hit by frequent floods.
- It shares long International frontier.
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- Border Roads are constructed and maintained by Border Road organisations of India.
- These roads are of strategic importance in the northern and north eastern border of India.
- These roads improve accessibility in areas of difficult terriers like high altitude of Leh and Ladakh where the average height of the road is 5,000 metre.
- It helps in the economic development of these area.
- These roads are strengthening and defence system in the border areas.
Answer 23.
- Power may be shared among different social groups such as the religious and linguistic groups.
- In some countries, there are constitutional and legal arrangement whereby socially weaker sections and women are represented in the legislature and administration.
- There is a system of ‘reserved constituency’ in our country.
- This type of arrangement is meant to give space in the government and administrative to diverse social groups, who otherwise world feel alievated from the government.
- This method is used to give minority communities a fair share in power.
- Community Government in Belgium is a good example of this arrangement.
Answer 24.
The democratic governments are better than other forms of government.
- Democratic government are better than any other form of government.
- They hold regular elections, while not in other forms of government.
- Democracy have political parties, while not in other forms of government.
- They guarantee rights of citizens, while not in other type of government.
- Such government allow room to correct mistakes, while not in other forms of government.
- Such government accommodate social diversities while not in other forms of government.
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Social divisions and politics really make a very explosive combination.
- We have seen the case of Sri Lanka, where preference is given to Sinhalese, dejecting the Tamils in the society as well as politics, which led to revolt and ultimately a civil war, which is creating disturbance in the country.
- In Northern Ireland, the Catholics were represented by Nationalist parties who wanted to join the Republic of Ireland.
- The Protestants were represented by Unionists, who wanted to remain with the United Kingdom. This led to conflict between them and hundreds of civilians, militants and security forces were killed.
- In Yugoslavia, the political competition along religious and ethnic lines led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia into six independent countries.
Answer 25.
- Under COPRA, a three ties quasi-judicial machinery at the district, state and national levels was set up for redressal of consumer disputes.
- The district level court deals with the cases involving claims upto ₹ 20 lakhs, the state level court between ₹ 20 lakh and ₹ 1 crore and the national level court deals with cases involving claims exceeding ₹ 1 crore.
- If a case is dismissed in the district level court, the consumer can also appeal in state and then in national level court. Thus, the Act has enabled us as consumers to have the right to represent in the consumer courts.
- If strengthened the consumer movement and provided the consumers with the right to seek redressal against unfair trade practices and exploitation. If any damage is done to a consumer, she has the right to get compensation depending on the degree of damage.
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- Consumer has the right to seek redressal against unfair practices and exploitation. If any damage is done to a consumer, she has the right to get compensation depending upon the degree of damage.
- Consumer forums or consumer protection councils guide consumers, on how to file cases in the consumer court. On many occasions, they represent individual consumers in the consumers courts.
- Under copra, a three ties quasi-judicial machinery at the district, state and national level was set up for redressal of consumer disputes.
- The district level court deals with the cases involving ₹ 20 lakh, the state level between 20 lakh and one crore and national level deals with cases above 1 crore.
- If a case is dismissed in district level court the consumers can also appeal in state and then national level courts.
Answer 26.
Answer 27.
Answer 28.
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