SCIENCE MOCK PAPER III

1. Give the molecular formula and IUPAC name of a carboxylic acid used as a preservative.

2. Why carbon forms strong bonds with other carbon atoms, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen or sulphur? 1 3. List any two functions of food chain in an ecosystem. 4. . a. How does valency vary in a group on going from top to bottom? b. How does atomic size vary in a period on going from left to right? 1 2

5. . How does the brain perceive the image formed on the retina? 6. (a) Define watershed management. (b) What are the advantages of watershed management? 7. . How dams are useful for the society? Mention any two points. 8.How are coal and petroleum a threat to environment? Explain 9. Why the sun appears red at sunrise and sunset?

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10. A concave length has focal length of 25 cm. At what distance should the object from the lens be placed so that if it forms an image at 20 cm distance from the lens? Also find the magnification produced by the lens. 11. How are we able to see distant and near by objects clearly? Which part of eye helps in changing curvature of lens? Why no image is formed at blind spot? 3

12. . (a) Give the pair of contrasting traits of the following characters in pea plant and mention which is dominant and recessive. i) yellow seed (b) What is inheritance? 13. (a) How Archaeopteryx serves as a connecting link between birds and reptiles? (b) What do you mean by the term evolution? (c) What was the result of Mendel, when he reproduced the plants obtained in F1 progeny by self pollination? ii) round seed

14. (a)Name the tissue which provides nutrition to the developing embryo. (b) What is the function of: (i) Seminal vesicles (ii) Uterus. `

15. (a) What is fertilization? (b) Distinguish between external and internal fertilization. (c) What is the site of fertilization in human beings?

16.Draw a longitudinal section of a flower and label all the parts. 17. . (a) Define Fossil. (b) Discuss two ways of determining the age of fossils.

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18. On reaction with sodium hydroxide, X yielded ethanoic acid and ethanol. (a) Give the IUPAC name of X? (b) Name the reaction. (c) Give a chemical reaction for the above reaction.

19. (a) Why physical properties and chemical properties of an element are periodic function of their atomic numbers? (b) How does Modern Periodic Law justifies one position for isotopes? 20. (a) Draw a ray diagram of convex lens when the object is between focus and optical centre. (b) During its passage from one medium to another, where does a light ray change its path? (c) The power of a lens is 4.0 D. What is the nature of the lens? 3 5

OR (a) Give three points of differences between real and virtual images. (b) An object placed at the bottom of the beaker appears to be raised. Why?

21. (a) Refractive index of a medium with respect to air is always greater than 1. Explain why? (b) State the laws of refraction of light. (c) A concave mirror produces three times enlarged image of an object placed at 10 cm in front of it. Calculate the radius of curvature of the mirror. 5

OR (a) How is image distance, object distance and focal length of a lens are related to each other? Why focal length of convex lens is considered positive and that of concave lens is considered negative? (b) An object is placed at a distance of 20 cm from a convex lens of radius of curvature of 20 cm. Find the nature, position and size of the image. 22. . (a) Define: i. Germination ii. Fertilization. (b) What is implantation? (c ) What are the two functions of testes? 5

OR (a) Why does menstruation occur? (b) What are sexually transmitted diseases? Name two such diseases. (c) Name the sexually transmitted disease that damages the immune system of human body?

23. (a) Why covalent compounds are generally poor conductors of electricity? (b) Name the gas evolved when ethanoic acid is added to sodium carbonate. How would you prove the presence of this gas? (c) Write the structural formula of two isomers of n- pentane C5H12.

OR (a) Give the IUPAC name of the following: (i)CH3CH2OH (ii) CH3CHBrCH3 (b) What is difference between the formula of the two successive members of a homologous series? (c) What kind of flame is produced when unsaturated hydrocarbons are burnt over a flame? (d) Give an example of an addition reaction. Write the chemical reaction also.

24. a. Give three points to distinguish between alkenes and alkynes. b. Explain the mechanism of cleaning action of detergents.

OR (a) State any three characteristics of a homologous series. (b) What is the valency of carbon? How it satisfies its valency in a molecule of methane?

SECTION B

25. .5 mL each of acetic acid and water are mixed together and shaken well. The resulting mixture would appear as in:

(a)I (b)II (c) III (d)IV

26. .A strip of copper was placed in a beaker containing zinc sulphate solution. On observing the strip next day, it was noticed that (a) The copper strip remained as it was (b) The copper strip became thinner (c) The copper strip became thicker (d) The colour of the copper strip changed.

27. Metals like iron, copper, aluminium and zinc are given to a student. The correct decreasing order of reactivity of these metals written by the student is: a) Zn > Fe > Al > Cu b) Fe > Cu > Al > Zn c) Al > Zn > Fe > Cu d) Zn > Al > Fe > Cu

28. The bulb used in a torch light is placed at ___________from the mirror used. (a) f (b) f/2 (c) 2f (d) f/4 29. If you see sun directly with your eye, the convergent light will destroy (a) Retina (b) Cornea (c) Pupil (d) Eye lens

30. Image found by a concave mirror (a) May be real or virtual (b) May be erect or inverted (c) Can be magnified or diminished (d) All of the above

31. . A sharp image of distant object is obtained on a screen by using convex lens. In order to determine the focal length of the lens you need to measure the distance between the a) Lens and the object

b) Lens and the screen c) Object and the screen d) Lens and the screen and also object and the screen 32. . A lens of short focal length a) Bend the light rays less b) Bends the light rays more c) Bending depends upon the aperture of lens d) None of these 33. When the ray light is going from denser to rarer medium, the angle of refraction is always a) Smaller than the angle of incidence b) Equal to the angle of incidence c) Greater than the angle of incidence d) Can be any depending upon the material of the denser medium. 34. . If a glass rod of is immersed in a liquid of the same refractive index, it will a) Appear to be longer b) Appear to be shorter c)Glass rod will disappear d) Appear to be thicker 35. Radius of curvature of a lens is 40 cm. Object is placed at a distance twice of focal length. Where will the image be formed? a) At infinity b) Between f and 2f c) At f d) At 2f

36. What happens to raisins during endosmosis? (a) Swell up (b) Shrink (c) First swell up and then shrink (d) Remain same 37. .The following are the sketches made by some students. The sketch not illustrative of budding in yeast is-

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D 38. A yeast cell in which budding occurs, it has (a) One bud cell (b) Two bud cell (c) Four bud cell (d) Chain of bud cells 39. In Amoeba locomotion offers by (a) Legs (b) Flagella (c) Pseudopodia

(d) Both (a) and (b)

40. A student is given a permanent slide showing binary fission in Amoeba. The following are the steps in focusing the object under the microscope: I. Place the slide on the stage; look through the eye piece and adjust the mirror and diaphragm to get even illumination. II. Look through the eye piece and raise the objective using coarse adjustment untl the object is focused. III. Make the focus sharp with the help of fine adjustment. IV. Look through the eye piece and move the slide until the object is visible. The proper sequence of the steps is a) I,III,IV,II b) II,III,IV,I c) IV,III,II,I d) I,IV,II,III 41. Which of these is not a type of reproduction? a) Fragmentation b) Vegetative propagation c) Budding d) Regeneration change

42. A student soaked 12 g of raisins in 60 mL of distilled water in two beakers A and B each. She maintained beaker A at 200C and beaker B at 400C. after an hour. The percentage of water absorbed will be, a) The same in both A and B b) More in A than in B c) More in B than in A d) Exactly twice as much as in B as in A