Summative Assessment-1 2014-2015

Social Science
Class IX
Time allowed: 3:00 hours

Maximum Marks: 90

General Instructions:
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The question paper has 30 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
Marks are indicated against each question.
Questions from serial number 1 to 8 are very short questions. Each question carry 1
mark.
Questions from serial number 9 to 20 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these questions
should not exceed 80 words each.
Questions from serial number 21 to 28 are 5 marks questions. Answer of these questions
should not exceed 100 words each.
Questions from serial number 29 and 30 are map question of 3 marks each from history
and geography. After completion, attach the map inside your answer book.

1. Write any two primary activities.

2. What is Duma?
Or
What was Enabling Act?
3. Write any one feature of Democracy.
4. Name the island groups of India lying in the Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal.
5. What is multiple cropping?
6. Write any two demerits of green revolution.
7. What do you understand by universal adult franchise?
8. Write the full form of H.Y.V seeds.
9. State any three effects of First World War on the Russian economy.
Or
Politically the Weimar was fragile Republic. Explain the statement.
10. In what ways the Nazi state seek to establish total control over the people?
Or
What were the social, economical and political conditions in Russia before 1905?
11. What is substance crisis? Explain any three factors responsible for the same.
12. Name the three major divisions of the Himalayas from North to South.
13. Write the main causes of River pollution?
14. Why 8230 ' E longitude has been selected as the Standard Meridian of India?
15. Which freedoms are usually taken away when a democracy is overthrown by military?
16. Describe any three main features of democracy?
17. What is a constitution? Why do we need a constitution?

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18. From where do the small farmers get capital needed for farming? How does it affect the
farmers?
19. Describe the role of health in our lives. Give any three points?
20. Write any three consequences of unemployment?
21. Describe the effects of the World War I on the European society?
Or
Explain the contribution of Lenin of Russian Revolution.
22. Describe the policies of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror.
23. Discuss the significant differences between the Himalayan Rivers and the Peninsular Rivers.
24. Explain any five features of the Ganga River System?
25. Describe any three basic values given in the preamble of constitution.
26. Distinguish between disguised unemployment and seasonal unemployment?
27. Indian Constitution is both rigid and flexible, explain it.
28. How do the chemical fertilizers affect the soil, groundwater , rivers, and lakes. What were the
effects of use of chemical fertilizer in Punjab.
29. Three items A, B and C are shown in the given outline map of France. Identify these items
with the help of following information and write their correct names on the lines marked on
the map.
a) The region not affected by the great fear.
b) The place where the French revolution of 1789 was started.
c) Sea located on the south of France.
30. On the given outline map of India, locate and label the following the appropriate symbols:
a) Western Ghats
b) Strait Separating India from Sri Lanka
c) Chilka lake

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