CBSE Sample Paper-03

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT –II

Class – IX Social Science

Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 90

General Instructions:
a) The question paper has 30 questions. All Questions are compulsory.
b) Question numbers 1-8 are Multiple Choice Questions. Each question carries one each.
c) Question numbers 9-20 are three marks questions. Answers of these questions should
not exceed 80 words.
d) Question numbers 21-26 are five marks questions. Answers of these questions should not
exceed 100 words.
e) Question number 27 and 28 are map questions of three marks each.
f) Question numbers 29-30 are based on OPEN TEXT ASSESSMENT BASED.

1. What is used to convert skin and hides into leather?

OR
In which month of the year the Dhangars harvested bajra and started their move to west?
OR
How much land was enclosed between 1750 and 1850 in England?
2. Elephants are found in which type of forests?
3. Which promises were done by Devi Lal during his election campaign with the people?
4. What do you understand by SEBC?
5. Where is Guantanamo Bay located?
6. In which areas of India even today famine to has caused starvation deaths?
7. Name three dimensions of food security?
8. Which states achieved the highest rate of growth in food grain production during Green
Revolution?
9. Why the Colonial Governments thought that the forests were unproductive? Give reasons.
OR
What were the instructions given to the police to check the movement of pastoralists in
colonial Africa?
OR
Can you explain why the production of wool was responsible for disappearance of the
common land?
10. Mention any three major transformations in the History of Cricket.
OR
How did the conservatives react against the movement for the national dress reform in US?
11. Why is cricket considered to be a colonial game?
OR
Describe the famous case of defiance of the shoe respect.

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12. “Transition period from hot rainy season to dry winter conditions linked with the occurrence
of cyclonic depression over Andaman Sea.” Explain
13. How do human beings influence the ecology of a region? Mention any three points.
14. Why the Northern Indian Plain is thickly populated? Mention the two states of Northern
Plains with high population density?
15. What is an election? How it gives an immense power to voters to make many choices?
16. Can you explain why parliamentary democracy in most countries is often known as the
cabinet form of government?
17. Can you illustrate any three significances of Rights?
18. The Famine of Bengal causes a heavy devastation’. Explain.
19. Elaborate the major objectives of Academy of Development Science?
20. Explain the three different cards of ration cards?
21. Can you write a brief outline of the ideas given by Dietrich Brandis for the management of
forests in India?
OR
How the pastoralists of Africa survived in droughts and dry seasons during pre colonial
period? How did their life become very miserable in drought during colonial rule?
OR
Why the British Government has problem from the production of opium in Central India and
Rajasthan?
22. Name the India’s National Game? Mention Some India’s achievements in the field of this
game?
OR
How would you explain the major changes in the clothing pattern which occurred in Europe
from seventeenth century to twentieth century?
23. What ideas justify that precipitation varies from place to place and season to season in our
country?
24. Which are the most widespread forests of India? Mention any two characteristic features of
these forests.
25. Can you illustrate the conditions of the democratic elections? Explain in Detail.
26. “It is not wrong to say that Democratic Government is not there in Saudi Arabia”. Are you
agreeing with this statement? Give some suitable reasons.
27.1 (a) two features A and B are marked in the given map of Bastar. Identify these features with
the help of the following information and write their correct names on the lines marked on the
map
A. A place associated with a centre of colonial administration in Bastar
B. A river which flows East to West in Bastar region
(b) On the same political map locate and label the following
C. Kanger – The forest in which the rebellion against colonial rule started first.

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 OR
27.2 On the given map of India Mark and locate-
A. A state where Gaddies are found
B. A state where Banjaras are found
C. A state where Dhangars are found

OR
27.3 (a) Three features A, B and C are marked in the given physical map of USA. Identify these
features with the help of the following information and write their correct names on the lines
marked on the map
A. Name of the crop grown in the shaded area in USA 1920
B. Name the mountain in the shaded area
C. Name the region of the shaded area.

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28.1. Two features A and B are marked in the given political map of India. Identify these features
with the help of the following information and write their correct names on the lines marked on
the map.
A. Type of Forest
B. A meteorological Station of Gujarat
28.2. Locate and Label Bharatpur Bird Sanctuaries with appropriate symbols on the same map
given for identification.

29. Question Based on OTBA

30. Question Based on OTBA

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