CBSE Sample Paper - 03

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT I
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 21-28 are five marks questions. Answers of these questions should not
exceed 100 words.
e) Question number 27 and 28 are based on map questions of three marks each.
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Question numbers 29 and 30 are Map Based Questions carrying three marks each.
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Define Tithe?
Which sector is includes manufacturing?
How can a large population of India be turned as an asset rather than a liability?
Which factors modified the relief features of India?
Whose rule is considered democratic rule?
Why modern democracies are representatives democracies?
Did all members of the Constituent Assembly of India hold the same views on all provisions
of the Constitution?
Which is the most labour absorbing sector of economy?
Who was Hitler? How did Hitler reconstruct Germany?
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Who was M.N. Roy?
Highlight any three features of the new style of politics devised by Hitler.
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Discuss the negative aspects of the Bolshevik government on soviet union and its people.
India accounts for about 2.4% of the total geographical area of the world, but supports the
second largest population of the world. What are its implications?
Why is the difference between the durations of day and night hardly felt at Kanyakumari but
not so in Kashmir?
According to rules in India, industries can't put their untreated sewage into rivers. Why are
such rules not followed? Give any three reasons.
Highlight the basic constraint in raising production from a farm.
Explain the difficulties faced by the people in a non-democratic country.
The manner in which the Constituent Assembly worked gives sanctity to the Constitution of
India." Justify the statement with three arguments.
Is India a democratic country? Write any three arguments in favour of your answer.
How do farmers use their earning which they get by selling the surplus produce in the
market?
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19. A democracy is incomplete without Universal Adult Franchise'. Explain the values which are
associated
ted with Universal Adult Franchise.
20. What was Guillotine? How was it used?
21. Explain any five effects of the Russian Revolution of 1917 over Russia.
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What was the impact of World War I on European society?
22. The central location of India at the head of Indian Ocean is considered of great significance.
Why?
23. What types of lakes are found in India? Give suitable examples.
24. What is IMF? How does it work?
25. Highlight the salient features of the Constitution of India.
26. What is the aim of production? State any four requirements needed for production of goods
and services.
27. "Human resource is an indispensable factor of production". Justify.
28. In which manner did the insurrection by Parisians revolutionise France?
29. Three items A, B, and C are shown in the given outline map of France. Identify the
these items
with the help of following information and write their correct names on the lines marked on
the map.
A. Port related to slave trade
B. Epicenters of main panic movement
C. Epicenters of main panic movement

30. (a) Two features are shown on the outline map of India. Identify these features and write
their names on the lines marked on the map.
(i) The southernmost point on the Indian mainland
(ii) The highest peak in the Himalayas in India
(b) On the map, locate and label the following with appropriate symbols.
(i) A region of the Peninsular Plateau which mi triangular in shape
(ii) Bomdila Pass

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