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Sample Paper – 2010

Class – X
Subject - SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Name the fabled South American city of Gold.

OR

Where and When was the Elgin Mill started?

OR

What was Bloody Sunday? 1

2. Who proclaimed : ‘Tremble therefore, tyrants of the world! Tremble before

the virtual writer!

OR

What was Meyeli? 1

3. Why are leguminous crops mostly grown in relation with other crops? 1

4. Name the problem that has seriously threatened the Buxa Tiger reserves in
West Bengal. 1

5. Give two main differences between Magnetite and Haemetite. 1

6. What is the difference of financial investment between the small scale and
Large scale industry? 1

7. Give the ethnic composition of Brussels. 1

8. What are Feminist movements? 1

9. Why is Per capita income for all countries calculated in the same currency? 1

10. Which day is observed as National consumers day and why? 1

11. What are the symbols of natonalism that gave collective identity to the
people of India 3

12. Read the extract and answer the questions that follows:
‘Communalism in its higher aspect, then, is indispensable to the formation of
a harmonious whole in a country like India. The units of Indian society are
not territorial as in European countries … The principle of European
democracy cannot be applied to India without recognising the fact of
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communal groups. The Muslim demand for the creation of a Muslim India
within India is, therefore, perfectly justified…

(a) Name the speaker and the organization he is heading.

(b) What is the speaker trying to justify?
(c) What demand arising in later years found an intellectual justification in the above
remarks? 3

13. How did India play a crucial role in the late nineteenth century world economy?

OR

How did East India company try to assert a monopoly right to trade?

OR

What forms of entertainment came up in 19th century England to provide

leisure activities for the people? 3

14. What conditions have been put forward by the historians to prove that Print
culture created conditions within which the French revolution occurred?

OR

How did the novels produced a sense of Pan-Indian belonging? 3

15. Write three major steps that were taken towards Decentralization in the
constitution Amendment Act of 1992 3

16. Describe the model adopted by Belgium for Power sharing. 3

17. Explain the terms :

(1) Infant Mortality Rate (2) Literacy Rate (3) Net Attendance Ratio 3

18. Explain any three rights of consumers as enriched in the consumer protection
act of 1986. 3

19. What was Ho chi minh trail and how it was used by the Vietnamese?

OR

Briefly trace the process of Unification of Germany. 4

20. What are the factors responsible for location of Jute mills in Hughli
basin? Mention two advantages offered by Jute. 3+1

21. Mention three uses of Water transport. Name the places connected by
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National waterway no. 1. 3+1

22. Write three characteristics of Regur soil. Where are these Soil found in
India? 3+1

23. What forms does Communalism takes in Politics? Discuss with four
examples. 4

24. What are Pressure groups? Discuss the forms of relationship between
Political parties and Pressure group? 1+3

25. Explain any two challenges of Democracy. 4

26. What are the characteristics of Unorganized sectors? How can the workers
in the Unorganized sector be protected? 2+2

27. Name two formal and two informal sources of rural credit in India. State
Any two advantages of former source of credit. 1+1+2

28. What role can the government play in making globalization ‘fair’? 4

29. Map – identification

1. A place where Purna swaraj resolution was adopted.

2. A city associated with Jallianwala Bagh incident.
3. A type of Soil
4. A major Coffee producing state
5. A thermal power plant
6. An Iron ore mine
OR
1. Dandi
2. Chauri chaura
3. Sardar sarovar dam
4. Vishakhapatnam
5. Kochi seaport
6. Tuticorin

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Name : Mr shailesh srivastava
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