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I, 2012

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT – I, 2012

/SOCIAL SCIENCE

X / Class – X

3 90

Time allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 90

(i) 31

(ii) 1 10 1

(iii) 11 22 3 80

(iv) 23 30 5 120

(v) 31 4

General Instructions :

(i) The question paper has 31 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.

(ii) Questions from serial number 1 to 10 are Multiple Choice Questions. Each question

carries 1 mark.

(iii) Questions from serial number 11 to 22 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these

questions should not exceed 80 words each.

(iv) Questions from serial number 23 to 30 are 5 marks questions. Answer of these

questions should not exceed 120 words each.

(v) Question number 31 is a map question of 4 marks from Geography only. After

completion, attach the map inside your answer book.

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1A. 1B. 1C.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

The term „canal colonies‟ is related to :

(a) irrigated areas by the different sources of irrigation

(b) the areas irrigated by the new canals built by the British Indian

government

(c) well irrigated areas

(d) well drained areas

/OR

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Khostis were :

(a) a community of weavers (b) weavers

(c) cotton weavers (d) landless laboures

/OR

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Which of the following factors changed the form of urbanisation in the modern

world ?

(a) Unemployment (b) Secularism

(c) Capitalism (d) Industrialisation

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2A. 2B.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

What was the cheap book known in France ?

(a) Chap books (b) Biliotheque Bleue

(c) Hand books (d) Text books

/OR

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

The earliest novel in Marathi was.

(a) Ganga (b) Yamuna Paryatan

(c) Panchatantra (d) Kadambari

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3.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Forest land protected from any further depletion is called : (a) Reserve forest (b) Protected forest (c) Unclassed forest (d) None of these

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4.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Identify from the following the crop which takes almost a year to grow ? (a) Wheat (b) Sugarcane (c) Cotton (d) Rice

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5.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Majoritarianism is followed in which of the following countries ? (a) Belgium (b) Sri Lanka (c) England (d) Russia

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6.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Name the country among the following which follows „coming together‟ style of federalism. (a) UK (b) India (c) Switzerland (d) Spain

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7.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Buddhism is the major religion of : (a) India (b) Pakistan (c) Nepal (d) Sri Lanka

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8.

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Which state among the following has the lowest literacy rate ? (a) Punjab (b) Bihar (c) Kerala (d) Tamilnadu

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9.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Which one of the following is a useful measure for comparison between countries ? (a) National Income (b) Per capita income (c) Total income (d) Income from tertiary sector

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10.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Give full form of NREGA. (a) National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.

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(b) National Regional Employment Guarantee Act. (c) National Regional Employment Generation Act. (d) None of these

11A. 11B. 11C.

Before the arrival of outsiders, most of the Africans had a little reason to work for a wage . Explain three reasons.

/OR

1760

Why was East India Company keen on expanding textile exports from India during the 1760 ? Explain any three reasons.

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How did the development or expansion of Bombay (Mumbai) differ from London? Give any three points of difference.

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12A. 12B.

How did new forms of popular literature appear in print targeting new audience in the 18th century ? Explain with examples.

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How did novels become popular among masses ? Explain with examples.

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13.

"Indiscriminate use of resources has led to numerous problems” Justify the statement.

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14.

How have human activities affected the depletion of flora and fauna ? Explain.

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15.

“Rain water harvesting system is viable alternative both social by, economically and environmentally”. Support the statement with three examples.

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16.

What is bamboo drip irrigation ? Mention any two features of it.

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17. 1956

Explain three measures taken by Sri Lanka, according to an Act passed in 1956.

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18.

Explain overlapping social difference.

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19.

How do social divisions affect politics ? Explain.

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20. 2004

Compare India and Sri Lanka on the basis of any three indicators of HDI for 2004.

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21.

Classify the economic sectors on the basis of nature of activities. Mention the main feature of each.

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22.

Explain any three points of importance of public sector in our society.

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23A. 23B. 23C.

77 77

What is G 77 ? What did the G 77 countries want to gain from New International Economic Order ? Describe.

/OR

Describe any five major problems faced by new European merchants in setting up their industries in towns before the industrial revolution.

/OR

Describe five forms of entertainment that came up in the 19th century England.

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24A. 24B.

What were the three difficulties in copying manuscripts ? What was the use of printing press ? Describe.

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Who is the author of novel „Titash Ekti Nadir Nam‟ ? Describe the theme of this novel.

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25A.

How did issues of caste discrimination begin to write in many printed tracts and essays from the late nineteenth century ? Explain with examples.

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25B.

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„Novels created a sense of social awareness in India. Support the statement with suitable examples.

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26.

“Wheat and rice farming in India are fairly different from each other”. Support the statement with five suitable examples.

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27. 1992

Explain five changes towards decentralisation brought in the Constitution after

the Amendments made in 1992.

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28.

Describe any five ways in which women in India are still discriminated and

appressed.

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29.

What is Human Development Report ? Which organisation measures HDR ?

Explain the three major indicators of H.D.R.

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30.

How to create more employment in rural areas ? Explain with the help of five

suitable examples.

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31. (i) (A) (B)

(A)

(B)

Two features A and B are shown in the political outline map of India.

Identify these features with the help of following information and write

their correct names on the lines marked on the map.

(A) A soil type

(B) Type of Forest

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(ii)

(C)

(D)

On the same political outline map of India, locate and label the following

items with appropriate symbols.

(C) Rana Pratap Sagar Dam

(D) Leading producer state of ragi

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(31.1)

(31.2)

(31.3)

(31.4)

Note : The following questions are for the visually impaired candidates only lieu of Q. No. 31. (31.1) Which type of soil is found is Uttar Pradesh ? (31.2) What type of forest are found in Kerala ? (31.3) In which state Rana Pratap Sagar dam in located ? (31.4) Which is the leading „ragi producer state in India ?

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MARKING SCHEME

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Class – X

1A. 1B. 1C.

(b) P83 OR

(a) P116 OR

(d) P128

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2A. 2B.

(b) P162

OR

(b) P187

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3. (b) P20 1

4. (b) P40 1

5. (b) P3 1

6. (c) P15 1

7. (d) P48 1

8. (b) P10 1

9. (b) P9 1

10. (a) P33 1

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11B. 11C.

(ii) Agriculture and animal rearing was the main occupation of the people. Most of the villages and families were self-sufficient

(iii) In Africa, there were few consumer goods that wages could buy. (P 86) OR

(i) Consolidation of the East India Company power after the 1760s did not

initially lead to a decline in textile export from India. (ii) British cotton industries had not yet expanded (iii) Five Indian textiles were in great demand in Europe. (P 106)

OR

(i) Bombay was an over-crowded city, where a person had only 9.5 sq. yards of space whereas it was around 155 sq yards per person in London

(ii) Bombay did not grow according to a plan whereas London grew

according to plan. (iii) London had an average density of 8 persons per house where as the

density in Bombay was as high as 20. (P 142)

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12A. 12B.

(i) There were almanacs along with ballads and folktales. In England Chap books were carried by petty Pedlars known as chapman and sold for a penny

(ii) Bibliotheque Bleue were low priced books sold in France. (iii) There were the romances printed on four to six pages and the more

substantial ‘Histories’ which were stories of past. (P 162) OR

(i) World which the novel created were absorbing, believable and seemingly real.

(ii) Novels allowed individuals the pleasure of reading in private as well as the joy of publically reading or discussing stories with friends or relatives.

(iii) In rural areas people would collect to hear one of them reading novel aloud often becoming deeply involved in the lives of the characters. (P 179)

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13. (i) Depletion of resources for satisfying the greed of few individuals. (ii) Accumulation of resources in few hands. (iii) It has lead to global ecological crises such as global warming , ozone

layer depletion, environmental pollution and land degradation. (P 3)

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14. (i) Habitat destruction

(ii) Hunting (iii) Poaching (iv) Over exploitation (v) Environmental pollution

(vi) Poisoning the forest (Explain any three) (P 18)

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15. (i) In hilly and mountaneous regions, people built diversion channels like ‘gul’ or kul in Western Himalaya for agriculture.

(ii) Rooftop rain water harvesting was commonly practised to store drinking water particularly in Rajasthan.

(iii) In west Bengal, people develop inundation channels to irrigate their fields.

(iv) In semi-arid region agricultural fields were converted into rainfed storage structure that allowed the water to stand and moist the soil

(any three points) (P 30)

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16. ● (i) 18-20 liters of water enters the bamboo pipe system, get transported over hundreds of meters and finally reduces to 20-80 drops per minute at the site of the plant

(ii) Practised in Meghalaya. (P 32) ● Bamboo Drip Irrigation system is 200 year old system of tapping stream

and strip water by using bamboo pipe

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17. (i) Act was passed to recognise Sinhala as the only official language thus disregarding the Tamils.

(ii) The government followed preferential policies that favoured Sinhala applicants for University position and government Jobs.

(iii) The new Constitution stipulated that the state shall protect and foster

Buddhism. (P 3)

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18. (i) Social difference overlaps with another difference. (ii) People start feeling that they belong to different communities.

(iii) They create possibilities of deep social divisions. (P 33)

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19. Social divisions affect politics in both negative and positive ways Negative

(i) In Northern Ireland, there has been a violent and bitter ethno-political conflict for many years

(ii) Disintegration of Yugoslavia into six independent countries Positive (i) At the same time every expression of social division in politics does not

lead to such diasters because wherever social divisions exist, they are

reflected in politics (ii) In many countries, there are parties that focus only on community eg

D.M.K. AIADMK BSP in India. (P 34 & 36)

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20. Life expectancy : Higher in Sri Lanka than India Gross Enrolment Ratio : Higher in Sri Lanka than India Per capita income : Higher in Sri Lanka among all neighbouring countries Sri Lanka is much ahead than India in every field. (P 13)

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21. Classification. (i) Primary (ii) Secondary (iii) Tertiary

Primary : Directly using natural resources. It includes agriculture, dairy farming fishing etc when we produce goods by exploiting natural resources, it is the activity of primary sector. Secondary : Covers activities in which natural resource products are changed into other forms through manufacturing.

Tertiary sector : There activities help in the development of the primary and secondary sectors. (P 20)

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22. (i) Several things are needed by society which private sector will not

provide at reasonable cost (ii) Some of these services needed large sums of money which is beyond the

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capacity of private sector. (iii) Collecting of money from thousands of people who use these facilities is

not easy. (P 33 - 34) 23A. 23B. 23C.

● Most developing nations did not benefit from the fast growth of the western economies experienced in the 1950 s and 1960 s. So they organised themselves as a group-the group of 77 or (G77) ● (i) Real control over their natural resources

(ii) More assistance in their development (iii) Fairer price for raw materials (iv) Better access for their manufactured goods in developed

countries markets. (P 100) OR

(i) Expansion of world trade, so the merchants wanted to expand their production. But trade and craft guilds were very powerful.

(ii) They could create money problems for the merchants in their town (iii) Rulers had granted different guilds the monopoly rights to produce and

trade in specific products. So merchants were handicapped in towns. (iv) In the countryside peasants and artisans were available for work.

(v) Competition of prices. (P 105) OR

(i) For the wealthy Londoners, there was the annual ‘London Season’ where

elite groups could enjoy several cultural events such as the opera and theatre.

(ii) Working classes too had their own means of entertainment they used to meet in pubs and enjoy a drink, exchange news and discuss political

events (iii) The establishment of libraries, museums and art galleries provided

entertainment to common people. (iv) Music halls and later cinema houses became a source of mass

entertainment

(v) Industrial workers spent holidays by the sea shore and enjoyed both Sun and the wind which was a great source of entertainment. (P 136)

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24A. 24B.

● (i) Copying manuscript was an expensive business .

(ii) It was laborious and time consuming (ii) Manuscripts themselves were fragile awkward to handle and

could not be easily carried around or read easily. ● (1) It enabled people to produce books at greater speed (2) The production of books in large number created a new culture of

reading and enlarged the number of readers (P 156) OR

● Advaita Malla Burman. ● -Theme -The hero Ananta belongs to mallas, -A community of fisher folks

-He receives higher education inspite of the opression of the Mallas by the upper castes ● -The author is himself from a low caste.

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25A.

(i) Jyotiba Phule, the maratha pioneer of low castes, started protest movement.

(ii) He wrote about the injustice of the caste system in his Gulamgiri. (iii) B. R. Ambedkar and E.V. Ramaswamy wrote powerfully on caste

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25B.

(iv) Their writings were read by people all over India. (v) Local protest movements and sets also created a lot of journals and tracts.

(vi) Kashibaba millworker wrote and published chhote Aur Bada ka saval Any other relevant point (P 174)

OR

(i) Novels criticised the prevailing ills in the society but also suggested remedies

(ii) Dealt with everyday life of the common people, their anxieties, their

fears their straggles (iii) They dealt with everyday side of the society and took up almost every

aspect of social life from love and marriage to proper conduct of men and women.

(iv) Munshi Prem Chand’s ‘Sevasadan’ (v) Issues like child marriage and dowry have been woven in the story of the

novel in very interesting and clear way. (P 189 - 198)

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26. (a) Rainfall Wheat 50-75 cm Rice Above 100 cm

(b) Temp 15 C Above 25 C

(c) Area wise distribution

North and northwest part of country black soil of deccan

Plains of north and north eastern India

(d) Type of crop Rabi Kharif

(e) Major Producer Punjab Uttar Pradesh

(P 36 – 38)

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27. (i) Constitutionally mandatory to hold regular election to local govt. (ii) Seats are reserved for Sc, St, and OBC (iii) 1/3 of all positions are reserved for women. (iv) State Election Commission has been created to conduct Panchayat and

municipal election.

(v) State governments are requiered to share some powers and revenue with local government bodies. (P 24)

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28. (i) The literacy rate among women is only 54% where as among men is 76%

(ii) The porportion of women among highly paid and valued job is still very small.

(iii) Women are paid less than men in all areas of work. (iv) Parents prefer to have son rather than daughter (v) Sex selective and abortion led to decline in child sex ratio. (P 43)

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29. ● The development of human according to his full capacity is called Human Development Report ● UNDP is responsible for measuring H.D

● Principles (i) Educational levels (ii) Health status (iii) Per capita income (P 13)

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30. (i) Government can spend money or banks provide loan for irrigation.

(ii) Suppose one hectare of wheat can provide employment to the people for

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50 days. So increase the members ● Construction of new dams and canals. ● Development in transport facility by government.

● Credit from local banks, so that crops can be grown every year. (P 27) 31. See attached map for answer

For BLIDNS

(31.1) Alluvial Soil (31.2) Reserve Forest (31.3) Rajasthan (31.4) Karnataka

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