Brilliant Public School

Seepat Road, Bahatarai, Bilaspur (C.G.) Final Term Exam, 2017-18

Class - IX Subject – Social Science

Time: 3:00 Hrs. M.M. 80 Date: 09.03.2018 Friday

General Instructions:

1. The question paper has 28 questions in all. All questions are compulsory. 2. Questions from serial number 1to7 are very short answer type questions. Each question carries 1 mark. 3. Questions from serial number 8 to18 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these questions should not exceed

80 words each. 4. Question number 19 to 25 are 5 marks questions. Answer of these questions should not exceed 100

words. 5. Question numbers 26 & 27 are map questions from History with 1 mark each 6. Question number 28 is map question of 3 marks from Geography. 7. For Q. Nos.26, 27 and 28 (map based questions) one outline political map of India and world are

provided. After completion the work, attach the map inside your answer book. 8. Questions at Serial Number -20, 22 & 24 have Internal Choice. Attempt any one option out of the given

in each of these questions.

1. When Louis XIV ascended the throne in 1974, the treasury was empty. Give one reason for this. 1

2. Name the communities living in Bastar. 1

3. What is the outermost range of Himalayas called? 1

4. What is the electoral system in Fiji? 1

5. What is Preamble? 1

6. What are by-election? 1

7. Define calorie? 1

8. Describe any three conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. 3

9. Why did forest around railway tracks in India start disappearing after 1860? 3

10. Distinguish between Converging and Diverging Tectonic Plates. 3

11. What are the features of Sundarban Delta? 3

12. Why cannot Zimbabwe be called democratic? Give reasons. 3

13. Explain any three conditions that make elections democratic. 3

14. What are the three major functions of National Human Rights Commission? 3

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15. Write a short note on judicial review. 3

16. What is global poverty trends? 3

17. “Human capital is most important among all factors of production.” Discuss. 3

18. What is Fair Price Shop? Give its importance? 3

19. Who were the Jacobins? What were their contribution to the French Revolution? 5

20. Highlight five important features of education imparted in Nazi schools. 5

Or Explain any five measures adopted by Hitler to establish dictatorship in Germany. 21. Why are forests important for us? 5 22. Rainfall in India varies greatly. Give reasons. 5

Or Why is monsoon considered a unifying bond?

23. Why is democracy better than other forms of government? 5 24. “Poverty is the mother of many life-harming problems.” Do you agree to this, if yes then list out those

problems? 5 Or

Is there any disparity in the literacy rate among males & females in India? If yes, then why? 25. What is FCI? Why a situation of grains overflow arised with it and how it was controlled? 5 26. Locate Austria on world map.

27. Locate France on world map.

28. (i) Locate the following on political map of India.

(a) A state with lowest sex ratio. 1 (b) Gir forest. 1

(ii) Two features (a) and (b) are shown in the political outline 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) Name the state with highest density of population. 0.5 (b) Region receiving rainfall due to western disturbances. 0.5

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