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Social Science Class 10 Kerala Syllabus Model Question Paper Set 3
Time: 2½ Hours
Score: 80 Marks
Instructions:
- First 15 minutes is given as cool off time.
- This time is to be used for reading and understanding the questions.
- Answer the questions based on instructions.
- Answer the questions according to the score and time.
I. Answer any seven questions from Q. No. 1 to 8. Each carries 2 scores. (7 × 2 = 14)
Question 1.
Compare the Kharif and Rabi crops in India.
Answer:
| Cropping seasons | Sowing period | Harvesting period |
| Kharif | June (onset of monsoon) | Early Novermber (End of monsoon) |
| Rabi | November (Beginning of winter) | March (Beginning of Summer). |
Question 2.
Who introduced Wardha Education plan?
Write down its objectives?
Answer:
- Gandhiji
- His major objective was Vocational Education.
Question 3.
Which global pressure belt is known as doldrum? is the name suitable for the pressure belt? Analyse.
Answer:
The equatorial low pressure belt is known as doldrums.
This is the zone where the sun’s rays fall vertically throughout the year hence the temperature will be high in this zone all through the year. As the air in this zone ascends on a large scale, winds are very feable here. This pressure belt is also known as doldrum meaning the zone with no winds.
Question 4.
Classify the following under the heading Bank and Non banking financial institu- tions. Development Bank, Mutual Fund Institution, Insurance Companies, Spe- cialised Banks.
Answer:
Banks – Development banks, Specialised Banks
Non banking financial istitutions – Mutual fund institutions, Insurance companies
Question 5.
Nowadays satellite – based tracking sys- tem are used for monitoring the location and movement of objects on the earth’s surface.
1. Write two uses of GPS
2. Which is the satellite based navigation sys- tem developed by India as an alternation to GPS?
Answer:
1)
- For road-rail-water and air transport
- For science and technology development
2) • Indian Regional Naviation Satellite System (IRNSS)
Question 6.
Who were the leaders gave leadership to Salt Satyagraha in Kerala?
Answer:
K. Kelappan – Payyannur
Mohammed Abdu Rahiman – Kozhikode
Question 7.
What do you meant by sovereignty?
Answer:
- Sovereignty denotes freedom of a state from internal as well as external forces of control.
- The supreme or ultimate power of the state to make laws.
Question 8.
Why survey is the most suitable meathod to study sociology?
Answer:
• It helps to formulate a comprehensive point of view of the topic based on the data collected form a group of selected people.
Imnlement 10 + 2 + 3 pttern of education.
II. Answer any six questions from 9 to 15. Each carries 3 scores. (6 × 3 = 18)
Question 9.
Who was the Chairman of the States Reorganisation Commission? What were its recommendations?
Answer:
- Justice Fazal Ali was the Chairman of the states reorganisation commission.
- The parliament passed the states reorganisation Act as the recommendations of the commission.
- The commission recommended for the formation of 14 linguistic states and 6 union territories.
Question 10.
Write any three favourables that helped Mumbai to become the most important cotton textile centre
Answer:
- Easy availability of raw materials from neighbouring regions.
- Cheap availability of power
- Export and import possibilities of the Mumbai port
Question 11.
Evaluate the role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy for the modernisation of Indian Society.
Answer:
- He opposed caste system and Sati.
- He propagated the idea of unified Indian. society, this idea prompted patriotism among the people.
- To improve the status of women, he ad- vocated for the right of women to own property.
Question 12.
Explain the role of news papers in propagating the ideas of Indian national movement.
Answer:
- Criticised the activities of the British government through news papers.
- Newspapers were published in various languages.
- Newspapers are emphasis on nationalism, social reform and democracy.
Question 13.
Complete the word star related to the administrative reforms.
Answer:
Question 14.
Some projects implemented in India to develop education and skills are given below. Write the goals of the projects.
SSA, RMSA, RUSA
Answer:
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
- To ensure universal primary education to all
- To improve educational facilities.
Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
- To ensure access to secondary education
- To improve educational facilities.
Rashtriya Uchthal Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)
- To increase the access to higher educa- tion.
- To improve the quality of higher education.
Question 15.
‘The region was a nightmare for the ancient mariners’
a) The statement is about a pressure belt. Which is the pressure belt?
b) Write the features of the pressure belt?
Answer:
a) Equatorial low pressure belt
b)
- The equatorial low pressure belt is situated between 5° North and South latitudes.
- This is the zone where the Sun’s rays fall vertically throughout the year.
- The air expands due to sun’s heat and rises up on a massive scale.
- As the air in this zone ascends on a large scale, winds are very feable here.
- This pressure belt is also known as ‘doldrum’, meaning the zone with no winds.
III. Answer any nine questions from 16 to 25. Each carries 4 scores. (9 × 4 = 36)
Question 16.
Arrange the following in chronological order.
- Punnapra Vayalar Protest
- Civil disobedience movement
- Cochin Rajya Prajamandalam
- Nivarthana Prakshobham
- Travancore Uniting Kochi
Answer:
- Civil disobedience movement
- Nivarthana Prakshobham
- Cochin Rajya Prajamandalam
- Punnapra Vayalar Protest
- Travancore – uniting Kochi
Question 17.
Write down the uses of topographic maps.
Answer:
- Analysis of the physical and the cultural features of the earth surface.
- For military operations and the preparation of military maps.
- Identification and studying of the natural and the cultural resources of a region as part economic planning.
- For urban planning.
Question 18.
Explain the circumstances lead to miseries of Indigo farmers in India.
Answer:
- Indigo revolts were the resistance made by the indigo farmers.
- The blue paint for making dyes is produced from the indigo plant.
- As per the British demand farmers were forced to cultivate indigo in the fields that were used for the cultivation of food grain.
- With the invention of artifical colours the demand for indigo became obsolete.
- Thus the condition of farmers who had made the major area of their land for the cultivation of Indigo became miserable.
Question 19.
People also participate in constructive programmes along with non corporation movement. Explain?
Answer:
- Spin Khadi cloth using Charka.
- Establish national schools and popularise Hindi.
- Students boycotted English education.
- They were attracted to national education- al institutions.
Question 20.
Link column A with appropriate items in column B.
| A | B |
| • Banihal | Sikkim, Tibet |
| • Shipkila | • Uttarakhand – Tibet |
| • Nathula | • Jammu Srinagar |
| • Lipulekh | • Himachal Pradesh Tibet |
Answer:
| A | B |
| • Banihal | • Jammu – Srinagar |
| Shipkila | • Himachal Pradesh – Tibet |
| • Nathula | • Sikkim, Tibet |
| • Lipulekh | Uttarakhand – Tibet |
Question 21.
Statements relating to the Indian Industry is given below. Findout the suitable names for them and mark in the given outline of India.
a) A cotton textile manufacturing centre in Tamil Nadu.
b) Centre of woollen industry in Karnataka.
c) Silk industrial centre in Uttar Pradesh.
d) A rubber industrial centre in Punjab.
Answer:
Question 22.
What are the features of Himalyan rivers?
Answer:
- Originate from the Himalayan mountain ranges.
- Extensive catchment area.
- Intensive erosion.
- Creat gorges in the mountain region and meander in plains.
- High irrigation potential.
- Navigable along the plains.
Question 23.
Explain the role of morality in fostering civic consciousness.
Answer:
- The most effective way of inculcating civic consciousness is the creation of moral consciousness in all walks of life.
- Morality is essential for the welfare and continuance of society.
- Morality is identifying right and wrong and accepting the right and fulfilling the duties with responsibility.
- Morality helps civic consciousness where as immorality destroys it.
Question 24.
Analyse the model reference grids and answer the following questions.
1. Find the direction of fort with respect to the temple.
2. Locate the temple in six figure grid reference method.
3. Locate the settlements in four figure grid reference method.
Answer:
- West
- 84735
- 8534
Question 25.
Match the following:
| A | B |
| • Lahore session of the congress | • Jayaprakash Narayan |
| • Abhinav Bharat Society | • Bhagat Singh |
| •Hindustan Socialist Republican Association | • Jawaharlal Nehru |
| • Congress So cialist Party | • V.D. Savarkar |
Answer:
| A | B |
| • Lahore session of the congress | • Jawaharlal Nehru |
| • Abhinav Bharat Society | • V.D. Savark- ar |
| •Hindustan So- cialist Republican Association | • Bhagat Singh |
| • Congress So- cialist Party | • Jayaprakash Narayan |
IV. Answer the questions 26 and 27. Each caries 6 scores. (2 × 6 = 12)
Question 26.
Explain the causes of the Russian Revolution.
OR
Evaluate how did Fascism in Italy and Na- zism in Germany defy world peace.
Answer:
Pathetic life of people
- Farmers and factory workers in Russia led a miserable life because of the low agricultural production.
- Landless farmers had to pay huge tax.
Dictatorship of the ruler
- The kings and nobility got all facilities.
- The wokers were like slaves in the industries which are led by the foreigners.
Influence of Marxist ideology
The Marxist ideologies, formulated by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels stirred the workers.
- They called for establishing the supremacy of the workers instead of that by the capitalists.
- Trade unions were formed to find remedies for the plight of the workers.
Formation of Bolshevik Party
- Social Democratic workers party was split into the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks.
- Alexander Kerensky led the Mensheviks.
- The main leaders of the Bolsheviks were Lenin and Trotsky.
- In October 1917, the Bolsheviks organised, an armed rebellion against the provi- sional government.
OR
Italy – Fascism
- Benitto Mussolini gave leadership to the fascist rule in Italy.
- Violence and ferocity.
- Socialists and peasant leaders as enemies.
- Those opposed Fascism were executed.
- Military force – Black shirts.
- Aggressive foreign policy.
- Italy’s imperialist ambition led the nations of the world to the another world war.
Germany – Nazism
- Adolf Hitler gave leadership to Nazism.in Germany.
- Socialists, communists, Jews and Democrats were executed.
- Concentration camps for Jews.
- Military force – Brown Shirts.
- Attacked Austria and Czhekoslovakia,
- Formed military alliance with Italy and Japan.
Question 27.
Answer the following:
a) The longitude which is regarded as the standard meridian of India.
b) Write down the difference between Indian Standard Time and Greenwich Time.
c) What will be the time in 30° east longitude when it is 8.30 am in India?
OR
What are the uses of remote sensin technology?
Answer:
a) 82 1/2°E
b) As India is located to the east of Green- which, the time in India will be 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich mean Time.
c) • The difference between 82 1/2° E and 30°E = 52 1⁄2°E
Time difference for 1° longitude is 4 min- utes.
Time difference for 52 1/2° E longitude
= 52.5 × 4
= 210 minutes
= \(\frac{210}{60}\)
= 3 hours 30 minutes
The time in 30° E is 31⁄2 hours
lower than the time in India
Time in India = 8.30,a.m
Time in 30°E = 81⁄2-31⁄2 = 5 am
OR
- For the assessment of weather and its observations.
- For ocean explorations.
- To understand the land use of an area.
- For the monitering of flood and drought.
- For identifying forest fires in deep forests and to adopt controlling measures.
- To collect data regarding the extent of crops and spread of pest attack.
- For oil explorations.
- To locate ground water potential places.