Cbse Class 10 Social Science Sample Papers 2017 - 2018 Vastreader 23

Cbse Class 10 Social Science Sample Papers 2017 - 2018 Vastreader 23

Class 10 - Social Science

10 Social Science Sample Paper-23

General Instructions:

i. The question paper has 28 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.

ii. Marks are indicated against each question.

iii. Questions from serial number 1 to7 are very short answer type questions. Each question

carries one mark.

iv. Questions from serial number 8 to18 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these questions

should not exceed 80 words each.

v. Questions from serial number 19 to 25 are 5 marks questions. Answer of these questions

should not exceed 100 words each.

vi. Question numbers 26 & 27 are map questions from History with 1 mark each.

vii. Question number 28 is map question of 3 marks from Geography.

viii. For Q. Nos. 26, 27 and 28 (map based questions) one outline political map of India is

provided. After completion the work, attach the map inside your answer book.

ix. Questions at Serial Number - 20, 22, 24 & 25 have Internal Choice. Attempt any one option

out of the given in each of these questions.

1. Who said, “True German culture is to be discovered among common people.”?

OR

Name the areas which came under French control after Franco-Chinese war.

2. Against whom the industrial workers, artisans and peasants revolted in 1848

Europe?

OR

Who was the head of The Revolutionary Society formed by Phan Boi Chau in 1903?

3. What is Pama Dabi?

4. State two main basis of the social divisions in Sri Lanka.

5. Name the sector where more of the people of India employed?

6. Why India has been observing 24th December as the National Consumer’s Day?

7. Name the system by which exchange of goods is done without using the money.

8. What were the impacts of Treaty of Vienna on European people?

OR

What were the causes of the defeat of the French forces in the battle of Dien Bien

Phu?

9. Why was the Non-Cooperation movement withdrawn by Gandhiji?

10. Explain the two types of water erosion.

11. Highlight the facts given by The Citizens’ Fifth Report, CSE, 1999.

12. How political parties raise the chances of social division in the democratic

countries? Explain.

13. What is a political party? What are the components of a political party?

14. How does democracy lead to peaceful and harmonious life among citizens in the

economic sphere?

15. What is meant by Informal Sources of Credit? Mention the drawbacks of this

system.

16. Suppose you are the owner of a multinational chocolate manufacturing company.

Write down the principle you would abide by before marketing your chocolates. x

17. How would income and employment increase if farmers were provided with

irrigation and marketing facilities?

18. Explain how the goals of different persons may sometimes be conflicting.

19. How far is it correct to say that the First World War was the first modern industrial

war? Explain.

OR

Describe any five major problems faced by new European merchants in setting up

their industries in towns before the industrial revolution.

OR

How did the condition of women workers change from nineteenth to twentieth

centuries in London?

20. "Print led to intense controversies between social and religious reformers and

Hindu orthodoxy.” Support the statement with example.

OR

How did the characters like Indulekha and Madhavan inspires the contemporary

generations to strike a balance between the western ideas and Indian traditional

culture.

21. Why there is a need of conservation of minerals?

22. Write a short note on Bauxite, its formation, features and distribution in India.

OR

How do physiographic and economic factors influence the distribution pattern of

Indian railway network? Explain with example.

23. What are the causes responsible for very slow progress of Panchayat Raj System in

India?

24. Can you explain any five challenges and problems faced by Indian Democracy?

OR

What is communalism? What are the major beliefs of communal people?

25. Can you illustrate the features of the New Economic policy introduced in 1991?

OR

In what ways the globalisation affected the life of Sushila?

26. Locate and label the place in the given outline political map of India:

Place where Jallianwala Bhag Incident took place.

27. Locate and label the place in the given outline political map of India: Place where

Gandhiji violated the Salt Law.

28. A. Two features A and B are marked in the given political 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.

1. A Coal Mine

2. Nuclear Power Plant

B. Locate and Labe Mangalore iron ore exporting port with appropriate symbols

on the same map given for identification

Class 10 - Social Science

10 Social Science Sample Paper-23

Solution

1. Johann Gottfried Herder said the above line.

OR

Tonkin and Anaam came under French control after Franco-Chinese war.

2. The industrial workers, artisans and peasants revolted against monarchy in 1848 in

Europe.

OR

Prince Cuong De was the head of The Revolutionary Society formed by Phan Boi

Chau in 1903.

3. Pama Dabi is another name of slash and burn agriculture in Odisha.

4. Religion and Language

5. Primary Sector.

6. 24th December is observed as the National Consumer’s Day because it was on this

day that the Indian Parliament enacted the Consumer Protection Act in 1986.

7. Barter System

8. Representatives of the European power, Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria signed

treaty of Vienna in 1815. Following were its impact on the European people:

i. Deposed Bourbon dynasty was restored to power. Future expansion of French

was prevented.

ii. Prussia was given new important territories on its Western frontier, while

Austria was given control of the Northern Italy.

iii. In the east, Russia was given part of Poland while Prussia was given a portion of

Saxony.

iv. The treaty slowed down the growth of nationalism. There was an effort to

restore Monarchies that had been overthrown by Napoleon and to create a new

conservative order in Europe.

OR

Following are the causes of the defeat of the French forces in the battle of Dien Bien

Phu:

i. The valley where the French garrisons were located was flooded in the

monsoons which made it impossible for the French forces and tanks to move.

ii. The whole area was covered with bushes and jungles making it difficult for the

French air forces to trace the anti-aircraft guns hidden in the bushes and the

jungles.

iii. In 1954 the Viet Minh surrounded 12,000 French troops and inflicted upon them

a crushing defeat at the fortress of Dien Bien Phu.

9. A. The movement was turning violent.

B. At Chauri-Chaura in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, a peaceful demonstration in

bazaar turned into a violent clash in which more than 20 policemen were killed.

C. Gandhiji also felt that Satyagraha is needed to be properly trained before they

would be ready for mass movement.

10. The two types of water erosion are:

i. Sheet Erosion: When the top layer of the soil is removed over a large area by the

running water, it is called as sheet erosion. In such cases the top soil is washed

away.

ii. Gully Erosion: The running water cuts through the clayey soils and makes deep

channels as gullies. The land becomes unfit for cultivation and is known as bad

land. In Chambal basin such lands are called ravines.

11. The Citizens’ Fifth Report, CSE, 1999 stated the following facts:

i. India’s rivers, especially the smaller ones, have all turned into toxic streams.

ii. Even the big ones like the Ganga and Yamuna are far from being pure.

iii. The assault on India’s rivers - from population growth, agricultural

modernization to urbanization and industrialization - is enormous and growing

day by day.

iv. This entire life stands threatened.

12. A. Political parties often refer to these social divisions and make political promises

based on the size of the division.

B. Political parties represent various social groups.

C. Political parties address the grievances of the socially disadvantaged groups.

D. People’s preference for political parties and voting pattern are influenced by the

issue of social divisions.

13. Political Party:

A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and

hold power in the government. Always political parties take some policies and

programmes for the society with a view to promote the collective good.

There are different views on what is good for the society and people. Every political

party wants to persuade people why their policies are better than other parties, and

tries to win the suppott of people.

Three Components of a Political Party are:

i. The Leaders: Every political party has some prominent leaders who formulate

policies and programmes of the party and choose candidates for contesting

elections.

ii. The Active Members: They are involved in different committees of the party and

participate directly in their activity.

iii. The Followers: They believe in the party’s ideology and support the party by

casting their votes in favour of the party at the time of election.

14. A. Democracy stands for equal economic status to all citizens.

B. In a democracy, every citizen has right to do any profession.

C. In a democracy, government undertakes extensive social welfare schemes and

achieve universal economic growth rate.

D. Democracy government took so many welfare schemes to remove poverty.

15. A. Informal source of credit includes the credit from money lenders, friends,

traders, employers and relatives. There are no rules and regulations of

government are applied on these institutions.

B. These institutions charge very high interest rates or debtor has to surrender

their asset to pay the debt back.

C. There is no govt organization to supervise the functioning of these sources of

credit.

D. The sources of credit some time use unfair means to get their money back.

16. As an owner of a multinational chocolate manufacturing company. I should

endeavour to abide by certain principle before marketing my product (chocolates).

Like:

i. As a company we would follow the safety rules and regulations prescribed by

the government.

ii. We would provide the detail information on the packing of our product like-

Ingredients, Maximum Retail Price; batch number, date of manufacturing, date

of expiry.

iii. We would also provide our address.

iv. We should also write our consumer help line number on the packing.

v. We should use an environment friendly packaging material.

17. i. The government can spend some money or banks can provide loans to construct

wells to irrigate the land of poor farmers.

ii. Government can develop tourism or regional craft industries. It would

encourage the small farmers to get additional income.

iii. Suppose a new dam is constructed and canals are dug to irrigate many farms,

this could lead to lot of employment generation within the agricultural sector

itself reducing the problem of underemployment.

iv. Poor farmers need seeds, fertilizers, and agricultural equipments. If the local

banks give them credit at reasonable rate of interest, they will be able to buy

them in time and cultivate their land.

v. Another way, by which we can tackle this problem, is to identify, promote and

locate industries and services in semi-rural areas where a large number of

people may be employed.

18. It is possible that different people may seek things which are conflicting to each

other. For instance, in a factory, workers seek higher wages. However, factory

owners seek more profit and want to extract more work from workers at lower

wages. Hence, both parties seek conflicting goals.

19. The First World War can be said to be the first modern industrial war because of the

following reasons:

i. The fighting involved the world’s leading industrial nations which then

harnessed the vast powers of modern industry to inflict the greatest possible

destruction on their enemies.

ii. It saw the use of machineguns, tanks, aircrafts, and chemical weapons on a

massive scale. These were all increasingly products of modern large-scale

industry.

iii. The scale of death and destruction was vast, that is nine million dead and twenty

million injured.

iv. Such a massive destruction was unthinkable before the industrial age, without

the use of industrial arms.

v. During the war, industries were restricted to produce war-related goods.

OR

Due to expansion of world trade, the merchants wanted to expand their production.

But the major problems faced by new European merchants in setting up their

industries in towns before the industrial revolution were:

i. Urban crafts and trade guilds were very powerful. They could create many

problems for the merchants in their towns.

ii. These associations of producers that trained craftspeople, maintained control

over production, regulated competition and prices, and restricted the entry of

new people into the trade.

iii. Rulers had granted the monopoly rights to different guild to produce and trade

in specific products.

iv. In the countryside, peasants and artisans were available for work.

OR

Earlier in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries factories employed large

numbers of women. But with technological development, women lost their

industrial jobs and had to take up work within household jobs. The 1861 census

recorded a quarter of a million domestic servants in London, of whom the vast

majority was women; many of them were recent migrants. A large number of

women use their homes to increase family income by taking in lodgers or through

such activities. Later, women of London during twentiethcentury took up tailoring,

washing, matchbox making, etc. However, there was a change once again in the

twentieth century as women got employment in war time industries and offices,

they withdrew from domestic service.

20. Print led to intense controversies between social and religious reformers and Hindu

orthodoxy over matters like widow immolation, monotheism, brahmanical

priesthood and idolatry.

i. In Bengal as the debate developed tracts and newspapers proliferated

circulating a variety of arguments.

ii. To reach a wider audience, the ideas were printed in the everyday spoken

language of local people.

iii. Raja Rammohan Roy published the ‘Sambad Kaumud’ from 1821 and the Hindu

orthodoxy commissioned the ‘Samachar Chandrika' to oppose the opinions of

Rammohan Roy.

iv. From 1822 two Persian newspapers were published, ‘Jam-i-Jahan Nama' and

'Shamsul Akhba'.

OR

In Indulekha, the protagonist she is portrayed as a woman of breath-taking beauty,

high intellectual abilities, and artistic talent and with an educatio n in Sanskrit and

English. The heroine rejects the foolish landlord and chooses the handsome and

educated lower-caste Madhavan. Madhavan, the hero, is a member of the English

educated class of Nayars from the University of Madras. He was also a first rate

Sanskrit Scholar. He dressed in western clothes but he kept the long tuft of hair

according to the Nayar customs. They both get married and he joins the civil

services. Western way of living was attractive but the wholesome adopting of

western values would destroy traditional ways of living. This way Indulekha and

Madhavan inspires the contemporary generations to strike a balance between the

western ideas and Indian traditional culture.

21. 1. The total Volume of workable mineral deposits in an insignificant fraction i.e. one

percent of the earth’s crust.

2. We are rapidly consuming mineral resources that required millions of years to be

created and concentrated.

3. The geological processes of mineral formation are so slow that the rates of

replenishment are infinitely small in comparison to the present rates of

consumption.

4. Mineral resources are finite and non renewable.

5. Mining of minerals causes great threat to the environment and health of the

human beings.

6. Due to the above discussed reasons it is necessary to conserve the minerals and

use them in a judicious way.

22. Bauxite is a clay-like substance from which alumina and later aluminium is

obtained. Aluminium is an important metal because it combines the strength of

metals such as iron, with extreme lightness and also with good conductivity and

great malleable ability.

Formation: Bauxite deposits are formed by the decomposition of a wide variety of

rocks rich in aluminium silicates.

Distribution:

i. Bauxite is found in the Amarkantak Plateau, Maikal Hills and the plateau region

of Bilaspur-Katni.

ii. Odisha is the largest bauxite producing state in India.

iii. Panchpatmali deposits in Koraput district are the most important bauxite

deposits in the state.

iv. 45 per cent of the country’s total production in 2000-01 was in Odisha.

OR

The physiographic and economic factors influence the distribution pattern of Indian

railway network to great extent. For example:

i. The level and extensive northern plains with high density of population, high

industrial activity and rich agriculture, favour development of railways.

However, the wide rivers that flow here cannot be crossed without bridges

which become an additional cost for railways.

ii. The high relief, sparse population and lack of economic opportunities in the

Himalayan region create unfavorable conditions for laying the railway lines.

Frequent landslides and rock fall are additional problem.

iii. The peninsular regions with their hilly terrains also make it different to lay

railway tracks. In such areas, railway tracks have to be laid through low hills or

gaps or tunnels.

iv. The low flood plains of Assam and Bihar, where floods are common, have

difficulty in maintaining railway lines.

v. The sandy plain of western Rajasthan and the hilly tracks of the Sahayadris were

unfavorable for development of railways.

vi. Likewise, it was difficult to lay railway lines on swamps of Gujarat, forested

tracks of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand.

23. Lack of awareness: The lack of awareness and conceptual clarity is one of the

reason of slow success of Panchayat Raj. Some people treat it just as an

administrative agency, some as an intention of democracy at grass root level

and some treat it as a charter of rural, local government.

Irregular election: Election should hold in a gap of five years, but still

irregularity is there to helding the elections.

Relationship of government officials and elected representatives: All work of

the Panchayat Raj System is being done by the government officials, but

contradiction always comes in between government officials and elected

representatives and then it progresses very slowly.

Lack of money and other support: The Panchayat Raj institutions lack enough

money, administrative support and help from the government officials.

That’s why its progress rate is very slow.

Most state governments havenot transferred sinificant powers to the local

governments.

24. A. Challenge of expansion: Indian democracy is facing the challenge of expansion.

This challenge of Indian democracy involves the practical aspects like-ensuring

grater power to local governments, an extension of federal principals to all the

units of the federation, the inclusion of women and minority groups.

B. The problem of Casteism: Casteism playing a major role in the Indian politics.

There are many castes based pressure groups and interest groups. All these

influences those who are in power. Casteism is also harmful to the unity of the

country.

C. The problem of Communalism: Communalism has also is the negative

implication in Indian Politics. It leads to intolerance, suspicion, and fear towards

members of the other communities. Besides this, there are various types of

communal violence in the society.

D. The problem of Corruption: This problem of Indian democracy is related to the

criminal record and personal possession of politicians. Corruption is an obstacle

to the development of Indian economy.

E. The problem of Criminalization: Money and muscle power is used during

elections. Here is a lack of electoral ethics and insufficient representation of

various sections of society like minorities and women.

OR

A. Communalism is a situation when a particular community tries to promote its

own interests at the cost of other communities.

B. Communal politics is based on the idea that religion is the principal basis of

social community.

C. The followers of a particular religion must belong to one community. Their

fundamental interests should be the same. Any difference that they have, is

irrelevant.

D. Communalism also includes that people who follow different religions have

some commonalities. These are superficial and immaterial. Their interests are

bound to be different and involve a conflict.

E. Sometimes communalism leads to the belief that people belonging to different

religions cannot live as equal citizens within one nation.

25. Following are the features of New Economic Policy introduced in 1991:

a. Liberalized policy towards foreign trade and foreign investment.

b. Introduction of foreign capital investment.

c. Removal of trade barriers.

d. Reduction in the role of Public sector.

e. Promotion to private sector.

f. Reforms in the financial sector.

g. Liberalization of import licensing.

h. Freedom is given to the MNCs to set up their industrial units.

OR

Sushila has spent many years as a worker in garment export industry in Delhi. She

was employed as a 'permanent worker' entitled to health insurance, provident fund,

over time at durable rate.

a. In 1990 her factory was closed due to the introduction of new economy policy

which was introduced by the Indian Government. She becomes unemployed.

b. After searching a job for six months, she finally got a job 30 km away from her

home.

c. Even working in this factory for several years, she was a temporary worker and

earned less than half of what she was earning earlier.

d. She left her house every morning, seven days a week at 7:30 a.m. and returns at

10 p.m. A day off from work means no wage.

e. Sushila no longer got the protection and benefits she used to get earlier.

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