Cbse Class 10 Social Science Sample Papers 2017

Cbse Class 10 Social Science Sample Papers 2017 - 2018 Vastreader 26

Class 10 - Social Science

10 Social Science Sample Paper-26

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. Name the area which was ruled by Habsburg Empire.

When was Francis Garnier commissioned by French to establish control over

Vietnam?

2. Who was Count Cavour?

Name the countries which comprise Indo-China.

3. Name two important wheat growing zones of India?

4. Which two languages are generally spoken in Belgium?

5. Why is tertiary sector also termed as service sector?

6. What is Central Level Consumer Courts?

7. Give one reason to deposit money in the banks.

8. Which three issues were visualized by Frederic Sorrieu?

Who were indentured labourers? Elaborate the working condition of indentured

labourers?

9. What was the contribution of Natesa Shartri for the revival of folklore and folk

tales? What were his views?

10. Suggest some ways to solve the problems of land degradation.

11. What are the significances of the ports of India’s economy?

12. Explain the positive impact of social division on politics?

13. Write down the names of regional political parties dominant in Andhra Pradesh,

Karnataka and West Bengal.

14. "Democracies lead to peaceful and harmonious life among citizens.” Support this

statement with suitable arguments.

15. “Money plays very important role in our everyday life” Explain.

16. Explain the steps taken by government to protect the consumers from exploitation?

17. Explain with suitable examples that which part of the service sector is not growing

in importance.

18. What is development? What are the two aspects of development?

19. Why have the historians described the nineteenth century indentured as a ‘new

system of slavery’? Explain any five reasons.

Why did the poor peasants and artisans in the countryside begin to work for the

merchants from the towns?

Give reasons why the population of London expanded from the middle of the

eighteenth century.

20. Explain the different stages of development of printing technology in China.

Outline the changes in technology and society which led to an increase in readers of

novels in 18th century Europe.

21. Explain the different stages in the process of manufacturing of steel.

22. How would you classify the types of coal depending on the degrees of compression?

Explain the features of any five eastern ports of India.

23. In what way is the Panchayat Raj experiment significant? Explain.

24. Suggest some reform proposals to overcome the challenge of Political Funding.

Assess the influence of politics on the caste system.

25. Why is it important for Government to focus on the protection of unemployed and

those who are working in unorganized sector?

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

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

where Congress Session was held in September 1920.

27. Locate and label the place on the given outline political map of India: The place

where no tax campaign was started.

28. A feature is shown by an alphabet A on the given political map of India. Identify and

write the correct name of this feature on the line drawn on the map as per the given

hint.

1. A Dam

B. On the same map of India locate and label the following items with appropriate

symbols:

1. A Dam on River Narmada

2. A Dam on River Tungabhadra

Class 10 - Social Science

10 Social Science Sample Paper-26

Solution

1. The Habsburg Empire ruled over Austria-Hungary.

In 1873 Francis Garnier was commissioned by French to establish control over

Vietnam.

2. Count Cavour was the chief minister of Italy. He led the movement to unify the

regions of Italy.

Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam comprises Indo-China.

3. The Ganga-Sutlej plains in the north and black soil region in the Deccan are the two

important wheat growing zones of India.

4. French and Dutch.

5. The tertiary sector is termed as service sector because tertiary sector provides

support service to primary sectors and secondary sectors.

6. These are courts which settle consumer disputes at national level. Central level

consumer courts deals with the cases involving claims exceeding Rs 1 crore.

7. To save money and to earn interest.

8. Frederic Sorrieu was a French artist who prepared a series of four prints visualizing

his dreams of a world.

i. The first print of the series shows the people of Europe and America of the ages

and social classes marching in a long train. They are offering homage to the

statue of Liberty as they pass by it.

ii. His second vision named utopian vision, the people of the world are grouped as

distinct nations, identify through their flags and national costume.

iii. On the earth in the foreground of the image lie the shattered remains of the

symbols of absolutist institutions. His work shows his dream on democratic and

social republics.

Indentured labourers worked on the basis of contracts that did not specify any

rights of labourers but gave immense power to employers. It was the form of labour

widely used in the plantations from the mid-nineteenth century. Their working

conditions were very miserable as the employers could impose criminal charges

against them for non-fulfilment of their contracts. On the basis of those charges they

could be punished and jailed. The labourers worked on the basis of contracts that

did not specify any rights of the labourers and gave immense power to employers.

9. Ideas of nationalism developed through a movement to revive Indian folklore. In

the late-nineteenth-century India, nationalists began recording folk tales sung by

bards and they toured villages to gather folk songs and legends.

In Madras, Natesa Shastri published a massive four-volume collection of Tamil folk

tales, the Folklore of Southern India.

A. He believed that folklore was national literature;

B. It was most trustworthy manifestation of people’s real thought and

characteristics

10. The problem of land degradation can be solved in the following ways:

i. Afforestation and proper management of grazing can help to some extent to

solve the problem of land degradation.

ii. Planting of shelter belts of plants, control on over grazing, stabilization of sand

dunes by growing thorny bushes is some of the methods to check land

degradation.

iii. Proper management of waste lands, control of mining activities, proper

discharge and disposal of industrial effluents and wastes after treatment can

reduce land and water degradation in industrial and suburban areas.

11. Ports have following significance in on national economy:

i. Most of India’s trade with foreign countries is carried from the ports located

along the coast.

ii. This account for 95 per cent of the country’s trade volume (68 per cent in terms

of value) which is being carried through sea.

iii. Kandla port, Mumbai port, Vishakhapatnam port, Chennai port are the major

ports of our countries.

12. A. Every expression of social division in politics does not lead to disasters because

wherever social divisions exist, they are reflected in politics. In many countries,

there are parties that focus only on one community, e.g., D.M.K., AIADMK and

BSP in India.

B. Social divisions of some of the other kind do exist in every society of the world

and are reflected in politics.

C. In a democracy, it is only natural that political parties would talk about these

divisions, make different promises to different communities, look after due

representation of various communities and policies to redress the grievance of

disadvantaged communities.

13. A. Andhra Pradesh- Telgu Desam Party (1982), Telangana Rashtra Sammiti(2001)

B. Karnataka- Janata Dal (secular)1999

C. West Bengal- Forward Bloc (1940), Revolutionary Socialist Party (1940),

Trinamool Congress (1977).

14. Democracy develops a harmonious social life. Democracies accommodate various

social divisions. Democracies usually develop a procedure to conduct their

competition. This reduces the possibility of these tensions becoming explosive or

violent. In democracies, people learn to respect the differences and also evolve a

mechanism to negotiate the differences. The majority always needs to work with the

minority so that government functions to represent the general view. Democracy

has the ability to handle social differences, divisions and conflict.

Non-democratic regimes often turn a blind eye to or suppress internal social

differences. Ability to handle social differences, divisions and conflicts is thus, a

definite plus point of democratic regimes.

15. The use of money plays a very important role in our everyday life. No transaction is

possible without the use of money. Goods are bought and sold with the use of

money. The objective of each and every person is to earn money to fulfill their daily

needs. If we want to purchase any thing whether it is small or large we need money.

16. Since consumers are exploited by the sellers and manufacturers therefore consumer

awareness has become inevitable in today's time. Individual consumers often find

themselves in a weak position in the market. The seller tries to shift all the

responsibilities on the buyer in case of complaint. Besides, sellers make false claims

about the durability and quality of their products through attractive advertisement.

Moreover, adulteration causes loss to the health and they suffer from monetary loss.

17. There are a large number of workers in the service sector who rarely manage to

earn a living and yet they perform these services because no alternative

opportunities for work are available to them, e.g., workers engaged in the service

sector such as small shopkeepers, repair persons, transport persons, cattle owners.

They are facing so many problems from the MNCs. Therefore this part of the service

sector is not growing in importance.

18. Development is such a situation that can fulfil the aspirations or desires of people. It

is the progress or improvement in the lifestyle of the people. Two aspects of

development are:

i. Different persons can have different developmental goals.

ii. What may be development for one may not be development for the other.

19. The historians have often described the nineteenth century indentured as a ‘new

system of slavery’ because it wa a practice of bonded labourer under contract to

work for an employer for a specific amount of time, to pay off his passage to a new

country or home. Most of the time the labourers were misinformed and were

subjected to oppressive treatment. In this system:

i. Recruiting agents gave false information to tempt the labourers.

ii. Labourers were some time, forcibly abducted.

iii. On arriving at the plantation, they found the conditions to be different from but

they had imagined.

iv. Their living conditions were very harsh.

v. Their payments were very little. Deductions were made from wages if the work

was found unsatisfactory. The workers had no legal rights.

The poor peasants and artisans in the countryside began to work for the merchants

from the towns because of the following reasons:

i. Open fields were disappearing and commons were being enclosed.

ii. Tiny plots of land did not provide enough for the family.

iii. By working for merchants, peasants could remain in the countryside and

cultivate their land.

iv. Income from proto-industrial production supplemented their income from

cultivation.

v. The family labour resources could be fully used.

The population of London expanded drastically from the middle of the eighteenth

century. Its population was about 6, 75,000 by 1750s which multiplied fourfold from

one million in 1810 to four million in 1880s. The reasons for this expansion were:

i. London had become a centre of almost all sections of society.

ii. People from countryside came to London for better job and future.

iii. Wooden, metal, printing, stationary and other such industries in London

employed a large number of people.

iv. London dockyard also attracted a large number of employees.

v. During the First World War, many more things were begun to be manufactured

in London including motor cars, electrical goods, and large factories

manufacturing war materials.

20. The different stages of development of printing technology in China are:

i. From 594 AD the books were printed by rubbing paper against the inked surface

of woodblocks in China.

ii. The imperial state also got many textbooks printed for the civil services

examination.

iii. By the seventeenth century urban culture developed in China. Merchants used

print in their everyday life as they collected trade information.

iv. Wives of rich men, scholars and officials also began to write their

autobiographies.

v. In the late nineteenth century, the mechanical printing press was established.

vi. Shanghai became a hub of the new print culture.

The changes in technology and society which led to an increase in readers of the

novel in eighteenth century Europe were manifold.

A. The invention of the print in eighteenth century led to popularity of novels

because now it became quite easy to print novels because now it became quite

easy to print novels in large numbers.

B. The novels dealt with many social issues, such as love, marriage, proper conduct

of men and women. Common people attracted towards them.

C. Novels appealed to all the sections of the society both middle class people like

shopkeepers and clerks, as well as aristocratic class.

D. Novels not only attacked the ills of society, but also suggested remedies. So they

were liked by all.

E. The novels became popular medium of entertainment among the middle class

and women readers.

F. The creation of libraries, cost-cutting printing techniques and hiring out of books

on an hourly basis allowed readership to expand beyond the aristocratic class.

G. Socially, as the market for books grew, novelists were freed of aristocratic

patronage, and could now explore different dimensions of the society in their

novels, for example, the lives of women and the working class.

All this led to an obvious increase in the number of people who read books in

eighteenth-century Europe.

21. The different stages in manufacturing of steel are as follows:

i. Iron Ore: Transport of raw material to plant.

ii. Blast Furnace: Iron ore is then melted. Lime stone is fluxing material which is

added. Slag is removed. Coke is burnt to heat the ore.

iii. Pig Iron: Molten materials poured into moulds called pigs.

iv. Shaping Metal: Rolling, pressing, casting and forging.

v. Steel making: Pig iron is further purified by melting and oxidizing the

impurities. Manganese, nickel, chromium are added.

22. Following are the types of coal depending upon the degree of compression:

i. Peat: Decaying plants in swamps produced peat, which has a low carbon and

high moisture contents. It has very low heating capacity.

ii. Lignite: Lignite is a low grade brown coal, which is soft with high moisture

content. The principal lignite reserves are in Neyveli in Tamil Nadu and used for

generation of electricity.

iii. Bituminous: Coal that has been buried deep and subjected to increased

temperature is bituminous coal. It is the most popular coal in commercial use.

Metallurgical coal is high grade bituminous coal which has a special value

for smelting iron in blast furnace.

iv. Anthracite: It is highest quality of hard coal.

Five major eastern ports of India are:

i. Tuticorin Port: Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu is located at the extreme south-eastern

end of the country. It has a natural harbour and a rich hinterland. It handles

cargoes to Sri Lanka and Maldives.

ii. Chennai Port: Chennai is the one of the oldest ports of Tamil Nadu and has an

artificial harbour. It ranks next to Mumbai, in terms of volume of trade and

cargo.

iii. Vishakhapatnam Port: Vishakhapatnam is the deepest; landlocked and protected

port on the east coast.

iv. Paradip Port: Paradip port in located Odisha. It is in mainly developed to export

of iron ore.

v. Kolkata Port: Kolkata is a major inland riverine and a tidal port. This port serves

a very large and rich hinterland of Ganga- Brahmaputra basin.

23. A. There are now about 36 lakhs elected representatives in the panchayat and

municipalities all over the country.

B. There is reservation for women, SC and ST in these bodies.

C. This number is bigger than the population of many countries in the world.

D. Constitutional status for local government has helped to deepen democracy in

our country.

E. It has also increased women’s representation and voice in our democracy.

24. Reform proposals to overcome the challenge of Political Funding:

i. Role of money in elections in India has been increasing for the last few years. It

is necessary to curb the role of money to make democracy more successful.

ii. Auditing of account of the political parties and state funding are good reform

proposals. These reforms will bring transparency in the finances of the political

parties.

iii. There should be state funding which will reduce the expenditure on elections.

Role of money will be less and poor people may also be able to contest elections.

iv. Election Commission should work honestly while checking the income taxes

filed by the political parties.

v. Citiens should be encouraged to give more donations to parties. such donations

should be exempted from income tax.

A. Each caste group tries to become bigger by incorporating within its sub-castes.

B. Various caste groups are required to enter into a coalition with other castes or

communities.

C. New kinds of caste groups have entered politics like backward and forward

castes.

D. Politics in caste has allowed many disadvantaged caste groups to demand their

share of power.

E. Caste politics has helped the Dalits and OBCs to gain better access to decisionmaking.

Thus, caste plays different kinds of roles in politics. Several political and nonpolitical

organisations have been demanding and agitating for an end to

discrimination against particular castes, for more dignity and more accesses to land,

resources and opportunities.

25. Due to following factors it is important for Government to focus on the protection of

unemployed and those who are working in unorganized sector.

a. Government has to ensure equality among rich and poor citizens of the

countries.

b. Citizens are the important assets of the countries. So it is the duty of government

to take care of its citizens.

c. Unemployment will cause anarchy in the country.

d. Massive campaigns and representation by people’s organization have influenced

the government.

e. For the welfare of labour and those who are working in unorganized sector,

Government has made labour laws. So it is the duty of government to follow

those laws.

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.

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