CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 Social Science Paper 1

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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 Social Science Paper 1

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Time: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 80

General Instructions

(i) The question paper has 27 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Marks are indicated against each question.
(iii) Questions from serial number 1 to 7 are very short answer questions. Each question carries 1 mark.
(iv) Questions from serial number 8 to 18 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 number 26 and 27 are map questions of 2 marks from History and 3 marks from Geography. After completion, attach the maps inside the answer book.

Questions

Question 1:
What was Fire Decree?

Question 2:
Which British administrator killed 400 tigers in India?
OR
Name two grazing lands that turned into game reserves in Tanzania.
OR
What was the contribution of Cyrus McCormick in the history of US Agrarian Revolution?

Question 3:
Define the term ‘election’.

Question 4:
What is Gondwanaland?

Question 5:
What is life expectancy of an average Indian according to 2013 report?

Question 6:
Examine the new goal of UN on International Poverty.

Question 7:
Why is there significant decline of poverty in the state of Kerala?

Question 8:
Explain what happened to the lives of local communities when British Government started regulating the trade in the Madras Presidency?
OR
Explain the social changes that took place in the Maasai society.
OR
Who was Captain Swing? And point out significance of the letters written to the farmers with the name of Captain Swing in the Agricultural History of England.

Question 9:
Analyse the importance of the historical blunder committed by Hitler during the second World War.

Question 10:
Describe the manner in which Serbian majority denied the Albanian minority of their rights in Kosovo.

Question 11:
Differentiate between Democratic and Non- Democratic Government.

Question 12:
What are the rules and procedures kept in mind by the police before arresting a citizen?

Question 13:
The latitudinal and the longitudinal extent of the country is almost the same in degrees, i.e., 30°, but in kilometres the North-South extent is more than the East -west extent. Why?

Question 14:
Name the state with lowest density of population. Mention any two reasons responsible for low density of population.

Question 15:
Examine the aims and programme of Prime Minister Rozgar Yozana (PMRY).

Question 16:
Define the concept of “poverty line”. What is the poverty line in India?

Question 17:
Why are farmers able to grow three different crops in a year in Palampur?

Question 18:
‘Many other socio-cultural and economic factors also are responsible for poverty’. Explain.

Question 19:
Discuss the policies adopted by the Bourbon family under the king Louis XVI that paved the way for the Revolution.

Question 20:
Prepare a short history of the people of Bastar.
OR
‘Pastoralists reacted to changes brought about by the colonial rule in India a variety of ways’. Discuss.
OR
Examine the steps taken to meet with the increasing demand of food grains due to the increase in population in 19th Century England.

Question 21:
How was-the institutional design formed for the Indian Constitution?

Question 22:
Why is it necessary to check and regulate the activities of political parties and leaders in an election?

Question 23:
‘The social composition along with the inability to buy food also plays a role in food insecurity’. Point out such social groups that are food insecure.

Question 24:
Distinguish between West flowing and East flowing rivers.

Question 25:
Give an account of the Himalayan rivers of India.

Question 26:
On the given outline map of the World, locate and label the countries known as Allied Powers in the second World War in 1942.

Question 27:
(A) On the given same political outline map of India locate and label/identify the following with appropriate symbols:
(i) Identify the plateau
(ii) Label and locate the mountain peak: Mt. K-2
(iii) Label and locate the northernmost latitudinal extent of India with latitudinal value.

Answers

Answer 1:
The Fire Decree of 28 February 1933 indefinitely suspended civic rights like freedom of speech, press and assembly that had been guaranteed by the Weimar constitution.

Answer 2:
A British administrator, George Yule, killed 400 tigers.
OR
Large areas of grazing land were also turned into game reserves like the Maasai Mara and Samburu National Park in Kenya and Serengeti Park in Tanzania.
OR
In 1831, Cyrus McCormick invented the first mechanical reaper which could cut in one day as much as five men could cut with cradles and 16 men with sickles.

Answer 3:
Election is a mechanism by which people can choose their representatives at regular intervals and change them if they wish to do so.

Answer 4:
It is the southern part of the ancient super-continent Pangea with Angara Land in the northern part.

Answer 5:
67.5 years.

Answer 6:
The new sustainable development goal’s of the United Nations (UN) proposes ending poverty of all types by 2030.

Answer 7:
Kerala has focused more on human resource development.

Answer 8:

1.  The British government gave many large European trading firms the sole right to trade in the forest products of particular areas.
2. Grazing and hunting by local people were restricted. In the process, many pastoralist and nomadic communities like the Korava, Karacha and Yerukula of the Madras Presidency lost their livelihoods.
3. Some of them began to be called criminal tribes, and were forced to work instead in factories, mines and plantations, under government supervision.

OR

1. The social changes in Maasai society occurred at two levels. First, the traditional difference based on age, between the elders and warriors, was disturbed, though it did not break down entirely.
2. Second, a new distinction between the wealthy and poor pastoralists developed.

OR

1. Captain Swing was a mythic name used in the letters written to the farmers in the month of June-August 1830.
2. Farmers received threatening letters signed by Captain Swing urging them to stop using machines that deprived workmen of their livelihood. Alarmed landlords feared attacks by armed bands at night, and many destroyed their own machines.
3. Government action was severe. Those suspected of rioting were rounded’up.

Answer 9:
(i) Hitler in order to achieve his long-term aim of conquering Eastern Europe. He wanted to ensure food supplies and living space for Germans. He attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941.
(ii) In this historic blunder Hitler exposed the German western front to British aerial bombing and the eastern front to the powerful Soviet armies. The Soviet Red Army inflicted a crushing and humiliating defeat on Germany at Stalingrad.
(iii) After this the Soviet Red Army hounded out the retreating German soldiers until they reached the heart of Berlin, establishing Soviet hegemony over the entire Eastern Europe for half a century thereafter.

Answer 10:
(i) Kosovo was a province of Yugoslavia before its split and as of 2007 it was a part of Serbia. Kosovo has an Albanian majority but in the entire country Serbs were in majority.
(ii) Milosevic, the then President of Serbia was hostile to Albanians in Kosovo and he wanted Serbians to dominate the country.
(iii) Many Serb leaders thought that Albanians should leave the country or accept the dominance of Serbs. Working under Milosevic who came to power by democratic election, Serbian military massacred thousands of Albanians in Kosovo. (Now Kosovo is an independent country).

Answer 11:
Democratic Government:

1. It is a form of Government in which the rulers are elected by the people.
2. People have a say in the decision making of the Government.
3. There are fundamental rights in it.
4. There is dignity of human beings in it.

Non- Democratic Government:

1.  It is a form of Government in which rulers are not elected by the people.
2.  People have no say in the decision making of the Government.
3. There are only fundamental duties in it.
4. There is no dignity of human beings in it.

Answer 12:
(i) A person who is arrested and detained in custody will have to be informed of the reasons for such arrest and detention.
(ii) A person who is arrested and detained shall be produced before the nearest magistrate within a period of 24 hours of arrest.
(iii) Such a person has the right to consult a lawyer or engage a lawyer for his defence.

Answer 13:
(i) The distance between any two consecutive latitudes is 111 km approximately, as we move
away from the equator towards the poles.
(ii) But the distance between two consecutive longitudes decreases as we move away from the equator to the poles. Reason- longitudes are drawn from North pole to the South Pole.
(iii) The distance between the East -West extent is (3000 km approximately) is lesser than the North-South extent in km (3200km approximately).

Answer 14:

1. Lowest density of population: Arunachal Pradesh
2. Reasons:
   • Rugged terrain: The land is not suitable for cultivation and other activities.
   • Unfavourable climatic condition: Climate is either too hot or too rainy. Therefore, lesser number of people live in these areas.

Answer 15:
Prime Minister Rozgar Yozana (PMRY) was started in 1993. The aim of the programme is to create self-employment opportunities for educated unemployed youth in rural areas and small towns. They are helped in setting up small business and industries.

Answer 16:
(i) A common method used to measure poverty is based on the income or consumption levels.
A person is considered poor if his or her income or consumption level falls below a given “minimum level” necessary to fulfill basic needs.
(ii) The accepted average calorie requirement in India is 2400 calories per person per day in rural areas and 2100 calories per person per day in urban areas.
(iii) The monetary expenditure per capita needed for buying these calorie requirements in terms of food grains etc. is revised periodically taking into consideration the rise in prices. On the basis of these calculations, for the year 2011-12, the poverty line for a person was fixed at Rs 816 per month for the rural areas and Rs 1000 for the urban areas.

Answer 17:
(i) The main reason for farmers able to grow three different crops in a year in Palampur is due to well-developed system of irrigation.
(ii) Electricity came early to Palampur.
(iii) Persian wheels were till then used by farmers to draw water from the wells and irrigate small fields, and that the electric run tube wells could irrigate much larger areas of land more effectively. The first few tube wells were installed by the government.

Answer 18:
(i) In order to fulfil social obligations and observe religious ceremonies, people in India, including the very poor, spend a lot of money.
(ii) Small farmers need money to buy agricultural inputs like seeds, fertilizer, pesticides etc. Since poor people hardly have any savings, they borrow.
(iii) Unable to repay because of poverty, they become victims of indebtedness. So the high level of indebtedness is both the cause and effect of poverty.

Answer 19:
(i) In 1774, Louis XVI of the Bourbon family of kings ascended the throne of France. Upon his accession, the new king found an empty treasury. Long years of war had drained the financial resources of France.
(ii) The cost of maintaining the immense palace of Versailles was also huge.
(iii) France also had to pay back the loans which they had taken during American War of Independence to help the colonies to fight against the common enemy Britain.
(iv) To meet its regular expenses the French government was forced to borrow money from lenders who charged more interest and thus the government had to spend an increasing percentage of its budget on interest payments alone.
(v) To meet its regular expenses, army, the court, government offices and universities expenses, the state was forced to increase taxes but the burden of taxation fell on the shoulders of the Third Estate.

Answer 20:

1. Bastar is located in the southernmost part of Chhattisgarh and borders Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Maharashtra. They speak different languages but share common customs and beliefs.
2. The people of Bastar believe that each village was given its land by the Earth, and in return, they looked after the earth by making some offerings at each agricultural festival. In addition to the Earth, they show respect to the spirits of the river, the forest and the mountain.
3. In each village some villagers knows about its boundaries and the local people look after all the natural resources within that boundary. If people from a village want to take some wood from the forests of another village, they pay a small fee called devsari, dand or man in exchange.
4. Some villages also protect their forests by engaging watchmen and each household contributes some grain to pay them.
5. Every year there is one big hunt where the headmen of villages in a pargana (cluster of villages) meet and discuss issues of concern, including forests.

OR

1.  Some reduced the number of cattle in their herds, since there was not enough pasture to feed large numbers.
2. Others discovered new pastures when movement to old grazing grounds became difficult. After 1947, the camel and sheep herding Raikas, for instance, could no longer move into Sindh and graze their camels on the banks of the Indus, as they had done earlier.
3. The new political boundaries between India and Pakistan stopped their movement. So they had to find new places to go.
4. In recent years they have been migrating to Haryana where sheep can graze on agricultural fields after the harvests are cut. This is the time that the fields need manure that the animals provide.
5. Over the years, some richer pastoralists began buying land and settling down, giving up their nomadic life. (Any other relevant points)

OR

1. The population increased rapidly, in 1868 England was producing about 80 per cent of the food it consumed. The rest was imported.
2. This increase in food-grain production was made possible not by any radical innovations in agricultural technology, but by bringing new lands under cultivation.
3. Landlords sliced up pasturelands, carved up open fields, cut up forest commons, took over marshes, and turned larger and larger areas into agricultural fields.
4. Enclosures were now seen as necessary to make long-term investments on land and plan crop rotations to improve the soil.
5. Enclosures also allowed the richer landowners to expand the land under their control and produce more for the market.

Answer 21:
(i) A constitution is mainly about embodying values into institutional arrangements.
(ii) It is a very long and detailed document. Therefore it needs to be amended quite regularly to keep it updated.
(iii) So, they made provisions to incorporate changes from time to time. These changes are called constitutional amendments.
(iv) The Constitution describes the institutional arrangements in a very legal language.
(v) Like any Constitution, the Indian Constitution lays down a procedure for choosing persons to govern the country. It defines who will have how much power to take which decisions.
(v) It puts limits to what the government can do by providing some rights to the citizen that cannot be violated.

Answer 22:
(i) In an ideal world all political leaders know what are good for the people and are only motivated by the desire to serve them. But that is not what happens in real world.
(ii) Political leaders all over the world like other professionals are motivated by a desire to advance their political career.
(iii) They want to remain in power and positions for themselves.
(iv) They may wish to serve people as well, but it is risky to depend entirely on their sense of duty.
(v) Even, when they wish to serve people, they may not know what is required to do or their ideas may not match with that of the people really want.

Answer 23:
(i) The SCs, STs and some sections of the OBCs who have either poor land base or very low land productivity.
(ii) People affected by natural disasters that have to migrate to other areas in search of work, are also among the most food insecure people.
(iii) A high incidence of malnutrition prevails among (pregnant) women; this also puts the unborn baby at risk of malnutrition.
(iv) A large number of nursing mothers and children under the age of five years constitute an important segment of the food insecure people.
(v) According to National Health and Family Survey (1998-1999), the number of such women and children are approximately 11 crore.

Answer 24:

Answer 25:
The major Himalayan rivers are the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra. These rivers are long and are joined by many large and important tributaries.

(i) The Indus River System: The Indus river rises in Tibet, near Lake Mansarovar. Flowing west, it enters India in the Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir. Several tributaries like the Zaskar, the Nubra, the Shy ok and the Hunza join it in the Kashmir region. The Indus flows through Baltistan and Gilgit and emerges from the mountains at Attock. The Satluj, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum join together to enter the Indus near Mithankot in Pakistan. Beyond this, the Indus flows southwards eventually reaching the Arabian Sea, east of Karachi. The total length of this river is 2900 km.

(ii) The Ganga River System: The headwaters of the Ganga, called the Bhagirathi, is led by the Gangotri Glacier and joined by the Alaknanda at Devprayag in Uttarakhand. At Haridwar the Ganga emerges from the mountains on to the plains. The Ganga is joined by many tributaries from the Himalayas. These are the Yamuna, the Ghaghara, the Kosi and the Gandak. The river Yamuna rises from the Yamunotri Glacier in the Himalayas. It flows parallel to the Ganga and as a right bank tributary, meets the Ganga at Allahabad. The Ghaghara, the Gandak and the Kosi rise in the Nepal Himalayas. The main tributaries that come from the peninsular uplands are the Chambal, the Betwa and the Son. Enlarged with the waters from its right and left bank tributaries, the Ganga flows eastwards till Farakka in West Bengal. This is the northernmost point of the Ganga delta. The river bifurcates here. The Bhagirathi-Hooghly here flows southwards through the deltaic plains to the Bay of Bengal. The length of the Ganga is over 2500 km.

(iii) The Brahmaputra River System: The Brahmaputra rises in Tibet east of Mansarovar lake very close to the sources of the Indus and the Satluj. It is slightly longer than the Indus, and most of its course lies outside India. It flows eastwards parallel to the Himalayas. On reaching the Namcha Barwa. it takes a ‘U’-tum and enters India in Arunachal Pradesh through a gorge. Here it is called the Dihang and it is joined by the Dibang, the Lohit, and many other tributaries to form Brahmaputra in Assam.

Answer 26:

Answer 27:

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