CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 Social Science Paper 5

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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 Social Science Paper 5

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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 do you understand by ‘kulaks’?

Question 12
Identify the place where the Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up in 1906.
OR
Examine the importance of grazing tax introduced in India.
OR
Name the Special Commissioner at Canton who estimated the number of opium smokers in China in 1839.

Question 3:
Who chaired the Drafting Committee for Indian Constituent Assembly?

Question 4:
Name the group of islands lying in the Arabian Sea.

Question 5:
Define IMR.

Question 6:
What is International poverty line means?

Question 7:
What is the National Food for Work Programme (NFWP)?

Question 8:
Why is it considered that the plan of Hitler to attack Soviet Union was a ‘historic blunder ’?

Question 9:
‘European foresters regarded the practice of ‘shifting cultivation’ as harmful for the forests’. Why?
OR
‘One of the problems the Maasais have faced during the colonial period is the continuous loss of their grazing lands’. Support your answer with suitable arguments in favour.
OR
Examine the steps taken to meet with the increasing demand of food grains due to the increase in population.

Question 10:
“Indian leaders were inspired by the ideals of other countries when they made our constitution, but on our own terms”. Name the countries and examine their ideals that that followed by Indian Constitution makers.

Question 11:
Is China a democratic country? Give three arguments in favour of your answer.

Question 12:
What is EPIC? Give any other identity that can be used by a voter as a proof apart from EPIC?

Question 13:
How were the northern plain formed? Give the area, length and breadth of northern plain.

Question 14:
Name the two headstreams of river Ganga. State one advantage and one disadvantage of the river Ganga and its tributaries.

Question 15:
Name the four requirements needed for the production. Explain.

Question 16:
‘Though Japan has not much natural resources, still it has economically progressed’. Justify the statement.

Question 17:
‘Apart from various social groups, there is also inequality of incomes within a family that affects poverty’. Prove the statement with examples.

Question 18:
Explain what is Minimum Support Price?

Question 19:
Analyse the changes that took place in Russia after the Revolution of November 1917.

Question 20:
What do you understand by ‘scientific forestry’? ‘Many people now, including ecologists, feel that this system is not scientific at all’. Why?
OR
What did colonial government in India do to expand their revenue income? Explain.
OR
Examine the consequences of the mechanized agricultural production in USA on the poor.

Question 21:
Examine the powers of the Parliament.

Question 22:
Why is protection of the rights of minorities necessary in a democracy? Point out any three provisions in ‘Cultural and Educational Rights’ to protect the rights of minorities.

Question 23:
Point out such social groups that are food insecure.

Question 24:
What is migration? Name the two types of migrations. Explain with examples.

Question 25:
Which region is influenced by monsoons on the globe? Explain the key facts to understand the mechanism of monsoon.

Question 26:
On the outline map of France locate and label the following places:
(i) Bordeaux
(ii) Nantes

Question 27:
(A) On the given political outline map of India locate and label/identify the following with appropriate symbols:
(i) Identify the type of vegetation.
(ii) Label and locate the Leh meteorological station
(iii) Label and locate the state with highest sex ratio.

Answers

Answer 1:
The ‘kulaks’ are the name for well to-do peasants.

Answer 2:
The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun in 1906.
OR
Pastoralists had to pay tax on every animal they grazed on the pastures. In most pastoral tracts of India, grazing tax was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. The tax per head of cattle went up rapidly and the system of collection was made increasingly efficient.
OR
Lin Ze-xu, Special Commissioner at Canton in 1839.

Answer 3:
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Answer 4:
Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep Islands.

Answer 5:
Infant mortality rate is the death of a child under one year of age.

Answer 6:
International poverty line means population below 1.90 a day.

Answer 7:
The National Food for Work Programme was launched in 2004 in 150 most backward districts of India. The programme is open to all poor who are in need of wage employment and desire to do manual unskilled work.

Answer 8:
(i) Hitler attacked Soviet Union in 1941 to achieve his long term aim of conquering Eastern Europe.
(ii) This exposed the German Western front to British aerial bombing and Eastern front to powerful Soviet armies. The Soviet Red Army inflicted a crushing and humiliating defeat on Germany at Stalingrad.
(iii) After this defeat the Soviet Red Anny hounded out the retreating German military until they reached the heart of Berlin. By this the Soviet Union occupied East Germany and controlled Eastern Europe for the next half of the century.

Answer 9:

1. European foresters felt that land which was used for cultivation every few’ years could not grow trees for railway timber.
2. When a forest was burnt, there was the added danger of the flames spreading and burning valuable timber.
3. Shifting cultivation also made it harder for the government to calculate taxes. Therefore, the government decided to ban shifting cultivation.
4. As a result, many communities were forcibly displaced from their homes in the forests. Some had to change occupations, while some resisted through large and small rebellions.

OR

1. Before colonial times, Maasailand stretched over a vast area from north Kenya to the steppes of northern Tanzania. In the late nineteenth century, European imperial powers scrambled for territorial possessions in Africa, slicing up the region into different colonies.
2. In 1885, Maasailand was cut into half with an international boundary between British Kenya and German Tanganyika. Subsequently, the best grazing lands were gradually taken over for white settlement and the Maasai w’ere pushed into a small area in south Kenya and north Tanzania.
3. The Maasai lost about 60 per cent of their pre-colonial lands. They were confined to an arid zone with uncertain rainfall and poor pastures.

OR

1. The population increased rapidly, in 1868 England was producing about 80 percent 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.

Answer 10:
(i) France: Many Indian leaders were inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution and their resolution on liberty, equality and fraternity.
(ii) Britain: Indian leaders were inspired by the Parliamentary democracy in Britain.
(iii) US: Bill of Rights.
(iv) Russia: Socialist Economy and equality.

Answer 11:
(i) Elections are regularly after every five years for electing the country’s parliament, called Quanguo Renmin Daibiao Dahui (National People’s Congress).
(ii) The National People’s Congress has the power to appoint the President of the country. It has nearly 3,000 members elected from all over China. Some members are elected by the army.
(iii) Before contesting elections, a candidate needs the approval of the Chinese Communist Party or eight smaller parties allied to it were allowed to contest elections held in 2002¬’03. The government is always formed by the Communist Party.

Answer 12:
(i) Election Photo Identity Card [EPIC] has been introduced by the government to be given to every person on the voters list.
(ii) The voters are required to carry this card when they go out to vote so that no one can vote for someone else.
(iii) For voting, the voters can show many other proofs of identity like the ration card or the driving license.

Answer 13:
(i) Formation: This plain is formed of alluvial soil. The deposition of alluvium in a vast basin lying at the foothills of the Himalaya over millions of years, formed this fertile plain.
(ii) Area: 7 lakh sq. km.
(iii) Length and breadth: 2400 Km long and 240 to 320 Km broad

Answer 14:
(i) Headstreams: ‘Bhagirathi’ and Alaknanda meeting at Devaprayag
(ii) Advantage: These rivers enrich the soil for the extensive agricultural lands.
(iii) Disadvantage: The rivers, which flood parts of the northern plains every year, causing widespread damage to life and property.

Answer 15:
(i) The first requirement is land, and other natural resources such as water, forests and minerals.
(ii) The second requirement is labour that is people who will do the work.
(iii) The third requirement is physical capital: the variety of inputs required at every state during production. There are two types of Physical Capital (a) Fixed (b) Working.
(iv) Human Capital: The knowledge and enterprise that we need to put together land, labour and physical capital to produce an output is human Capital.

Answer 16:
(i) Japan has invested in human resource. They did not have any natural resource. They have invested on people especially in the field of education and health.
(ii) These people have made efficient use of other resource like land and capital.
(iii) Efficiency and the technology evolved by people have made these countries rich/developed.

Answer 17:
(i) In poor families all suffer, but some suffer more than others.
(ii) Women, elderly people and female infants are systematically denied equal access to resources available to the family.
(iii) Therefore women, children (especially the girl child) and old people are poorest of the poor.

Answer 18:
(i) The FCI purchases wheat and rice from the farmers in states where there is surplus production. The farmers are paid a pre- announced price for their crops. This is called Minimum Support Price.
(ii) The MSP declared by the government every year provides incentive to the farmers to increase the production of the crops.

Answer 19:
(i) The Bolsheviks were totally opposed to private property. Most industry and banks were nationalised in November 1917.
(ii) Land was declared social property and peasants were allowed to seize the land of the nobility. In cities, Bolsheviks enforced the partition of large houses according to family requirements.
(iii) They banned the use of the old titles of aristocracy. The Bolshevik Party was renamed the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik).
(iv) In November 1917, the Bolsheviks conducted the elections to the Constituent Assembly, but they failed to gain majority support.
(v) In January 1918, the Assembly rejected Bolshevik measures and Lenin dismissed the Assembly.
(vi) He thought the All Russian Congress of Soviets was more democratic than an assembly elected in uncertain conditions.
(vii) In March 1918, despite opposition by their political allies, the Bolsheviks made peace with Germany at Brest Litovsk.

Answer 20:
Scientific forestry: A system of cutting trees controlled by the forest department, in which old trees are cut and new ones planted.

1. In scientific forestry, natural forests which had lots of different types of trees were cut down. In their place, one type of tree was planted in straight rows. This is called a plantation.
2. Forest officials surveyed the forests, estimated the area under different types of trees, and made working plans for forest management. They planned how much of the plantation area to cut every year.
3. The area cut was then to be replanted so that it was ready to be cut again in some years.

OR

1. Tax was imposed on land, on canal water, on salt, on trade goods, and even on animals. Pastoralists had to pay tax on every animal they grazed on the pastures.
2. In most pastoral tracts of India, grazing tax was introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. The tax per head of cattle went up rapidly and the system of collection was made increasingly efficient.
3. In the decades between the 1850s and 1880s the right to collect the tax was auctioned out to contractors. These contractors tried to extract as high a tax as they could to recover the money they had paid to the state and earn as much profit as they could within the year.
4. By the 1880s the government began collecting taxes directly from the pastoralists. Each of them was given a pass.
5. To enter a grazing tract, a cattle herder had to show the pass and pay the tax. The number of cattle heads he had and the amount of tax he paid was entered on the pass.

OR

1. For the poorer farmers, machines brought misery. Many of them bought these machines, imagining that wheat prices would remain high and profits would flow in.
2. Those who borrowed money when banks offered loans, found it difficult to pay back their debts. Many of them deserted their farms and looked for jobs elsewhere.
3. But jobs were difficult to find. Mechanization had reduced the need for labour.
4. And the boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries seemed to have come to an end by the mid- 1920s. Wheat prices fell and export markets collapsed.
5. This created the grounds for the Great Agrarian Depression of the 1930s that ruined wheat farmers everywhere.

Answer 21:
(i) Parliament is the final authority for making laws in any country. This task of law making or legislation is so crucial that these assemblies are called legislatures.
(ii) They all over the world can make new laws, change existing laws, or abolish existing laws and make new ones in their place.
(iii) They all over the world exercise some control over those who run the government. In some countries like India this control is direct and full. Those who run the government can take decisions only so long as they enjoy support of the Parliament.
(iv) They control all the money that governments have. In most countries the public money is spent only when the Parliament sanctions it. (Budget)
(v) They are the highest forum of discussion and debate on public issues and national policy in any country. Parliament can seek information about any matter.

Answer 22:
(i) There are three types of minorities, Linguistic, religious and cultural. Democracy is the rule of majority. If the language, culture and religion of the minorities are not protected, they may get neglected or undermined under the impact of the majority culture, language or religion which will adversely affect the principle of Universal Adult Franchise.
The Indian constitution specifies the following cultural and educational rights to the minorities:
(ii) Any section of citizens with a distinct language or culture has a right to conserve it.
(iii) Admission to any educational institution maintained by the government can’t be denied to any one on the ground of religion or language.
(iv) All minorities have right to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice.

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 who 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 (NHFS), the number of such women and children are approximately 11 crore (1998-1999).

Answer 24:
(i) Migration: Movement of people across regions and territories.
(ii) Two types: Internal migration and international migration
(iii) Internal migration: Movement of people with in the country. For example people moving from Bihar to Delhi.
International migration: Movement of people between countries. For example people moving out from India to USA.

Answer 25:
(i) Region: Roughly between 20° N and 20° S.
(ii) Mechanism of monsoon: key facts:
(a) The differential heating and cooling of land and water creates low pressure on the landmass of India while the seas around experience comparatively high pressure.
(b) The shift of the position of Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in summer, over the Ganga plain (this is the equatorial trough normally positioned about 5°N of the equator. It is also known as the monsoon trough during the monsoon season).
(c) The presenqe of the high-pressure area, east of Madagascar, approximately at 20° S over the Indian Ocean. The intensity and position of this high-pressure area affects the Indian Monsoon.
(d) The Tibetan plateau gets intensely heated during summer, which results in strong vertical air currents and the formation of low pressure over the plateau at about 9 km above sea level.

Answer 26:

Answer 27:

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