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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 10 Social Science Term 2 Set 8 for Practice
Time Allowed: 2 Hours
Maximum Marks: 40
General Instructions:
- This Question paper is divided into five sections-Sedion A, B, C, D and E.
- All questions are compulsory.
- Section-A: Question no. 1 to 5 are Very Short Answer type questions of 2 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 40 words.
- Section-B: Question no. € to 8 are Short Answer type questions, carrying 3 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 80 words.
- Sectkm-C: Question no. 9 and 10 are Long Answer type questions, carrying 5 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 120 words.
- Section-D: Question no. 11 and 12 are Case Based questions.
- Section-E: Question no. 13 is map based, carrying 3 marks with two parts, 13.1 from History (1 mark) and 13.2 from Geography (2 marks).
- There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal choice has been provided in a few questions. Only one of the dunces in such questions have to be attempted.
- In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and question, wherever necessary.
Section – A
Very Short Answer Questions (2 × 5 = 10)
Question 1.
Evaluate the role of Business Classes in the ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’.
Question 2.
Explain any two factors which were responsible for the concentration of Cotton Textile Industry in Maharashtra and Gujarat in early years.
Question 3.
What is meant by ‘Regional Political Party’? State any one condition required to be recognized as a ‘Regional Political Party’.
Question 4.
Explain any two loan activities of banks in India.
Question 5.
Read the data in the table given below and answer the questions that follow:
5.1 Read the data and give a consequence for industries responsible for environmental Degradation in India?
5.2 Mention any one measure used to reduce industrial pollution of fresh water.
Section – B
Short Answer Type Questions (3 × 3 = 9)
Question 6.
Analyse any three reasons for the slowing down of Non-Cooperation Movement in cities.
Question 7.
Establish the relationship between Democracy and Development.
Question 8.
Why is cheap and affordable credit important for the country’s development? Explain any three reasons.
OR
Where do MNCs setup their production units? Explain.
Section – C
Long Answer Type Questions (5 × 2 = 10)
Question 9.
How are Political Parties recognized as Regional and National Parties in India? Explain with examples.
Question 10.
“Credit sometimes pushes the borrower into a situation from where recovery is very painful.”
Support the statement with examples.
OR
“Fair globalisation would create opportunities for all and also ensure that benefits of globalisation are shared better.” Support the statement.
Section – D
Case Based Questions (4 × 2 = 8)
Question 11.
Read the given text and answer the following questions: (4)
The Silk Routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. The name ’silk routes’ points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route. Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa. They are known to have existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century. But Chinese pottery also travelled the same route, as did textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia. In return, precious metals – gold and silver – flowed from Europe to Asia.
Trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand. Early Christian missionaries almost certainly travelled this route to Asia, as did early Muslim preachers a few centuries later. Much before all this, Buddhism emerged from eastern India and spread in several directions through
intersecting points on the silk routes.
11.1 What do ‘Silk Routes’ refer to? What is its significance? (2)
11.2 What was exported from India through the Silk Route? (1)
11.3. Who were the people who travelled through the Silk route to Asia? (1)
Question 12.
Read the given text and answer the following questions: (4)
In ancient India, cotton textiles were produced with hand spinning and handloom weaving techniques. After the 18th century, power-looms came into use. Our traditional industries suffered a setback during the colonial period because they could not compete with the mill-made cloth from England.
In the early years, the cotton textile industry was concentrated in the cotton growing belt of Maharashtra and Gujarat. Availability of raw cotton, market, transport including accessible port facilities, labour, moist climate, etc., contributed towards its localization. This industry has close links with agriculture and provides a living to farmers, cotton ball pluckers and workers engaged in ginning, spinning, weaving, dyeing, designing, packaging, tailoring and sewing. The industry by creating demands supports many other industries, such as, chemicals and dyes, packaging materials and engineering works.
While spinning continues to be centralised in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, weaving is highly decentralised to provide scope for incorporating traditional skills and designs of weaving in cotton, silk, zari, embroidery, etc. India has world class production in spinning, but weaving supplies low quality of fabric as it cannot use much of the high quality yarn produced in the country. Weaving is done by handloom, power loom and in mills.
12.1 Why did our traditional industries suffer a setback during the Colonial Period? (1)
12.2 How is cotton industry closely linked with agriculture? (1)
12.3 Weaving industries support which industries? (2)
Section – E
Map Skill Basrd Question (1 × 3 = 3)
Question 13.
13.1 On the given outline Political Map of India, identify the place marked as A with the help of following information and write its correct name on the line marked near it.
(A) Cotton mill workers satyagraha. (1)
13.2 On the same given map of India, locate the following:
(I) Kakrapar Nuclear Power Station (1)
OR
Bengaluru Software Technology Park (1)
(II) Vìsakhapatnam Seaport. (1)
