Academic year: 2014-2015

Model test - I
Name:
Grade: X- A
Date :

Subject
: Science
Max.marks : 90
Duration : 3 hours
Section A

Answer all the questions:

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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

Define angle of incidence.

Name the products formed when methane undergoes complete combustion.
Bio (1)
The speed of light in a transparent medium is 0.6 times that of its speed
in vacuum. What is the refractive index of the medium?
What is hydrogenation? What is its industrial application?
Bio (2)
State laws of reflection.
A ray of light travelling in air enters obliquely into water. Does the light ray
bend towards the normal or away from the normal? Why?
An object is placed at a distance of 12 cm in front of a concave mirror.
It forms a real image four times larger than the object. Calculate the distance
of the image from the mirror.

(1)
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(2)
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10.
i)
How is vinegar made? What is glacial acetic acid?
ii)
Why are carboxylic acids called weak acids?
iii)
Why carbon compounds do not conduct electricity?
11. What happens when:
i)
Methane reacts with excess of chlorine in the presence of diffused sunlight.
ii)
Ethanol in the presence of conc.H2SO4.
iii)
Ethyl alcohol reacts with acidified potassium dichromate.
Give equations also.
12. Draw the structure for the following compounds.
i)
Pentanoic acid
ii)
Bromopropane
iii)
Butenol
13. Bio(3)
14. Bio(3)
15. Bio(3)
16. Bio(3)
17. Bio(3)
18. Name the type of mirror used in the following situations:
(i) Headlights of a car
(ii) Rear-view mirror of vehicles
(iii) Solar furnace
Support your answer with reason.
19. A. Draw ray diagrams showing the image formation by a convex mirror
when an object is placed:
i) at infinity
ii) at finite distance from the mirror.

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B. Write the uses of convex mirror.

20. i) What is saponification?
ii) What are soaps? Why do they form scum with hard water?
iii) Would you be able to check if water is hard by using the detergent? Why?
iv) Why does micelle formation take place when soap is added to water?
v) Give one advantage of detergents over soaps.
21. An organic compound A on heating with conc.H2SO4 forms a compound B which
on addition of hydrogen in presence of nickel forms a compound C.
C on combustion forms CO2 and H2O. Identify the compounds A,B,C
and write the equations for the reactions involved.
22. Bio (5)
23. Bio (5)

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Section B
Multiple choice questions:
24. Which one of the following materials cannot be used to make a lens?
(a) Water
(b) glass
(c) plastic
(d) clay
(1)
25. An object is placed at the centre of curvature of concave mirror. The distance between its image and
the pole is :
(a) Equal to f
(b) between f and 2f (c) equal to 2f
(d) greater than 2 f
(1)
26. A ray of light travelling in air is incident on the plane of a transparent medium. The angle of incident is
45o and that of refraction is 30o. Find the index of the medium.
2

(a) 2
(b) 1/
(c) 2
27. Acetic acid is
(a) Insoluble in water
(b) soluble in water
(c) Partially soluble in water
(d) none of these
28. Soap solution is:
(a) Acidic
(b) basic
(c) neutral
29. Hard water contains:
(a) Ca2+
(b) Mg 2+
(c) Na+
30. Bio(1)
31. Bio(1)
32. Bio(1)
33. Give the conditions when concave mirror forms an image
(i) Smaller than actual object
(ii) Larger than actual object
34. State the role of common salt in the preparation of soaps.
35. Bio(2)

(d)

(1)
(d) highly acidic

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(d) both (a) and (b)

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...All the best...

Academic year: 2014-2015

Model test - I
Name:
Grade: IX- A

Subject
: Science
Max.marks : 90

Date :

Duration

: 3 hours

Section A
Answer all the questions:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Define 1 J of work
(1)
Find number of Neutrons in 7N15 .
(1)
What is immunity?
(1)
A pair of bullocks exerts a force of 140 N on a plough. The field being ploughed is
15m long. How much work is done in ploughing the length of the field?
(2)
5. Write the atomicity of the following molecules:
i) O3
ii) CCl4
(2)
6. A body is moving in a straight line with a certain velocity. Another body with double the mass and half
the velocity of the first is moving in the straight line. What is the ratio of kinetic energy of second body
with the first body?
(2)
7. Define power. Write its SI unit.
(3)
8. Find the energy in kWh consumed in 10 hours by four devices of power 500w each.
(3)
9. Define kinetic energy of an object at some speed.
Obtain an expression for Kinetic energy.
(3)
10. Write the chemical formulae for the following:
i) Magnesium chloride
ii) Calcium oxide
iii) Copper nitrate
(3)
11. Convert into mole.
a) 64 g of oxygen gas
b) 36 g of water
c) 22 g of CO2
(3)
12. Write the two laws of chemical combination.
(3)
13. Name the disease which are caused by virus, bacteria, protozoa (two examples each)
(3)
14. State in tabular form the modes of transmission of each of the following diseases.
(a) Syphilis (b) tuberculosis
(c) cholera
(d) Japanese encephalitis
(3)
15. It was diagnosed that a patient has lost the power of fighting any infection
(i)
Name the disease the patient is suffering from.
(ii)
Name the pathogen responsible for the disease.
(iii)
Which part the body is affected by the pathogen?
17. Why Bryophytes are called the Amphibians of the plant kingdom?
18. How do gymnosperms and angiosperms differ from each other?
19. What is immunisation? Name two diseases for which vaccines are available.
20. State and prove the law of conservation of energy.
21. Two girls, each of weight 400N climb up a rope through a height of 80m.
We name one of the girls A and the other B. Girl A takes 20s while B takes
50s to accomplish this task. What is the power expended by each girl?
21. I. Calculate the following quantities in 5.6 g of nitrogen (Atomic mass of N=14u)
(a) Number of moles of N2

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(b) Number of molecules of N2

(c) Number of atoms of Nitrogen
II. What is the difference between cation and anion? Give examples.
(5)
22. A. The chemical formula of oxide of an element X is X 2O3. Write the chemical formula of its
chloride.
B. Write Daltons atomic theory.
(5)
23. A. What is binomial nomenclature? List two advantages of naming organisms.
B. Write the difference between monocot and dicot plants.
C. Write about the importance of classifying organisms.
(5)
24. A. Differentiate between communicable and non- communicable diseases with examples.
B. Distinguish between acute and chronic disease with examples.
(5)

Section B

Multiple choice questions:

22. For which of the following quantity, the SI unit is Joule?
(a) Work
(b) energy
(c) power
(d) both (a) and (b) (1)
23. Work done on an object by a force would be zero if the displacement of the object is
(a) Zero
(b) 1
(c) infinity
(d) none of these
(1)
24. The commercial unit of energy is
(a) kW
(b) kWh
(c) W
(d) J
(1)
25. The formula for Barium chloride is
(a) BaCr
(b) BrCl
(c) BaCl2
(d) BCl
(1)
26. The colour of copper sulphate is
(a) blue
(b) green
(c) red
(d) yellow
(1)
27. BaCl2 + Na2SO4 BaSO4 + ?
(a) NaSO4
(b) NaCl
(c) 2NaCl
(d) none of these
(1)
28. Agaricus is commonly named as
(a) algae
(b) moss
(c) mushroom (d) fern
(1)
29. The plants that have enclosed seeds are called
(a) Angiosperm
(b) Gymnosperm (c) Pteridophyte
(d) Bryophyte
(1)
30. Which of the following is an oviparous animal?
(a) Mammals
(b) birds
(c) Cat
(d) rat
(1)
31. Soni says that the acceleration in an object could be zero even when several forces
are acting on it. Do you agree with her? Why?
(2)
32. State the law of conservation of mass.
(2)
33. Two bodies of masses m and 2m are thrown with a velocity of u and 3u from the surface. What is
the ratio of their potential energies at the highest point?
(2)

...All the best...