Summative Assessment-1 2014-2015

Science
Class IX
Time allowed: 3:00 hours

Maximum Marks: 90

General Instructions:
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The question paper comprises of two sections A and B. You are to attempt both the
sections.
All questions are compulsory.
All questions of Section A and Section B are to be attempted separately.
There is no overall choice but internal choice has been provided in all the five questions
of five marks category.
Q. No. 1 to 3 in Section A 1 marks questions. These are to be answered in about one
word or in one sentence.
Q. No. 4 to 6 in Section A 2 marks questions. These are to be answered in about 30
words each.
Q. No. 7 to 18 in Section A 3 marks questions. These are to be answered in about 50
words each.
Q. No. 19 to 24 in Section A 5 marks questions. These are to be answered in about 70
words each.
Q. No. 25 to 33 in Section B are MCQ based on practical skills. Each question is a 1 mark
question. You are to select one most appropriate response out of the four provided to
you.
Question number 34 to 36 in Section B are questions based on practical skills are two
marks questions.

Section A
1. Name the following tissues:
a) That forms the inner lining of our mouth
b) Present in the brain
2. What is the total momentum of the bullet and the gun after the gun is fired?
3. Which forced is called centre seeking force?
4. Explain the following giving examples:
a) Saturated solution
b) Unsaturated solution
5. It is the cell number and not the cell size that determines the size of an organism. Comment
on this statement using an example.
6. A body travels a distance of 3 km towards East, then 4 km towards North and finally 9 km
towards East:
a) Find the total distance travelled
b) Find the resultant displacement

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7. a)
A sponge can be compressed, yet it is a solid why? Explain.
b)
Name the state of matter that has minimum space between particles.
8. Which techniques crystallization or evaporation is better to obtain salt from sea water?
9. Define the following terms:
a) Melting point
b) Boiling point
c) Sublimation
Why are complex tissues called so?
10. a)
b)
Write names of different types of complex tissues.
c)
State the function of these tissues.
11. Discuss the shape of following cell organelles, lysosomes, mitochondria and golgi apparatus.
12. What type of motion is represented by each of the following graphs?

13. A boy drops a ball from a cliff 122.5 m high. Finda) How long does it take the ball to the fall to the ground.
b) How far does it fall in the 1st 3 seconds?
c) How fast is it going at the end of 3 seconds?
14. In which of the following cases, net force acting is zero? Also, identify the direction of force,
a) A car drives around a circular race tracek at a constant speed.
b) A person pushes a door to hold it shut.
c) A ball, rolling across a grassy field, slowly comes to a stop.
15. The sparks produced during sharpening of a knife against a grinding wheel leaves the rim of
the wheel tangentially. Can it be attributed to inertia? Explain.
16. Find what happens to the gravitational force between two objects when:
a) Distance between them is doubled
b) Masses of both the objects are doubled
17. After passing class IX Malti decided that her villages women need to be literated so that they
can also contributed to the society. Malti told them that they can increase the milk
production of the cattle by mating them with species having long lactation period and taking
care of the balanced ration of the cattle.
a) Which method is commonly used for improving cattle breeds?
b) One of the women asked Malti, how it is possible to get their cattle mate with foreign
breeds. Suggest how is it done?
c) What values are inculcated by Malti in they women of the village?

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18. Mention three ways by which storage grains can be protected from degradation and loss in
weight.
19. a)
Evaporation causes cooling. Comment on this statement.
b)
Explain how water kept in a earthen pot, becomes cool during summer?
20. a)
Differentiate between a mixtures and a compound.
b)
You are provided with a mixture containing sand, iron filings, naphthalene and
sodium chloride. Describe the procedures you would use to separate these constituents from
the mixture.
21. Classify the muscle fibres based upon their structure, and location. Draw neat and labelled
diagram of any two of the muscle fibres.
22. The velocity time graph of cars A and B which start from the same place and move along a
straight road in the same direction is shown below:

Calculate:
a) The acceleration of car B between 2 s and 4 s.
b) The time at which both the cars have the same velocity
c) The distance travelled by the two cars A and B in 8 s.
23. The distance time graph for the motion of a car is as shown below:

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

Which part of the graph is not realistic?

During which period was the car travelling at the greatest speed?
During which period was the car moving with the least speed?
What is the average speed of the car for the entire journey?
Is the motion of the car uniform or non uniform?
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24. Define the following:

a) Milch animals
b) Draught animals
c) Sustainable agriculture
d) White revolution
e) Fodder crops
Section B
25. If we are not observing positive test for starch in a food sample it means the given food
material is:
a) Rice
b) Potato
c) Peas
d) Corn flour
26. There are two test tubes provided to you. One has sugar solution and the other has starch
dissolved in water. To differentiate one from the other, the correct way to test is:
a) Smell on heating
b) Observe colour change by adding dil HCL
c) Observe colour change by adding iodine solution
d) Solubility in water
27. Which of the following methods help in exact recognition of iron, Sulphur and iron Sulphide?
a) Their melting point
b) Their physical appearance
c) Their odour
d) Both (a) and (b)
28. A mixture of iron filings and Sulphur powder can be easily separated by:
a) Using magnet
b) Dissolving in carbon disulphide
c) Dissolving in water
d) Both (a) and (b)
29. Crystals of copper Sulphate are heated, they turn white. This colour change is due to
a) Loss of copper ions
b) Loss of Sulphate ions
c) Decomposition of copper Sulphate
d) Loss of water of crystallisation
30. While observation a stained mount of onion peel under high power compound microscope,
the part of the cell that takes very little stain is:
a) Nucleus
b) Cytoplasm
c) Vacuole
d) Cell wall

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31. The stripped muscle fibres are:

a) Spindle shaped and uninucleate
b) Cylindrical without nuclei
c) Cylindrical with striations and many nuclei
d) Cylindrical and uninucleate
32. Identify the substance which sublimes on heating;
a) Potassium chloride
b) Sodium chloride
c) Calcium chloride
d) Anthracene
33. Two bodies when placed in contact exert forces parallel to the surface of contact. This force is
called:
a) Normal force
b) Contact force
c) Gravitational force
d) Frictional force
34. Rima took fine chalk powder, egg albumin, starch powder in four test tubes A, B, C and D
respectively. After adding water to all the four test tubes, identify the test tubes as true
solution, suspension and colloid.
35. In an experiment to determine the melting point of ice in laboratory, what form of ice should
be preferably used? When should the reading of thermometer be noted?
36. A student recorded the mass of dry raisins as 3g and the mass of raisins after soaking in
water as 4.8g, calculate the percentage of water absorbed by raisins.

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