(Date-20/10/16)

Science
Class VIII

Answer any five (2 Marks each)

(10 Marks)

1. What is fuse?
2. Write the three uses of electromagnet.
3. What is heating effect of electric current? Write name of four equipment
based on this effect.
4. What do you mean by electro-plating?
5. What do you mean by short circuit?
6. How fuse works?
7. Define overloading.

(Date-20/10/16)
Science
Class IX

(10 Marks)
(1st to 6th carry one mark each rest of 2 marks)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Write the definition of ionic bond?

Write the formula of calcium carbonate.
What is an anion?
What is cation?
What is meant by valency?
What is the symbol of iron?
Balance the following chemical equations
a) KClO3
KCl+O2
b) Mg+ HCl
MgCl2+ H2

8. Write down the molecular formula of the following

a) Zinc sulphide
b) Barium chloride

Or
9. Explain variable valency with example
(Date-20/10/16)
Science
Class X
Answer any five questions
(Each question carries two marks)
1) Explain the reasons why carbon atom cannot take or give four electrons to
fulfill its octet configuration?
2) Define the term catenation and tetravalency.
3) Write the structural formula of
a) Pentane b) Pentene c) pentyne d)Heptane
4). what do you mean by homologous series explain with an example?
5) Draw the structures for the following compounds.
(i) Ethanoic acid (ii) Bromopentane*
(iii) Butanone (iv) Hexanal.
6) Write the molecular formula of ethanoic acid and its physical and chemical
properties.
7) A mixture of oxygen and ethyne is burnt for welding. Can you tell why a
mixture of ethyne and air
is not used?

Science
Class VII

Tick the correct answer

( 10 Marks)

1. What is necessary to obtain energy from the food?

a) Water b) oxygen c) carbon dioxide d) none of these
2.stomata are found in
a) leaves b) roots c)stems d) Both a and b
3.opening in a woody stem where exchange of gases takes place
a) stomata b) lenticels c) bark d) None of these
4.The grasshopper has. For breathing
a) moist skin b) gills c) lungs d) vacuole
5.The respiration which takes place without using oxygen
a) aerobic respiration b) anaerobic respiration c) exhalation d) None of these
6)The tiny balloons like structure making up most of the tissues of the lungs
a) alveoli b) trachea c) vocal chords d) larynx
7) Fishes respire through
a) cell membrane b) skin c) gills d) spiracles
8)soil which can hold a lot of water is
a) black soil b) sandy soil c) loamy soil d) clayey soil
9)which of the following is unable to live on the bare particles?
a) Lichen b) Mosses c) grass d) Fungi
10) which of the following live inside the soil?
a) rat b) cat c)Human d) None of these
11) In which state of India the black soil is found?
a)odisha b) Gujrat c) Bihar d) Meghalaya
12) In which state of India red soil is found?
a)Maharashtra b) chhota Nagpur c) Tamil Nadu d) Madhya Pradesh
13)Polythene ,plastic and other man made materials are called
a) Biodegradable b) Non biodegradable c) fertilizers d) pesticides
14) Decayed plants and animals are called
a) Dead matter b) pesticides c) humus d) new soil
15)The factor that influence the climate is
a) temperature b) snowfall c) dressing d) humidity
16) one complete rotation of the earth on its axis takes a period of
a) 12 hr b) 24 hr c) 36 hr d) 48 hr

17)Day to day change in the condition of atmosphere at a particular place is called

a) climate b) weather c) latitude d) altitude
18)which animals pass the hibernation
a) Frog b) ptarmigan c) penguin d) lizards
19)The temperature in the region close to the equator is
a) low b) Moderate c) high d) no effect
20)Which of the following animal can survive in the desert region?
a) penguin b)polar bear c) camel d) Musk oxen

21. Fill in the blanks with suitable words

(5 Marks)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)

Climate remains . Year after year.

The factors of climate are and ..
Latitude is a measure of distance from the .
The winward side of a mountain receives..
Camel can store fat in their
Soil mainly consists of fragments of .and .
The organic matter formed from the decaying plants is called..
Less energy is produced in ..respiration.
Stomata are found on the surface of the leaf.
Human being take in oxygen through.

22. Write true (T) or false (F) against the following statements
(5 Marks)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)

The land in very cold regions has enough humus.

Warm ocean currents cool the air
Altitude is the height above sea level.
The factors of climate are temperature and wind.
Weather is the day to day condition of atmosphere
A regions climate is its general pattern of weather over a short period.
Subsoil is rich in humus.
Chemical changes do not break down rocks.
Fertilizers also provide humus for soil
Fishes have gills as their respiratory organ

23.Match the following

Marks)
a) Relative humidity
b) Rainfall
c) Wind speed

(5
1)Millibars
2)kilometers per hour
3)degree celcius

d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)

Temperature
Atmospheric pressure
Single celled animal
The best gardening soil
Planting low strips of cover crops
Layer with little or no humus
Holds moisture and binds the soil particles

4)percent
5)centimeters
6)Loam
7)amoeba
8)subsoil
9) strip farming
10) humus

Very short answer type question.

( 15 Marks)

24. Define weather .

25. Which part of the earth does not receive suns radiant energy?
26. What is hibernation?
27. How do lizards and rodents escape the summer heat?
28. Name the two main ingredients of the soil.
29. How would you improve the sandy soil?
30. Define soil erosion.
31. Name the uppermost layer of soil and its main constituents.
32. Name the types of soil found in India.
33. In what form does soil contain water?
34. Why do living things need oxygen?
35. When oxygen burns food inside the body which gas is released?
36. What is the main difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration?
37. In which plants are lenticels present?
38. What happen to your chest when you exhale?
Short Answer Type Question
each)
39. How do animals adapt to cold climatic conditions?
40. Differentiate between weather and climate.
41. What do you understand by the term weathering?
42. Suggest two ways to solve the problem of soil pollution.
43. What is humus?
44. What do you mean by respiration?
45. What are the main causes of soil erosion?
Long Answer type questions
46. Describe the three main kinds of soil.

(4 Marks

47. What do you understand by soil profile?

48. Differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic respiration.
49. Describe the various respiratory organs of the human body.
Science
Class VIII
Very short answer questions
Marks each)
1. Define blood.
2. What is the function of plasma?
3. Who discovered the blood group?
4. Which blood group is known as universal blood donor?
5. Which blood group is known as universal blood receiver?
6. Who discovered the stethoscope?
7. What do you mean by blood bank?
8. Name the chemical added to preserve the blood in the blood bank.
9. Who discovered the blood circulation?
10.What is the full form of AIDS?
11.What is the full form of HIV?
12.What is the full form of ORS?
13.Name the pigment which makes the colour of the blood red.
14.What is the heartbeat of an adult man per minute?
15.Name the pathogen which causes tuberculosis.
16.Name the pathogen which causes diarrhoea.
17.Name the pathogen which causes Typhoid.
18.The disease chicken pox is caused by which virus?
19.Name the protozoa which causes malaria.
20.What are the constituents of outer covering of virus?
21.Name the medicine used for the treatment of worm infection.
22.Name the medicine used for the treatment of swine flu.
23.What is sound?
24.What is the speed of the sound?
25.What is the intensity of feeble sound?
26.What is the full form of SONAR?
27.What is the name of the outer part of human ear?
28.What is the unit of intensity of sound?
29.What is the unit of energy?
30.What do you mean by atomic energy?
Short Answer Type Questions(2 Marks each)
31.What are the functions of RBC?
32.What are the functions of WBC?
33.Differentiate between arteries and veins.
34.Why white blood corpuscles are called soldiers of our body?
35.Write short notes on Naru disease.
36.Write symptoms of cancer.

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37.Write preventive measure of AIDS.

38.Define work, its formula and unit.
39.Define kinetic energy.
40.What do you mean by potential energy?
41.What do you mean by Geo thermal energy?
42.What do you mean by fossil fuel?
43.Name the factors on which work done on the body depends.
44.Define frequency its formula and SI unit.
45.Define time period its unit and its relation with frequency.
46.Differentiate between audible, infrasonic and ultrasonic sound.
47.A musical instrument completes 400 vibrations in 2 seconds, then find out
the frequency.
48.Define pitch.
49.What do you mean by amplitude?
50.Sound of sitar feels more musical than sound of dholak.Why?
Long Answer Type Questions ( 5 Marks each)
Answer any two
51.Write short notes on a) Blood group b) Blood bank
52.Describe in detail about the following a) Haemophilia b)Anaemia
53.What are the methods of energy conservation?
54.Differnatiate between conventional and non conventional energy sources of
energy by giving examples.
55.What is sound pollution? How it can be controlled?

Science
Class IX

Science
Class X
Very Short Answer Type Questions
(1
mark each)
1) Name one metal which exists as liquid at room temperature.
2) Give an example of a metal which can be easily cut with a knife.
3) Write the name of the pigment which makes our blood red in colour.
4) Find the power of concave lens of focal length 2m.
5) What is meant by power of accommodation of eyes?
6) Give an example of a non metal which is lustrous.
7) What is the far point and near point of the human eye with normal vision?

8) Why is the use of iodized salt advisable?

9) Name the type of eye lens we Human have?
10) Which gas is usually liberated when an acid reacts with a metal?
11) What is the chemical formula of bleaching powder, and plaster of paris?
12) What is water of crystallization?
13) What do you mean by Royal water? Write the composition of it.
14) What do you mean by the term least distance of distinct vision?
15) What do you mean by the term angle of deviation?
16) When we heat baking soda a gas was evolved which causes bread or cake to
rise and make them soft and spongy. Write the name of the gas.
17) On which part of the eyes image is formed. Write the nature of the image
also.
18) Draw the structure of a neuron.
19) What is synapse
20) Which part of the brain maintains posture and equilibrium of the body?
Short Answer Type Questions
(2 Marks Each)
1) What do you mean by amphoteric oxides? Give an example of amphoteric
oxide with chemical equations to justify it.
2) A student has difficulty reading the blackboard while sitting in the last row.
What could be the defect the child is suffering from? How can it be corrected?
3) Why sodium is kept immersed in kerosene oil?
4) Write equations for the reactions of
(i) iron with steam
(ii) calcium and potassium with water
5) Why do ionic compounds have high melting points?
6) Show the formation of Na2 O and MgO by the transfer of electrons.
7) Define the following terms.
(i)Mineral (ii) Ore (iii) Gangue (iv) Anode mud
8) What will happen if we kill all the organisms in one trophic level?
9) Differentiate between metal and non-metal on the basis of their physical
properties.
10) Give any two ways in which non-biodegradable substances would affect the
environment.
11) Define food chain and food web with proper example.
12) Why does the Sun appear reddish early in the morning?
13) What do you mean by the term biological biomagnifications? Will the levels of
this magnification be different at different levels of the ecosystem?
14) When lead Nitrate undergoes decomposition reaction a gas with brown fumes
emitted. Write the name of the gas and chemical equation.
15)Why does the sky appear dark instead of blue to an astronaut?
16) When calcium reacts with water after some time it starts floating on water.
What is the reason behind it? Write the chemical equation.
17) Why sodium is kept immersed in kerosene oil?
18) What is ozone? Why is damage to the ozone layer a cause for concern? What
steps are being taken to limit this damage?
19) What is 10% law in ecosystem?
20) Why do stars twinkle?
21) How do auxins promote the growth of a tendril around a support?

22) Which site in our body is known as site of complete digestion of

carbohydrate, protein and fats?
23) The refractive index of diamond is 2.42.What is the meaning of this
statement?
24) Define Addition reaction with an example.
25) What do you understand by corrosion and Rancidity?

Long Answer Type Questions

(2.5
marks each)
Answer any four
1) Write in brief
i.
Myopia
ii.
Hypermetropia
2) What are plant hormones? Write their names and functions.
3) Write the chemical formula, preparation, and uses of
i.
Plaster of paris
ii.
Bleaching powder
4) Write in brief about
a)Adrenal gland b)Thyroid gland c) Pituitary gland d)Pancreas
5) A person needs a lens of power 5.5 dioptres for correcting his distant vision.
For correcting his near vision he needs a lens of power +1.5 dioptre. What is
the focal length of the lens required for correcting (i) distant vision, and (ii)
near vision?
6) Give reasons
(a) Platinum, gold and silver are used to make jewellery.
(b) Sodium, potassium and lithium are stored under oil.
(c) Aluminium is a highly reactive metal, yet it is used to make utensils for
cooking.
(d) Carbonate and sulphide ores are usually converted into oxides during the
process of extraction.