Summative Assessment-1 2014-2015

Social Science
Class – IX

Time allowed: 3:00 hours Maximum Marks: 90

General Instructions:

a) The question paper has 30 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
b) Questions from serial number 1 to 8 are very short questions. Each questions carry 1
mark.
c) Questions from serial number 9 to 20 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these questions
should not exceed 80 words each.
d) Questions from serial number 21 to 28 are 5 marks questions. Answer of these questions
should not exceed 120 words each.
e) Questions from serial number 29 and 30 are map questions of 3 marks each from history
and geography. After completion, attach the map inside your answer book.

1. Who in France, were given the status of active citizens?

2. Write the east-west extent of India?
3. State the degree of latitude of the northern extremity if India?
4. Explain the term ‘water divide’?
5. How did military dictatorship come to an end in Chile?
6. Describe one feature of the Preamble of the constitution of India?
7. State one feature of Indirect or representative democracy?
8. Mention one disadvantage of unorganized sector.
9. How would you explain the rise of Nepolean?
10. State three reasons responsible for the failure of the weimer republic?
11. Describe the impact of great economic depression on the German economy?
12. When the sun rises in Arunanchal Pradesh, it is still night in Gujrat? Why?
13. Describe the features of Himachal or lesser Himalayas?
14. Describe the main features of the Himalayan rivers?
15. Describe any three characteristics of the northern plain of India and its value in our
economy?
16. Why did President Allende address the ‘workers’? Why were the landlords, the rich and the
church oppose to his politics?
17. State difference between democratic and non-democratic governments?
18. “A democratic government is better government it because it is more accountable form of
government” explain?
19. Define physical capital. Describe its different types?
20. Which capital would you consider the best and why?
21. Describe the reforms of Napolean?

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22. Describe Hitler’s policy towards women?
23. Compare the features of the Himalayan rivers and the peninsular rivers?
24. What is a Apartheid? How did people of South Africa struggle against it?
25. Explain the factors responsible for the expansion of indirect democracy?
26. How did the spread of electricity help farmers in palampur?
27. What the causes of unemployment in the urban areas?
28. What are the effects of modern farming methods? Explain.
29. Three items A, B and C are shown in the given outline on map of France. Identify these items
with the help of following information and write there correct names on the lines marked on
the map
a) The immense palace
b) The region not affected by the ‘Great Fear’
c) The epicenter of main panic movements.
30. On the given political outline map of India, locate the following with appropriate symbols
a) A state that shares its boundary with Bhutan and Bangladesh
b) Pulicat lake
c) River Mahanadi

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