CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 Social Science Paper 2

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CBSE Sample Papers for Class 9 Social Science Paper 2

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Time: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 80

General Instructions

(i) The question paper has 27 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Marks are indicated against each question.
(iii) Questions from serial number 1 to 7 are very short answer questions. Each question carries 1 mark.
(iv) Questions from serial number 8 to 18 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these questions should not exceed 80 words each.
(v) Questions from serial number 19 to 25 are 5 marks questions. Answer of these questions should not exceed 100 words each.
(vi) Question number 26 and 27 are map questions of 2 marks from History and 3 marks from Geography. After completion, attach the maps inside the answer book.

Questions

Question 1:
What was the slogan Hitler developed when he integrated Austria and Germany in 1938?

Question 2:
From which tree the forest people used to collect oil for cooking and lighting the lamp?
OR
Examine what happened to Maasailand when it was occupied by European Imperial powers in 1885?
OR
Who was Captain Swing?

Question 3:
What is a ‘writ’?

Question 4:
Name the canal that has reduced the distance significantly between India and Europe.

Question 5:
Mention the common methods adopted to analyse the dimensions of poverty.

Question 6:
Which are the states in India more food insecure? Any two.

Question 7:
What is the proposed job reserved for women according to ‘Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 ’ ?

Question 8:
‘The First World War had a severe impact on Russian industries’. Explain.

Question 9:
“The British government decided to ban shifting cultivation”. Why? Mention its result.
OR
“From the late nineteenth century, the colonial government began imposing various restrictions on the movements of the pastoralists of Africa”. Discuss.
OR
Describe the conditions that led to the Captain Swing riots in England after the Napoleonic wars.

Question 10:
How does the Election Commission of India regulate campaigns of political parties and candidates to ensure fair and equal chances to compete?

Question 11:
What is a ‘constitution’?

Question 12:
Critically evaluate any three defects of the elections held in Mexico.

Question 13:
Name the river which originates near lake Mansarovar in Tibet. What is the length of this river? Give two important tributaries of this river flowing in the state of Punjab in India.

Question 14:
Why are Tropical Rain Forests called as ‘Evergreen Forests”? State two characteristics of Tropical Rain Forests along with two examples of trees found in these areas. Also mention two important animals found in these forests.

Question 15:
What is the main production activity in Palampur? Mention its features?

Question 16:
What part does health play in an individual’s working life?

Question 17:
What are the major constraints in raising farm production in Palampur since 1960?

Question 18:
Expain the main features of Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yozana (PMGY).

Question 19:
What led to the incident of ‘Bloody Sunday’? Explain its impact on Russia.

Question 20:
Evaluate the changes that took place in the trade pattern of India with the coming of British Colonial power.
OR
“In Maasailand, as elsewhere in Africa, not all pastoralists were equally affected by the changes in the colonial period”. Comment.
OR
Explain how the Great Plains of USA was turned into a dust bowl? What lesson did farmers of US learn from this event?

Question 21:
Discuss the routine arguments against democracy.

Question 22:
Mention the rights recognized by International covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Question 23:
Give a brief account of Inter-State Disparities in poverty in India.

Question 24:
What is climate? Explain any four controls which influence the climate of any place.

Question 25:
Why are Tropical Rain Forests called as ‘Evergreen Forests”? State two characteristics of Tropical Rain Forests along with two examples of trees found in these areas. Also mention two important animals found in these forests.

Question 26
On the given outline map of the World, locate and label the countries known as Central Powers in the first World War in 1914.
(i) Germany, Austria-Hungary & Ottoman Empire (Turkey) (Shade the countries)

Question 27:
(A) On the given political outline map of India locate and label/identify the following with appropriate symbols:
(i) Identify the type of forests
(ii) Label and locate the Ranthambhor National Park
(iii) Label and locate the Nagpur meteorological station.

Answers

Answer 1:
Hitter integrated Austria and Germany in 193 8 under the slogan. One people, One empire, and One leader.

Answer 2:
Oil for cooking and to light lamps was made from the fruit of the mahua tree.
OR
In 1885, Maasailand was cut into half with an international boundary between British Kenya and German Tanganyika.
OR
Captain Swing was a mythic name used in the letters written to the farmers of England in the month of June-August 1830 urging them to stop using machines that deprived workmen of their livelihood.

Answer 3:
Writ: A formal document containing an order of the court to the government issued only by High Court or the Supreme Court.

Answer 4:
Suez Canal

Answer 5:
Analysis of poverty is based on social exclusion and vulnerability.

Answer 6:
U.P, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Chattishgarh, parts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Answer 7:
One-third of the proposed jobs have been reserved for women.

Answer 8:
(i) Russia’s own industries were few in number and the country was cut off from other suppliers of industrial goods by German control of the Baltic Sea.
(ii) Industrial equipment disintegrated more rapidly in Russia than elsewhere in Europe. By 1916, railway lines began to break down.
(iii) Able-bodied men were called up to the war. As a result, there were labour shortages and small workshops producing essentials were shut down.
(iv) Large supplies of grain were sent to feed the army. For the people in the cities, bread and flour became scarce. By the winter of 1916, riots at bread shops were common.

Answer 9:

1. European foresters regarded shifting cultivation as harmful for the forests. They felt that land which was used for cultivation every few years could not grow trees for railway timber.
2. When a forest was burnt, there was the added danger of the flames spreading and burning valuable timber.
3. Shifting cultivation also made it harder for the government to calculate taxes. Therefore, the government decided to ban shifting cultivation. (Any two points)
4. As a result, many communities were forcibly displaced from their homes in the forests. Some had to change occupations, while some resisted through large and small rebellions.

OR

1. Like the Maasai, other pastoral groups were also forced to live within the confines of special reserves. The boundaries of these reserves became the limits within which they could now move.
2. They were not allowed to move out with their stock without special permits. Those found guilty of disobeying the rules were severely punished.
3. Pastoralists were also not allowed to enter the markets in white areas.

OR

1. During the Napoleonic Wars, prices of food grains were high and farmers expanded production vigorously. Fearing a shortage of labour, they began buying the new threshing machines that had come into the market.
2. They complained of the insolence of labourers, their drinking habits, and the difficulty of making them work. The machines, they thought, would help them reduce their dependence on labourers.
3. After the Napoleonic Wars had ended, thousands of soldiers when returned to the villages, found no alternative jobs to survive. But this was a time when grain from Europe began flowing into England, prices declined, and an Agricultural Depression set in and riots started.

Answer 10:
According to our election commission laws no party or candidate can:

1. Bribe or threaten voters
2. Appeal to voters in the name of caste or religion
3. Use government resources for election campaign
4. Spend not more than ₹25 lakhs in a constituency for Lok Sabha election or ₹10 lakhs in a constituency in an assembly election. (Any other relevant point)

Answer 11:
(i) The constitution of a country is a set of written rules that are accepted by all people living together in a country.
(ii) Constitution is the supreme law that determines the relationship among people living in a territory (called citizens).
(iii) It is also the relationship between the people and government.

Answer 12:
(i) Until 2000 every election was won by a party called PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). Opposition parties did contest elections, but never managed to win because PRI uses many dirty tricks to win elections.
(ii) All those who were employed in government offices had to attend its party meetings. Teachers of government schools used to force parents to vote for the PRI.
(iii) Media largely ignored the activities of opposition political parties except to criticise them.
(iv) Sometimes the polling booths were shifted from one place to another in the last minute, which made it difficult for people to cast their votes.
(v) The PRI spent a large sum of money in the campaign for its candidates.

Answer 13:
(i) Indus river
(ii) Length: 2900 km
(iii) Tributaries: Satluj and Beas

Answer 14:
(i) These trees are found in areas of heavy rainfall over 200 cm annually. They don’t have specific time to shed their leaves and always appear green throughout the year.
(ii) Characteristics: Height of trees up to 60 meters. The vegetation found in multi layered structure.
(iii) Examples of trees: Rosewood, rubber, mahogany etc.
(iv) Animals: Elephants, monkey, lemur, deer etc.

Answer 15:
(i) Farming is the main production activity in Palampur.
(ii) 75% of the people who are working are dependent on farming for their livelihood.
(iii) They could be farmers or farm labourers. The well-being of these people is closely related to production on the farms.

Answer 16:
(i) The health of a person helps him to realize his potential and ability to fight illness.
(ii) An unhealthy person may become a liability for his organization. Investment in human capital through health care yields just like in physical capital.
(iii) Healthier people earn higher income and add to the economic growth of the country.

Answer 17:
(i) Land area under cultivation is practically fixed. Since 1960 in Palampur, there has been no expansion in land area under cultivation.
(ii) Some of the wastelands in the village had been converted into cultivable land.
(iii) So, there exists no further scope to increase farm production by bringing new land under cultivation.

Answer 18:
Under the Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yozana (PMGY) launched in 2000, additional central assistance is given to states for basic services such as primary health, primary education, rural shelter, rural drinking water and rural electrification.

Answer 19:
Event:

1. When four members of the Assembly of Russian Workers, which had been formed in 1904, were dismissed at the Putilov Iron Works, there was a call for industrial action. Over the next few days over 110,000 workers in St Petersburg went on strike demanding a reduction in the working day to eight hours, an increase in wages and improvement in working conditions.
2. When the procession of workers led by Father Gapon reached the Winter Palace it was attacked by the police and the Cossacks. Over 100 workers were killed and about 300 wounded. The incident, known as Bloody Sunday, started a series of events that became known as the 1905 Revolution.

Impact:

1. Strikes took place all over the country and universities closed down when student bodies staged walkouts, complaining about the lack of civil liberties. Lawyers, doctors, engineers and other middle-class workers established the Union of Unions and demanded a constituent assembly.
2. During the 1905 Revolution, the Tsar allowed the creation of an elected consultative Parliament or Duma.
3. Most of the trade unions and committees worked illegally and Tsar dissolved the Duma.
4. This incident was considered as a ‘dressed rehearsal’ for a Revolution to occur in 1917.

Answer 20:

1. In India, the trade in forest products was not new. From the medieval period onwards, we have records of adivasi communities trading elephants and other goods like hides, horns, silk cocoons, ivory, bamboo, spices, fibres, grasses, gums and resins through nomadic communities like the Banjaras.
2. With the coming of the British, however, trade was completely regulated by the government. The British government gave many large European trading firms the sole right to trade in the forest products of particular areas.
3. Grazing and hunting by local people were restricted. In the process, many pastoralist and nomadic communities like the Korava, Karacha and Yerukula of the Madras Presidency lost their livelihoods. Some of them began to be called criminal tribes, and were forced to work instead in factories, mines and plantations, under government supervision.
4. Changes in trading pattern also affected working conditions of people living in places like Assam. Both men and women from forest communities like Santhals and Oraons from Jharkhand, and Gonds from Chhattisgarh were recruited to work in tea plantations.
5. Their wages were low and conditions of work were very bad. They could not return easily to their home villages from where they had been recruited.

OR

1.  In pre-colonial times Maasai society was divided into two social categories elders and warriors; the elders formed the ruling group and met in periodic councils to decide on the affairs of the community and settle disputes.
2. The warriors consisted of younger people, mainly responsible for the protection of the tribe. They defended the community and organised cattle raids. Raiding was important in a society where cattle were wealth.
3. It is through raids that the power of different pastoral groups was asserted. Young men came to be recognised as members of the warrior class when they proved their manliness by raiding the cattle of other pastoral groups and participating in wars. They, however, were subject to the authority of the elders.
4. To administer the affairs of the Maasai, the British introduced a series of measures that had important implications. They appointed chiefs of different sub-groups of Maasai, who were made responsible for the affairs of the tribe. The British imposed various restrictions on raiding and warfare which affected their traditional authority.
5. The chiefs appointed by the colonial government often accumulated wealth over time. They had a regular income with which they could buy animals, goods and land. (Any other relevant points)

OR

1. When wheat cultivation had expanded dramatically in the early nineteenth century, zealous farmers had recklessly uprooted all vegetation, and tractors had turned the soil over, and broken the sod into dust.
2. In the 1930s, terrifying dust storms began to blow over the southern plains. Black blizzards rolled in, very often 7,000 to 8,000 feet high, rising like monstrous waves of muddy water.
3. As the skies darkened, and the dust swept in, people were blinded and choked. Cattle were suffocated to death, their lungs caked with dust and mud.
4. Sand buried fences, covered fields, and coated the surfaces of rivers till the fish died. The wind blew with ferocious speed. But ordinary dust storms became black blizzards only because the entire landscape had been ploughed over, stripped of all grass that held it together.
   Lesson:
5. Respect the ecology.

Answer 21:
(i) Leaders keep changing in a democracy. This leads to instability.
(ii) Democracy is all about political competition and power play. There is no scope for morality.
(iii) So many people have to be consulted in a democracy that it leads to delays.
(iv) Elected leaders do not know the best interest of the people. It leads to bad decisions. Democracy leads to corruption for it is based on electoral competition.
(v) Ordinary people don’t know what is good for them; they should not decide anything.

Answer 22:
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes many rights that are not a part of the Fundamental Rights of Indian Constitution.

1. Right to work
2.  Right to safe and healthy working conditions.
3. Right to adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing.
4. Right to social security and insurance.
5. Right to health: Medical care during illness.
6. Right to Education: free and compulsory primary education and equal access to higher education.

Answer 23:
(i)  The proportion of poor people is not the same in every state. Recent estimates show that in 20 states and union territories, the poverty ratio is less than the national average.
(ii) Poverty is still a serious problem in Odisha, Bihar, Assam, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh. Along with rural poverty urban po verty is also high in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
(iii) In comparison, there has been a significant decline in poverty in Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and West Bengal.
(iv) States like Punjab and Haryana have traditionally succeeded in reducing poverty with the help of high agricultural growth rates. Kerala has focused more on human resource development.
(v) In West Bengal, land reform measures have helped in reducing poverty. In Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu public distribution of food grains could have been responsible for the improvement.

Answer 24:

1. Climate: It refers to the sum total of weather conditions and variations over a large area for a long period of time.
2. Climatic controls:
   • Latitude: Due to the curvature of the earth air temperature decreases from equator towards poles. Thus, the solar energy received on the earth is not uniform.
   •  Altitude: the atmosphere becomes less dense and temperature decreases. The hills are therefore cooler during summers.
   • Pressure and winds: The pressure and wind system of any area depend on the latitude and altitude of the place. Thus it influences the temperature and rainfall pattern.
   • Distance from the sea: As the distance from the sea increases, its moderating influence decreases and the people experience extreme weather conditions. This condition is known as continentality (i.e. very hot during summers and very cold during winters).

Answer 25:
(i) These trees are found in areas of heavy rainfall over 200 cm annually. They don’t have specific time to shed their leaves and always appear green through out the year.
(ii) Characteristics: Height of trees up to 60 meters. The vegetation found in multi layered structure.
(iii) Examples of trees: Rosewood, rubber, mahogany etc.
(iv) Animals: Elephants, monkey, lemur, deer etc.

Answer 26:

Answer 27:

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