PM SHRI KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA AFS BORJHAR
(2025-26)
SUMMER VACATION HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
CLASS- IX SUB- SCIENCE
I. Draft an innovative project idea for INSPIRE award, RBVP or NCSC
II. Complete writing practical experiment works in practical note book for term 1.
III. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS- (CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION)
1. Soni visited a Natural Gas Compressing Unit and found that the gas can be liquefied under specific
conditions of temperature and pressure. While sharing her experience with friends she got confused.
Help her to identify the correct set of conditions.
(a) Low temperature, low pressure
(b) High temperature, low pressure
(c) Low temperature, high pressure
(d) High temperature, high pressure
2.The property to flow is unique to fluids. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) Only gases behave like fluids.
(b) Gases and solids behave like fluids.
(c) Gases and liquids behave like fluids.
(d) Only liquids are fluids.
3.During summer, water kept in an earthen pot becomes cool because of the phenomenon of
(a) diffusion (b) transpiration (c) osmosis (d) evaporation.
4. A few substances are arranged in the increasing order of forces of attraction between their particles.
Which one of the following represents a correct arrangement?
(a)Water, air, wind (b) Air, sugar, oil
(c) Oxygen, water, sugar (d) Salt, juice, air
5. On converting 25°C, 38°C and 66°C to Kelvin scale, the correct sequence of temperature will be
(a) 298K, 311K and 339K (b)298K, 300K and 338K
(c) 273 K, 278 K and 543 K (d)298K, 310K and 338K
6. Which condition out of the following will increase the evaporation of water?
(a) Increase in temperature of water (b)Decrease in temperature of water
(c) Less exposed surface area of water (d) Adding common salt to water
7. A student adds in k to water. The ink particles spread throughout the water. Which property of water
allows other particles to diffuse in it?
(a) Fixed volume (b)inability to compress
(c) inter molecular spaces (d)ability to change shape
8. Cooking gas is known as LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas). How can a gas be liquefied?
(a) When pressure is applied to the gas
(b) When temperature of the gas is in creased
(c) When gas is mixed with a liquid substitute
(d) When the force of attraction between particle is reduced
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IV. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
(1).Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion. CoMment.
(2) Water as ice has a cooling effect, where as water as steam may cause severe burns. Explain these
observations.
(3) You are provided with a mixture of naphthalene and ammonium chloride by your teacher. Suggest
an activity to separate them with well labeled diagram.
(4)Which gas is called dry ice? Why?
5. How does evaporation differ from boiling?(3Points)
6. Anil parked his bicycle on a sunny day in a parking stand of his school campus. When the school got
over Anil saw his burst cycle tyres. Thereafter he kept less air in his cycle tyres and did not inflate them
fully.
(a) Why did the type burst?
(b) Why is air compressible?
The temperature-time graph given along side shows the heating curve for pure wax.
From the graph answer the following:
(a) What is the physical state of the substance at the points A, B, C and D?
(b) What is the melting point of the substance?
(c) What is its boiling point?
(d) Which portions of the graph indicates that change of state is taking lace?
(e) Name the terms used for heat absorbed during change of states involved in above process.
Q7. (a) Name the changes in the terms of process P, Q, R and S?
8. The diagram below shows burning of an oil lamp.
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Draw the arrangement of particles of position ‘X’ and ‘Y’ when the lamp is burning.
