Periodic Test – 1 (2025-26)
Class X Social Science
Timing- 90 minutes MM. – 40
General Instructions
The question paper comprises Five Sections – A, B, C, D, and E. . All questions are compulsory.
2- Marks are indicated in each section.
Section A MCQ(1x10=10)
Que.1- Kerala has low Infant Mortality Rate because it has adequate provision of basic -
a. Health facilities b. Educational facilities
c. Industrial growth d. Democratic government
Options:
(A) Only 1 options are correct (B) All the reasons are correct
(C) Only 3 options are correct (D) Only 2 options are correct
Que2- Choose the odd one from the given below -
a. Country's defence, communication and police
b. Commerce, agriculture and irrigation
c. Trade unions, marriage and education
d. Banking, foreign affairs and currency
Que.3- Consider the following statements about power sharing arrangements in India and identify the correct one.
a. There is only one level of government.
b. Opposition party has no right to oppose ruling party.
c. There are provisions for reserved constituencies.
d. Executive has more power as compared to legislative and judiciary
Que.4- There are two columns, Column A shows Region of Erosion and Column B shows possible causes of erosion.
Analyse these two columns to choose the correct answer.
Column A Column B
(i)
Landless rural labourers (A) Right to equality
(ii) H Marginalised section (B) Rise in demand
(iii). Producer of goods and services (C) Work and better wages
a. (i) - (A) (ii) - (B) (iii) - (C) b. (i) - (B) (ii) - (C) (iii) - (A)
c. (i) - (C) (ii) - (A) (iii) - (B) d. (i) - (A) (ii) - (B) (iii) - (C)
Que.5 - What are the two reason makes power sharing desirable?
Que.6 - According to nutrition scientist calculation of nourishment is called.............
Que.7 - The Rio Convention endorsed the .................. and adopted............... for achieving.............
Que.8 - Define the term current fallow land and other than current fallow land.
Assertion(A) and reason(R) based questions.
Select the correct answers of these questions on the basis of these codes.
A) Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of assertion.
B) Both A and R are true and R is not correct explanation of assertion.
C) A is true R is false.
D) A is falls R is true.
Que.9- Assertion(A)- Depletion of resources for satisfying the greed of a few individual
Reason (R) Accumulation of resources in few hands which, in turn, divided the society into two segments - haves and
have nots or rich and poor.
Que.10- Assertion (A) The lateritic soil develops under tropical and subtropical climate with alternate wet and dry
season.
Reason (R) This soil is the result of intense leaching due to heavy rainfall.
Section -B.(1X6=6)
Fill in the blanks
Que.11- Gandhian philosophy was once again presented by Schumacher in his book.............
Que.12 - Water logging leads to increase in............ and ...........in the soil.
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Que.13 - .................... is also called average income.
Que.14- literacy rate measures the proportion of literate population in the ,.................. and above age group.
Read the following statement weather they are true or false.
Que.15- Alliance and the coalition government is the same thing.
Que.16- Write down the limitations of use of averages.
Section -C Short answer type question(2×2 + 2x3 =10)
Que. 17- Mention any two development goal of a landless rural labourers.
Que.18- Write horizontal and vertical power sharing in modern democracies.
Section D -Long answer type questions(2x4=8)
Que.19- Why planning is the widely accepted strategy for judicious use of resources? Justify with suitable example.
Or
Define alluvial and black soil.
Que.20-Money cannot buy all the goods and services that one needs to leave well explain
Or
Why is sustainability important for development explain.
Section E (6marks)
21- Read the text given below and answer the following questions.
Restructuring the Centre-State relations is one more way in which federalism has been
strengthened in practice. How the constitutional arrangements for sharing power work
in reality depends to a large extent on how the ruling parties and leaders follow these
arrangements. For a long time, the same party ruled both at the Centre and in most of
the States. This meant that the State Governments did not exercise their rights as
autonomous federal units. As and when the ruling party at the State level was different,
the parties that ruled at the Centre tried to undermine the power of the States. In those
days, the Central Government would often misuse the Constitution to dismiss the State
Governments that were controlled by rival parties. This undermined the spirit of federalism.
(i) Constitutional arrangements for sharing power work depends on:
a. same party rule at both centre and states.
b. how ruling parties follow them.
c. strength of federalism.
d. rights of state as autonomous federal units.
(ii) The basic objective of a federal system is to:
a. accommodate regional diversity.
b. share powers among different communities.
c. Both a, and b.
d. ensure financial autonomy.
(iii) Having the rulers with ethical values is important. Why?
Que22 - Map Skills (2x1=2)
Locate on the political map of India.
A) Black soil
B) Desert soil
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