MODEL TEST PAPER – 4

[For Summative Assessment-1 (Term-I) to be held in September, 2010 & onwards]

(Based on the latest CBSE Sample Paper released by C.B.S.E., New Delhi in July, 2010)

Maximum Marks : 80 Maximum Time : 3 - 31/2 hours

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SECTION-A

1. Name an exotic variety of honey bee grown in India.

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2. Suggest a technique for the separation of mixture containing oil and water.
3. How can you calculate acceleration from a velocity-time graph?
4. What is a lactometer used for?

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5. Two miscible liquids A and B are present in a solution. The boiling point of A is
55°C, while that of B is 85°C. Suggest and explain briefly, a method to separate
them.

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6. An artificial satellite is moving in a circular orbit of radius 42250 km. Calculate
its speed, if it takes 24 hours to revolve around the earth.

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7. Write one point of difference between the following :

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(a) Bone and Cartilage (b) Simple tissue and complex tissue.

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8. Water hyacinth floats on water surface. Explain.
9. State two differences between speed and velocity.

10. What are the desirable agronomic characteristics for crop improvement?

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11. (a) State Newton’s third law of motion.

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(b) State two factors which determine the force possessed a body.
12. Identify the solute and solvent in :
(a) Sugar solution (b) Soda water
13. A bar of gold is found to have a mass of 100 g and weight of 0.98 N at some
place. When the bar is taken to some place at the equator, it is found that the
mass remains 100 g, but the weight is less than 0.98 N. Explain the above
observations.
14. (a) How will you prove the presence of diffused air in fresh water?
(b) State the factors which determine the rate of diffusion of a liquid in another
liquid.
15. Discuss three kinds of irrigation systems adopted in India.
16. For any substance, why does the temperature remain constant during change of
state?

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17. By giving one example of each, define : (a) uniform velocity. (b) variable
velocity and
(c) average velocity.
18. What is the difference between prokaryotic cell and eukaryotic cell?
19. A girl walks along a straight path to drop a letter in the letterbox and comes
back to her initial position. Her displacement-time graph is shown in the figure.
Plot a velocity-time graph for the same.

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20. (a) State the SI units of Thrust and Pressure.
(b) In which situation we exert more pressure when we stand on the foot or on the
both feet. Justify your answer.

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(c) State Newton's law of gravitation.
21. (a) Why should preventive measures and biological control methods be preferred

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for protecting crops?
(b) What factors may be responsible for losses of grains during storage?.

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22. A train is travelling at a speed of 90 kmh–1. Brakes are applied so as to produce a
uniform acceleration of – 0.5 ms–2 . Find how far the train will go, before it is
brought to rest.
23. How are sol, solution and suspension different from each other?

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(a) Distinguish between a mixture and a compound. (any 4 points)
(b) A saturated solution of potassium chloride in water is prepared at 353 K.
State what is observed as the solution cools.
24. How do substances like CO2 and water move in and out of the cell? Discuss.

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Make a comparison and write down ways in which plant cells are different from
animal cells.

25. A driver of car travelling at 52 kmh–1 applies brakes and accelerates uniformly
in the opposite direction. The car stops in 5 s. Another driver going at 3 kmh–
1 in another car applies his brakes slowly and stops in 10 s. On the same graph
paper, plot the speed versus time graphs for the two cars. Which of the two cars
travelled farther after the brakes were applied?

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An object of mass 1 kg travelling in a straight line with a velocity of 10 ms–1
collides with and sticks to a stationary wooden block of mass 5 kg. Then they
both move off together in the same straight line. Calculate the total momentum
just before the impact and just after the impact. Also, calculate the velocity of
combined object.

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26. The type of chemical reaction between barium chloride and sodium sulphate is :
(a) chemical combination
(c) chemical displacement

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(b) chemical decomposition
(d) chemical double displacement.

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27. Acid used to detect the presence of metanil yellow in dal is :
(d) COOH

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(a) HNO 3 (b) HCl (c) H 2SO 4

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28. At 0°C or 273° K, the physical state of water is observed as :
(a) Solid (b) Liquid (c) Vapour
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(d) Both solid and liquid

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29. When the test tube containing, lead nitrate is heated it :
(a) melts only (b) directly changes into gaseous form

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(c) melts and then changes into gaseous form
(d) breaks into fine white crystals with a decrepitating sound.

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30. Which portion of the temp-time graph showing heating of ice at –10°C to water at
100°C, (when heated at a constant rate) represents change of state on heating.

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(a) AB, BC (b) CD, DE (c) DE, BC (d) AB, CD
31. The colloidal solution of albumin in water is subjected to filtration. The colour of
the filtrate is :
(a) colourless (b) pale yellow in colour
(c) slightly milky white (d) none of these
32. Common sugar is chemically :
(a) glucose (b) maltose (c) sucrose (d) lactose

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33. You have prepared four different mixtures in water. If you filter these mixtures through
a filter paper, there will be no residue left after filtration in the case of :
(a) charcoal powder (b) chalk powder
(c) slaked lime (d) detergent powder
34. A mixture of iron filings and sulphur is heated, the colour of the mixture will change from
(a) black to yellow (b) yellow to black (c) black to brown (d) brown to yellow
35. The cells placed under a microscope appear uni-nucleate, thin walled and polygonal in
shape. It is a :
(a) nerve cell (b) sclerenchyma (c) parenchyma (d) striped muscle

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36. To prepare iron sulphide, by heating a mixture of iron filings and sulphur powder, we
should use a :
(a) copper dish (b) watch glass (c) china dish (d) petri dish
37. Cheek cells are :
(a) epithelial cells

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(c) muscle cells
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(b) connective tissue cells
(d) neurons

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38. On heating a mixture of common salt and ammonium chloride with the proper set up in
the laboratory it is observed that :
(a) solid common salt gets deposited on the cooler parts of the funnel while solid

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ammonium chloride remains in the china dish.
(b) mixture of common salt and ammonium chloride turns into greenish crystals when
allowed to cool.

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(c) ammonium chloride gets deposited on the cooler parts of the funnel and solid
common salt remains in the china dish.

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(d) droplets containing both common salt and ammonium chloride appear on the upper
part of the funnel.
39. You are asked to select a slide, showing parenchyma cells from a slide box containing
a few unlabelled slides. Which of the following would help you to correctly identify the

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slide?
(a) Structure of the cells as seen under low power of the compound microscope.

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(b) Observing the slide with the help of a simple microscope.
(c) A colour of the material on the slide.
(d) None of the above.
40. In a mixture of nitre (potassium nitrate) and chalk, the potassium nitrate can be
recovered by the process of :
(a) sieving (b) filtration
(c) dissolving in water followed by filtration and collection of filtrate and then its
evaporation
(d) decantation followed by filtration.
41. When a cell is mounted in glycerine :
(a) endosmosis takes place (b) exosmosis takes place
(c) neither exosmosis nor endosmosis takes place
(d) none of the above
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