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Class X Social Science Holiday Homework
Prepared By: - Rashika Zaveri & Rayba Saindane

Instructions:-
o Work will be posted on Flinnt.
o Do your work neatly and systematically.
o After you finish your work, click and upload neat and legible copy on Flinnt to your
subject teacher, on or before June 7, 2020. Work submitted after that will not be
accepted and assessed.
o Assessment of your work will be considered for internal assessment for Term I.

Index

Sr. No. Topic Week Page.No.

1 PPT on Disaster Management First 2

2 Worksheet (MCQ) Second 2

3 Worksheet (Textual Qustions) Third 3

4 Mapwork Fourth 3

5 Worksheet – Differentiate between Fifth 4

First week: from May 07 to May 13, 2020

1. Prepare a PPT on “Disaster Management”:

Key Points:
What is Disaster Management?
Select any disaster of your choice (earthquake, landslide, floods etc) and elaborate the following:
➢ How you can tackle the situation and some measures to control it.
➢ Prepare awareness among people.
➢ Explain with some pictures showing disaster and disaster management.

Second Week: from May 14 to May 19, 2020

Worksheet – Choose the most appropriate answer:

1. What was the Bretton wood system?
a. Post war the military system c. Post war international economic system
b. Post war political system d. None of these

2. What did indentured labour mean?

a. Cheap Labour c. Bonded Labour
b. Free Labour d. None of these

3. What were ‘Canal Colonies’?

a. Large Colonies c. Large Canals
b. Sea Ports d. Irrigated areas

4. Which food travelled west from china to be called “Spaghetti’?

a. Soya c. Potato
b. Groundnuts d. Noodles

5. Which disease spread like wild fire in Africa in the 1890’s?

a. Cattle plague c. Pneumonia
b. Small pox d. None of these

6. Which was the Fabled city of gold?

a. Peru c. El Doeodo
b. Mexico d. Spain

7. Who adopted the concept of assembly line to produce automobiles?

a. Samuel Morse c. T. Cuppla
b. Henry Ford d. Imam Husain

8. The Descendants of indentures workers is a Noble Prize winning writer is-

a. Bob Morley c. Amartya Sen
b. V. S. Naipaul d. Ram Naresh Sarwan

9. The great Depression begin in

a. 1927 c. 1929
b. 1928 d. 1930

10. The Chutney music popular in -

a. North America c. Japan
b. South America d. China
Third week: from 20 May to 25 May, 2020

Answer the following questions:

1. Name the route which knitted together vast regions of Asia, and linked Asia with Europe and
Northern Africa.
2. Who discovered America?
3. Which disease proved deadly killer for people of America?
4. Which law restricts the British Government to restrict the import of corn?
5. Who was V S Naipaul?
6. Name the countries which were considered allied powers.
7. Who made the best cost cutting decision?
8. What was the time period of Great Depression?
9. The common foods were not known to our ancestors. Name some of the common foods.
10. In the mid -1940s Ireland’s thousands of poorest peasants died of starvation. Why?
11. Why all over the world some 150 millions are estimated to have left their homes, crossed
oceans and settle down in vast distances?
12. Which was the most powerful weapon used by Spanish to conquer America?
13. Which method was used by Henry Ford to increase car production?
14. Which food item came from Arab region to Sicily?
15. What is meant by Rinderpest?
16. When were the first Multinational Companies established?
17 What are cowries?
18. What was the importance of the Indian trade for the British?
19. How did Bretton Woods System work?
20. What were the effects of the British Government’s decision to abolish the corn laws?

Fourth Week: from May 26 to May 30, 2020

3A. Locate and label the following on the political map of India: Ch. 2. (Nationalism in India)
a. The place where the Indian National Congress Session was held in 1929
b. Nagpur 1920, Calcutta 1920.
c. Cotton mill worker’s Satyagraha.
d. ChamparanSatyagraha.
e. Dandi March
3B. Locate and label the following on a blank map of India: Ch. 1. Resources & Development
(pg.9 of Text Book)

a. Forest and mountain soil

b. Alluvial Soil
c. Red and yellow soil
d. Black soil
e. Laterite soil
f. Arid soil
Fifth week: May 31 to June 5, 2020

Differentiate between:
a. Primary sector, secondary sector and tertiary sector.
b. Public sector and Private sector
c. Organised sector and unorganised sector
d. Economic activities and non-economic activities.
e. Personal goals and country goals.

STAY HOME, STAY SAFE.

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS.

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