Holy Family Convent School, Gohana

First Term Examination (2020-21)

Subject: SST
Class: IX M.M- 80
General instructions:
(i) The question paper has 27 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Questions from serial number 1 to 7 are very short answer type questions.
Each carries one mark.
(iii) Questions from serial number 8 to 18 are 3 marks questions. Answer of these
questions should not exceed 80 words each.
(iv) Questions from serial number 19 to 25 are 5 marks questions. Answer of these
questions should not exceed 120 words each.
(v) Question number 26 & 27 are map questions of 5 marks.

1) What does ‘Subsistence crisis’ mean?

2) How do we come to know about Holocaust today?

3) Name the place situated on three seas of India.

4) Which part of Himalayas are called Punjab Himalayas?

5) How democracy allows us to create its own mistakes?

6) Who was the chairman of the Constituent Assembly?

7) Name the main and the other activities of the village of palampur.

8) How did women suffer in France?

9) What kind of education was given in the Nazi school?

10) What is meant by Indian standard time?

11) What are the characteristics of the coastal plains of India?

12) Give examples of the countries which do not provide equal rights to vote.

13) What are the main functions of the Constitution?

14) How did the spread of electricity help farmers in palampur?

15) What is the role of health in human capital formation?

16) What is disguised unemployment? Explain.

17) What promises did Hitler make to the Germans when he came to power?
18) Give three features of Deccan Plateau.

19) Which groups of French society benefited from the revolution? Which groups were forced
to relinquish power? Which sections of the society would have disappointed with the outcome
of the revolution?

20) What were the peculiar features of Nazi thinking?

21) Why is the difference between the durations of the day and night hardly felt in
Kanyakumari but not so in Kashmir?

22) Distinguish between:-

Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats.

23) “Democracy is considered the best form of government ‘. Explain.

24) What are the merits and demerits of Green Revolution?

25) People are considered as the greatest resource of a country. Explain.

MAP:-

26) On the given map of France, locate and label the following:-

(a) Bordeaux

(b) Marseilles

27) On the political map of India, locate the following features:-

(a) Standard Meridian

(b) K2

(C) Sambhar Lake

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