Practice Paper - 5

Time Allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
(i) The question paper comprises two sections, A and B. You are to attempt both the sections.
(ii) All questions are compulsory. However, an internal choice will be provided in two questions of 3 marks
each and one question of 5 marks.
(iii) Question numbers 1 to 2 in Section A are one-mark questions. These are to be answered in one word or
in one sentence.
(iv) Question numbers 3 to 5 in Section A are two-marks questions. These are to be answered in about
30 words each.
(v) Question numbers 6 to 15 in Section A are three-marks questions. These are to be answered in about
50 words each.
(vi) Question numbers 16 to 21 in Section A are five-marks questions. These are to be answered in about
70 words each.
(vii) Question numbers 22 to 27 in Section B are two-marks questions based on practical skills. These are to
be answered in brief.

Section - A 9. For making cake, baking powder is used. If at

home, your mother uses baking soda instead
1. Name two components of an ecosystem.
of baking powder in cake,
2. Why should a magnesium ribbon be cleaned (a) how will it affect the taste of the cake and
before burning in air? why?
3. The elements of the second period of the (b) how can baking soda be converted into
Periodic Table are given below : baking powder?
Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F (c) what is the role of tartaric acid added to
Explain why atomic radius decreases from Li baking soda?
to F. 10. Answer the following questions :
4. Bio-gas is a better fuel than animal dung cakes. (i) An element ‘X’ does not react with dilute
Justify this statement stating four reasons. acids but produces an oxide XO on
heating, which is basic in nature. What
5. Why are soaps not suitable for washing
do you infer about ‘X’ from the above
clothes with hard water? behaviour?
6. What measures would you take to conserve (ii) Highly reactive metals are obtained
electricity in your house? by the electrolytic reduction of their
OR compounds. Why?
Industrialisation is one main cause of 11. Draw a neat diagram of human brain and
deterioration of environment. Discuss. label on it the following parts:
(i) Midbrain (ii) Pituitary gland
7. (a) What is the filtering unit of kidney?
(iii) Cerebellum (iv) Cerebrum
(b) Why is it called so?
12. Rahul once went to a construction site along
8. How is the refractive index of a medium with his father. There he saw large cranes
related to the speed of light? Obtain an lifting heavy iron rods. After sometimes, he
expression for refractive index of a medium noticed that all the cranes were lifting a bunch
with respect to another in terms of speed of of iron rods and unloading it to other places.
Time Allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 80

light in these two media? He was surprised and then enquired the crane
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man about it. The crane man then explained
the use of electricity in lifting the load.
(a) According to you, which effect of
electricity is used in cranes?
(b) How electromagnet is formed?
(c) Which qualities were shown by the crane
man?
13. A person cannot see an object beyond 2 m
distinctly. Name the defect he is suffering
from. What should be the (i) nature, (ii) focal
length and (iii) power of the lens that will
correct his vision?
14. Why variations are more pronounced in
sexual reproduction than in asexual one?
15. A current of 1 ampere flows in a series circuit
containing an electric lamp and a conductor
of 5 when connected to a 10 V battery.
Calculate the resistance of the electric lamp.
Now if a resistance of 10 is connected in
parallel with this series combination, what
change (if any) in current flowing through
5 conductor and potential difference across
the lamp will take place? Give reason.
OR
The direction of electric current passed
through a vertical wire and through a
horizontal card board is shown below:
Sketch the pattern of the magnetic field
on the card around the wire. Indicate the
direction of the magnetic field at any one
point. How would you check this direction
experimentally?
16. Silver articles generally turns black when
kept in open for a few days. The articles when
rubbed with toothpaste again start shining.
(i) Why do they turn black? Name the
phenomenon involved.
(ii) Write the chemical reaction involved in
the process.
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(iii) Name the black substance formed and
write its formula.
OR
Explain the following :
(a) Reactivity of Al decreases if it is dipped
in HNO3.
(b) Carbon cannot reduce the oxides of Na
or Mg.
(c) NaCl is not a conductor of electricity
in solid state whereas it does conduct
electricity in aqueous solution as well as
in molten state.
(d) Iron articles are galvanised.
(e) Metals like Na, K, Ca and Mg are never
found in their free state in nature.
17. A metal carbonate ‘X’ on reacting with an
acid gives a gas which when passed through a
solution ‘Y’ gives the carbonate back. On the
other hand, a gas ‘G’ that is obtained at anode
during electrolysis of brine is passed on dry
‘Y’, gives a compound ‘Z’, used for disinfecting
drinking water. Identify X, Y, G and Z.
18. Write laws of refraction. Explain the same
with the help of ray diagram, when a ray of
light passes through a rectangular glass slab.
19. Why does a magnetic compass needle
pointing north and south in the absence of
a nearby magnet get deflected when a bar
magnet or a current carrying loop is brought
near it? Describe some salient features of
magnetic lines of field concept.
20. What is placenta? Mention its role during
pregnancy.
21. Describe the different pathways of breakdown
of glucose in living organisms.
Section - B
22. Take a large shining spoon. View your face
into its curved surfaces and note down the
characteristics of the images formed.
What do you conclude from the observations
made?
23. A student has placed a coin at the bottom of
a beaker filled with water. He was asked to
estimate its depth by observing with his eye
to a side above the water level. He found that
the estimated depth determined is less than
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the real depth of the coin in water. Explain the 26. Label any two parts in the given figure and
observation. write about it.
24. If 2 mL of dilute acetic acid is added to
a test tube containing powdered sodium
bicarbonate, what will you observe? Write a
balanced chemical equation of the reaction
taking place and also the chemical name of
the salt formed.
25. Write the chemical names for three different 27. Write any two precautions to be taken for a
soaps. What heat change do you observe successful run of the experiment to show
when soap is being prepared by stirring oil that carbon dioxide is given out during
with caustic soda solution? respiration.