SOF- National Science Olympiad

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Class 9th

DURATION:
DURATION 1 HOUR
: 90 Minutes M.MARKS: 60

General Instructions:

1. Immediately fill in the particulars on this page of the test booklet.

2. The test is of 60 minutes duration.

3. The test booklet consists of three section Logical Reasoning (10 Questions), Science (35 Questions) Achiever Section
(5 Questions).

4. This Paper consists of all Objective Type Questions.

5. Each Question in a Achiever Section carries 3 Marks and all other question carry 1 mark each. No negative marking
is there

Test Syllabus
Reasoning - Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning,
Science - Crop Production and Management, Microorganisms, Synthetic Fibres and Plastics, Metals and Non-
metals, Coal and Petroleum, Combustion and Flame, Conservation of Plants and Animals, Cell,
Reproduction and Endocrine System, Force and Pressure, Friction, Sound, Chemical Effects of Electric
Current, Some Natural Phenomena, Light, Stars and the Solar System, Pollution of Air and Water, Higher
Order Thinking Questions (As Per Upper Syllabus)
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SECTION-I (LOGICAL REASONING)

1. Pointing to a woman in a photograph, a man says, 5. In a certain code 'CERTAIN' is coded as 'BFQUZJM'.
“She is the grandmother of the son of my daughter in- How is 'MUNDANE' coded in that code?
law’s mother-in-law.” How is the woman related to (A) LVMEZOD
the man?
(B) NTCOMBF
(A) Mother (B) Sister
(C) Mother-in-law (D) Wife (C) NTOCNBF
(D) LTMCZOF
2. A watch which gains uniformly is 2 minutes low at
noon on Monday and is 4 min. 48 sec fast at 2 p.m. on
6. From his house, Lokesh went 15 km to the North.
the following Monday. When was it correct?
Then he turned west and covered 10 km. Then he
(A) 2 p.m. on Tuesday turned south and covered 5 km. Finally turning to the
(B) 2 p.m. on Wednesday east, he covered 10 km. In which direction is he from
(C) 3 p.m. on Thursday his house?
(D) 1 p.m. on Friday (A) East (B) West
(C) North (D) South

DIRECTIONS(3-4): In each of the following

questions two statements are given and these 7. In a School, there are 147 people, the ratio of girl and
statements are followed by two conclusions boy is 1:6. Soumya is a girl who stands 15th from the
numbered (1) and (2). You have to take the given two top of that row and 7 girls are in front of her. How
statements to be true even if they seem to be at many boys are behind her?
variance from commonly known facts. Read the (A) 120 (B) 121
conclusions and then decide which of the given (C) 119 (D) 124
conclusions logically follows from the two given
statements, disregarding commonly known facts.
8. Which day of the week was on 17th October, 2000 ?
(A) Tuesday
3. Statements: All the trucks are flies.
(B) Wednesday
Some scooters are flies.
(C) Saturday
Conclusions: (D) Sunday
1. All the trucks are scooters.
2. Some scooters are trucks. 9. If A + B means A is the mother of B; A - B means A
(A) Only (1) conclusion follows is the brother B; A % B means A is the father of B
(B) Only (2) conclusion follows and A × B means A is the sister of B, which of the
following shows that P is the maternal uncle of Q?
(C) Either (1) or (2) follows
(A) Q - N + M × P
(D) Neither (1) nor (2) follows
(B) P + S × N – Q
(C) P - M + N × Q
4. Statements: All buildings are chalks. (D) Q - S % P
No chalk is toffee.
Conclusions: 10. Find the number of triangle in the given figure.
1. No building is toffee
2. All chalks are buildings.
(A) Only (1) conclusion follows
(B) Only (2) conclusion follows
(C) Either (1) or (2) follows
(A) 12 (B) 18
(D) Neither (1) nor (2) follows
(C) 22 (D) 26
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SECTION-II (PHYSICS)
11. Which law of thermodynamics states that energy 17. A person standing 10 meters away from a cliff shouts
cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or loudly. If the speed of sound is 340 m/s, how long
converted from one form to another? does it take for the echo to return to the person?
(A) First law of thermodynamics (A) 0.15 seconds (B) 0.29 seconds
(B) Second law of thermodynamics (C) 0.59 seconds (D) 1.18 seconds
(C) Third law of thermodynamics
18. A wire of resistance 6 ohms is stretched to double its
(D) Zeroth law of thermodynamics original length. What will be the new resistance of the
wire?
(A) 1 ohm (B) 2 ohms
12. When light passes from air into glass, it tends to: (C) 3 ohms (D) 4 ohms
(A) Speed up
(B) Slow down 19. A concave mirror forms a real, inverted image of an
(C) Change direction object. If the object is moved closer to the mirror,
(D) Disperse what happens to the image's size?
(A) It becomes smaller.
13. Which of the following types of electromagnetic (B) It becomes larger.
waves has the highest frequency? (C) It remains the same size.
(A) Radio waves (B) Microwaves (D) It disappear
(C) X-rays (D) Infrared radiation
20. When a ray of light enters a glass slab from air at an
angle of incidence of 45 degrees, what will be the
14. A ray of light passes from air into glass (n = 1.5).
angle of refraction inside the glass? (Refractive index
If the angle of incidence is 30 degrees, what is the
of glass = 1.5)
angle of refraction?
(A) 15 degrees (B) 30 degrees
(A) 30 degrees (B) 45 degrees
(C) 45 degrees (D) 60 degrees
(C) 60 degrees (D) 90 degrees
21. What is the name of the fundamental particle
15. What is the phenomenon that causes the apparent
associated with the gravitational force?
change in frequency or pitch of a sound wave as the
source or observer is moving relative to each other? (A) Graviton (B) Photon
(A) Reflection (B) Diffraction (C) Proton (D) Electron
(C) Doppler effect (D) Refraction
22. A force of 20 N is applied to an object at an angle of
60 degrees to the horizontal. What is the horizontal
16. A 2 kg object is initially at rest. If a force of 10 N is component of the force?
applied to it for 5 seconds, what is its final velocity? (A) 10 N (B) 20 N
(A) 1 m/s (B) 2 m/s (C) 15 N (D) 5 N
(C) 5 m/s (D) 10 m/s

SECTION-III (CHEMISTRY)
23. How many electrons are present in the outermost 26. The weight of a residue obtained by heating 2.76 g of
shell of aluminium? silver carbonate is
(A) 0 (B) 1 (A) 2.76 (B) 2.96 g
(C) 2 (D) 3 (C) 2.16 g (D) 2.44 g

24. The volume of oxygen necessary for complete 27. The shell or orbits are in atom denoted by
combustion of 20 litre of propane is _____ litres.
(A) K, L, M, N …. (B) a, b, c, d …..
(A) 40 (B) 60
(C) A, B, C, D ….. (D) P, Q, R, S …
(C) 80 (D) 100

28. Write the formula for the compound of Ca2+ and CIO.
25. Who measured the e/m value of electron?
(A) Ca(ClO) (B) Ca2(ClO)2
(A) Dalton (B) Rutherford
(C) Ca2(ClO) (D) Ca(ClO)2
(C) Goldstein (D) Millikan
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29. What is the formula of the compound of magnesium 31. Neutrons are present in all elements except
and nitrogen? (A) H (B) He
(A) Mg3N2 (B) Mg2N3 (C) C (D) Ne
(C) Mg3N4 (D) Mg2N
32. Which species of phosphorus is most stable?
30. Number of electrons in sodium ion (Na+) and oxide
ion, (O2–) are (A) P (B) P1–
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) P2– (D) P3–
(C) 10 (D) 11

SECTION-IV (BIOLOGY)
33. Which of the following is a free living nitrogen fixing
bacterium present in soil:
(A) Azotobacter (B) Nitrosomonas
(C) Rhizobium (D) Pseudomonas
34. Which of the following statements is correct?
(A) Degenerative diseases are non-communicable.
(B) Allergy is caused by droplet infection.
(C) Cholera is a viral disease.
(D) AIDS can be prevented by vaccination.
35. Sponges and coelenterates resemble each other in
being:
(A) Monoblastic and acoelomate
(B) Diploblastic and acoelomate
(C) One single opening and coelomate
(D) Triploblastic and pseudocoelomates
39. Leech, Nereis, Scolopendra, Prawn and Scorpion all
have segmented body organisation, but still they
cannot be classified in one group. Which of the
following is the correct basis for the classification of
these organisms into different groups?
(A) Leech and Nereis belong to the Phylum Annelida
because they have metamerically segmented
body.
(B) Scolopendra, prawn and scorpion belong to
Phylum Arthropoda, as they possess jointed
appendages.
(C) Leech, Nereis and Scolopendra belong to
Phylum Annelida because they possess closed
blood vascular system.
(D) Both (A) and (B)
40. Study the given flow chart regarding some cell
organelles present in a cell.

36. Chemical nature of ribosomes is:

(A) Beta galactosidase.
(B) Proteins and lipids.
(C) Glucose and sucrose.
(D) Proteins and RNA.

37. Community health aims at:

(A) Better health and family planning.
(B) Better hygiene and clean environment.
(C) Removing communicable diseases.
(D) All of the above.
38. If all mitochondria are removed from the cell:
(A) Nothing happens.
(B) Energy metabolism of cell gets reduced.
(C) The cell cannot reproduce.
(D) Leaves become white.
Which of the following options is incorrect regarding
X, Y and Z?
(A) Organelle X can transform solar energy into
chemical energy of carbohydrates.
(B) Enzymes of organelle Y are present in the
acrosome of human sperm cell which digest the
limiting membrane of ovum during fertilization.
(C) On starvation, organelle Z digests stored food
contents and other cellular components; this
process is called as autophagy.
(D) Organelle X can bring about stepwise oxidation
of carbohydrates to produce CO2 and water
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41. Which of the following is not the correct pairing of (A) Cold (B) Food
structure with function? (C) Oxygen (D) Timber
(A) Golgi complex : breakdown of complex 44. In a natural ecosystem, decomposers include:
molecules
(A) Bacteria & fungi
(B) Mitochondria : Production of ATP
(B) Parasitic algae
(C) Endoplasmic reticulum : synthesis of proteins
(C) Macroscopic animals
(D) Chloroplast : photosynthesis
(D) All of the above.
42. The bacterial nucleus is called:
(A) Nucleus (B) Nucleoid 45. Estuary is the meeting point of:
(C) Nucleolus (D) None of these (A) River with lake
(B) River with oceans
43. If the plants of world die, all the animals will also die (C) Sea with ocean
due to the shortage of: (D) Lake with ocean

SECTION-V (ACHIEVER)
46. What is the phenomenon where an object appears to (A) a - 1, b - 3, c - 2, d – 4
shift its position when viewed from different angles, (B) a - 2, b - 4, c - 1, d – 3
and it’s often used to 3D movies?
(C) a - 3, b - 2, c - 1, d – 4
(A) Parallax (B) Holography
(C) Interference (D) Polarization (D) a - 2, b - 4, c - 3, d – 1

47. Select the correct statement. 50. Complete the given statements by selecting the
(A) Substance having melting point -40°C and correct words from the options given below.
boiling point 65°C will have maximum (a) __(i)__ is a traditional method of irrigation.
interparticle forces at -35°C.
(b) __(ii)__ is a common weedicide.
(B) Substance having melting point -110°C and
boiling point 25°C, will exist only in liquid state (c) In __(iii)__, water escapes from revolving
at -110°C. nozzle and falls like rain on the crops.
(C) Substance having melting point -10°C will have (d) __(iv)__ is a technique for developing new
minimum interparticle distance at 15°C. varieties of crops by cross-breeding two
(D) Substance having melting point 90°C and different varieties.
boiling point 267°C will exist in solid state at
room temperature. (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(A) Dhekli Agent Drip Broadcasting
48. Which sample contains the largest number of atoms? orange irrigation
(A) 1 mg of C4H10 (B) 1 mg of N2 (B) Dhekli DDT Chain Crop
(C) 1 mg of Na (D) 1 mL of water pump rotation
(C) Rahat Siniazine Moat Mixed
49. Match the following and choose the correct option. cropping
a. Osteocytes 1. Fluid connective tissue (D) Rahat Metachlor Sprinkler Hybridization
b. Schwann cells 2. Skeletal tissue system
c. Thrombocyte 3. Areolar connective tissue
d. Fibroblast 4. Nervous tissue
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