BANGALORE SAHODAYA SCHOOLS COMPLEX

ASSOCIATION (BSSCA)
PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION –TERM -II (2021-2022)
SET - 1
Date:28/02/2022 Max. Marks:40
Subject: Science (086) Time: 2 Hours

General Instructions:
i) All questions are compulsory.
ii) The question paper has three sections and 15 questions. All questions are compulsory.
iii) Section–A has 7 questions of 2 marks each; Section–B has 6 questions of 3 marks each; and
Section–C has 2 case-based questions of 4 marks each.
iv) Internal choices have been provided in some questions. A student has to attempt only one of the
alternatives in such questions.

SECTION-A

1. a. “Carbon always forms covalent bond”. Comment on this statement. (2)

b. Why does the covalent compound have low boiling point and melting point?
2. In the following table, six elements A, B, C, D, E and F (here letters are not the usual symbols (2)
of the elements) of the Modern Periodic Table with atomic numbers 3 to 18 are given:
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

A E C

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

B D F

a. Which of these is a noble gas?

b. If B combines with E, what would be the formula of the compound formed?
c. Between A and B, whose atomic radius is more and why?
3. a. Where do the following functions occur? (2)
i. Production of an egg
ii. Fertilization
b. What happens to the lining of uterus:
i. Before release of a fertilized egg?
ii. If no fertilization occurs?
4. A parasitic organism is responsible to cause damage to the liver of cattle and human being. That (2)
organism can reproduce by opting both asexual and sexual method.
 a. Identify the organism and name the mode of asexual reproduction found in it.
b. Can that asexual mode of reproduction considered as true mode of reproduction? Justify your answer.

5. a. A study found that children with light-colored eyes are likely to have parents with light (2)
colored eyes. On this basis, whether the light eye colour trait is dominant or recessive?
Why or why not?
b. A boy of 15 years has attached ear lobes and weight of 65 kg. Which of these is an acquired
character and which is inherited? Give reason for your choice.
OR
a. A normal pea plant bearing colored flowers suddenly starts producing white flowers.
What could be the possible cause?
b. How do the two factors for a character, present in diploid cells, behave at the time of gamete
formation?
6. a. Identify and define the device given below. (2)

b. What would happen to the direction of rotation of coil in a motor if both current and magnetic field
were reversed simultaneously?
c. State the principle behind the working of this device.
OR
Observe the figure carefully and answer the following questions.

a. Name and state the rule used to find the direction of displacement of the rod, when current is passed
through it.
 b. Identify the direction of displacement of the rod PQ, when the key is switched on.

7. Study the given diagram carefully and answer the following questions. (2)

a. If A is 5000KJ amount of energy which is entering into the first trophic level, what will be the
energy available in secondary consumer?
b. State the law associated with the above concept to justify your answer.
OR
We know that a food chain contains different organisms at different trophic levels in a typical
Ecosystem. In the diagram of energy flow in an ecosystem given below, identify the Secondary
Consumers and explain why did you choose it? What is A? Give reason for your answer.

SECTION-B
8. Study the data of the following three categories A, B and C. (3)
CATEGORY NAME OF THE ELEMENT ATOMIC MASS
A Li 7
Na 23
K 39
B N 14
P 31
As 74
C B 10.8
Al 27
Ga 69.7
 a. From the given three categories A, B and C, pick the one which forms Dobereiner’s Triads.
b. Why did Mendeleev placed elements of category A, B and C in three different groups?
c. Is Newland’s law of Octave applicable to all the three categories? Give reason to justify your answer.
9.a. Define isomerism. (3)
b. Draw the structures of all possible isomers of fifth member of alkane homologous series.
OR
a. Define homologous series of organic compounds.
b. State any two characteristics of homologous series.
c. Write the name and electron dot structure of the fourth member of a homologous series
whose general formula is CnH2n+2.
10. A blue colour flower plant denoted by BB is cross bred with that of white colour flower plant (3)
denoted by bb.
a. State the colour of flower you would expect in their F1 generation plants.
b. What must be the percentage of white flower plants in F2 generation if flowers of F1 plants
are self-pollinated?
c. State the expected ratio of the genotypes BB and Bb in the F2 progeny.
d. Support your answer with the help of a suitable cross.
11. A household uses the following electric appliances: (3)
a. Refrigerator of rating 400 W for ten hours each day.
b. Two electric fans of rating 80 W each for twelve hours each day.
c. Six electric tubes of rating 18 W each for 6 hours each day.
Calculate the electricity bill of the household for the month of June if the cost per unit of electric
energy is ₹ 3.00.
12. i) If in Figure R1 = 10 ohms, R2 = 40 ohms, R3= 30 ohms, R4 = 20 ohms, R5 = 60 ohms and a (3)
12 volt battery is connected to the arrangement, calculate:
a. the total resistance
b. the total current flowing in the circuit.
ii) Write an expression for the heat produced in a conductor connected to a source of potential difference
‘V’ when a current ‘I’ flows through it for some time ‘t’.
OR
a. Write down the formula which relates electric charge, time & electric current.
b. Why should the resistance of a Voltmeter be very large?
c. A copper wire of resistivity 2.6 × 10-3 Ωm, has a cross sectional area of 30 × 10-4 cm2. Calculate

the length of this wire required to make a 10 Ω coil.

13. a. Plastic cups were used to serve tea in train in early days-these could be returned to the vendors, (3)
cleaned and reused. Later, Kulhads were used instead of plastic cups. Now, paper cups are used
for serving tea. What are the reasons for the shift from plastic to Kulhads and then finally to paper
cups?
b. Why do most of the food chains have only three to four trophic levels?
c. What is sewage? How is it different from Garbage?
SECTION-C
This section has 02 case-based questions (14 and 15). Each case is followed by 3 sub-questions
(a, b and c). Part a and b are compulsory. However, an internal choice has been provided in part c.
14. In rabbit, gray hair is dominant over white hair and black eyes are dominant over red eyes. (4)
A male pure-bred rabbit having gray hair and red eyes is crossed with a female pure-bred rabbit
having white hair and black eyes.
a. What will be the genotype and phenotype of the off springs obtained from the above cross. (1 Mark)
b. What are the phenotype of the rabbits that have the following genotype? (1 Mark)
i. Ggbb ii. ggBB
c. Write all possible genotypic expressions for (2 Marks)
i. gray hairs and white hairs in rabbits.
ii. Black eyes and red eyes in rabbit
OR
List out all possible gametes produced by a hybrid male rabbit having grey hair and black eyes.

15. Answer the questions that follow on the basis of your understanding of the following source (4)
based paragraph and the related studied concepts.
Michael Faraday was an experimental physicist. He introduces the concept of the magnetic line of
force to represent a magnetic field visually. According to his experiment, when bar magnet is
surrounded by little bits of iron filings, each a little magnet of its own. By tapping the surface, the
iron filings arrange themselves in a particular pattern. They respond to an unseen presence— what
Faraday called it “lines of force.” The following sketch shows the lines of force due to a bar
magnet on the accumulated action on little iron filings.
a. What does the degree of closeness of magnetic field lines near the poles signify? (1 Mark)
b. What happens if a bar magnet is cut into two pieces along its length? (1 Mark)
c. i. Draw a diagram indicating uniform magnetic field. (2 Marks)
ii. What is the direction of magnetic field lines outside a bar magnet?

OR

i. A current flows downwards in a wire that passes vertically through a table top. What will be the
direction of magnetic field lines when viewed from above the table?
ii. Two magnetic field lines never intersect each other. Give reason.