CBSE Class 7 Social Science Sample Paper SET - 3

Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80

General Instructions

1. The question paper has 23 questions in all. All questions are compulsory
2. Marks are indicated against each question.
3. Questions from serial number 1-9 are VSA's of 1 mark each, Every VSA
should be answered in one sentence each.
4. Questions from serial number 10- 16 are 3 marks questions. Answer of
these questions should not exceed 60 words each.
5. Questions from serial number 17- 21 are 5 marks questions, Answer of
these questions should not exceed 120 words each.
6. Question number 22 is a map question of 3 marks from Geography and
question number 23 is a map question of 2 marks from History. After
completion, maps should be securely tied to the middle of the answer
script.
7. Attempt all parts of a question together.

I. Answer the following in about a sentence. [1x9=9]

1. What is Feudalism?
2. Who were the Samanthas?
3. What was the language of administration under the Delhi sultans?
4. Who was known as a bigot?
5. What is an ecosystem?
6. Define: rock cycle.
7. What do you understand by the term Dalit?
8. What is the key feature of democracy?
9. Define Civil Rights Movement.

II. Answer. the following in about 60 words each. [3x7=21]

10. How were the affairs of Jatis regulated?
11. How did the Rashtrakutas become powerful?
12. What is meant by the internal and external frontier of the sultanate?
13. What are the major components .of the environment?
14. Briefly explain about the three types of rocks?
15. Differentiate between Exogenic and Endogenic forces.
16. Draw and explain the composition of air.

III. Answer the following in about 80 words each. [5x5=25]

17. How do the historians divide the past into period? Did they face any problem in doing this? [5]
18. What were the activities associated with the Cho la temples? [5]
19. What were the impacts of the Mongol invasion on Delhi Sultanate? [5]
20.1. How were the debates with the religious scholars important in the formation of Akbar's ideas
on government? [3]
20.2. What are metamorphic rocks? [2]
21. 1 Give an account of growing up in Samoa in the 1920's. [2]
21.2 Which day is celebrated as International Womens Day? List the methods through which they
can fight discrimination [3]

IV. On the given outline map of World, locate and label the following: [1x5]
22.1 Atlantic Ocean
22.2 Caspean Sea
23.3 Oyashio Cold Current.
24.4 Gulf Stream Warm
24.5. Current Australia.