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Sample Paper Term 2 Class 10 Social Science With Solutions Set G
SECTION – A
1. Analyse any two reasons for slow down of Non-Cooperation Movement in cities.
Answer : (i) The Indians could not boycott for a long time because, Khadi cloth was more expensive than mass produced mill cloth and poor people could not afford to buy it.
(ii) The Boycott of British institutions posed a problem as alternative Indian institutions had to be set up so that they could be used in place of British ones.
2. Describe four major problems faced by the Road transport in India.
Answer : (i) The road network is inadequate.
(ii) About half of the Roads are unmetalled.
(iii) This limits their usage during the Rainy season.
(iv) The roadways are highly congested in cities.
3. Describe the necessity of political parties in a democratic country?
Answer : (i) Without political parties, democracies cannot exist.
(ii) If we do not have political parties, in such a situation every candidate in elections will be independent.
(iii) No one will be able to make any promises to the people about any major policy changes.
(iv) The government may be formed, but its utility will remain uncertain.
4. State the role of Reserve Bank of India.
Answer : (i) In India, the Reserve Bank of India issues currency notes on behalf of the Central Government.
(ii) The RBI supervises the functioning of formal sources of loans.
(iii) The RBI monitors the banks in actually maintaining cash balance.
(iv) The RBI sees that the banks give loans not just to profit-making businesses and traders but also to small cultivators.
5. Read the data in the table given below and answer the questions that follow:
5.1 Compare the 2015-2016 and 2019-2020 data and give any one reason for the reduction of production of steel in 2019-2020.
Answer : High costs
5.2 Why is production and consumption of steel considered as an index of a country’s development?
Answer : The steel products are used as a raw material in different industries.
Section – B
6. Why is modern currency accepted as a medium of exchange without any use of its own? Find out the reason.
Answer : (i) Modern currency is authorised by the government of a country.
(ii) In India, the Reserve Bank of India issues all currency notes on behalf of the central government.
(iii) No other individual or organisation is allowed to issue currency.
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Imagine yourself to be XYZ, a member of a woman Self Help Group. Analyse the ways through which your group provides loan to the members.
Answer : (i) Self Help Groups pool their savings.
(ii) A typical SHG has 15–20 members, usually belonging to one neighbourhood, who meet and save regularly.
(iii) Saving per member varies from Rs. 25 to Rs. 100 or more, depending on the ability of the people to save.
7. Why did Gandhiji start Non-Cooperation Movement? Explain.
Answer : (i) Against Rowlatt Act
(ii) Jallianwala Bagh incidence
(iii) Khilafat Andolan
8. Describe the role of political parties in India.
Answer : (i) Parties contest elections.
(ii) Parties put forward different policies and programmes.
(iii) Parties form and run the government.
(iv) Parties that lose in the election play the role of opposition
(v) Parties shape public opinion.
(vi) Parties provide people access to government machinery and welfare schemes.
Section – C
9. Describe any five Outcomes of Democracy.
Answer : (i) Accountable, responsive and legitimate government.
(ii) Economic growth and development.
(iii) Reduction of inequality and poverty.
(iv) Accommodation of social diversity.
(v) Dignity and freedom of the citizens.
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Why do we feel that Democracy is a better form of government than any other form? Explain.
Answer : (i) Promotes equality among citizens.
(ii) Enhances the dignity of the individual.
(iii) Improves the quality of decision making.
(iv) Provides a method to resolve conflicts.
(v) Allows room to correct mistakes.
10. “Information and Communication technology has played a major role in spreading out production of services across countries.” Justify the statement with examples.
Answer : (i) Transportation technology has made much faster delivery of goods across long distances possible at lower costs.
(ii) There are even more remarkable developments in information and communication technology.
(iii) Telecommunication facilities are used to contact one another around the world, to access information instantly, and to communicate from remote areas information instantly and to communicate from remote areas.
(iv) Through the internet, one can obtain and share information on almost anything. It also allows sending e-mail and talking across the world at negligible costs.
(V) For example, a news magazine published for London readers is to be designed and printed in Delhi. The text of the magazine is sent through the internet to the Delhi office. The designers in the Delhi office get orders on how to design the magazine from the office in London using telecommunication facilities. The designing is done on a computer. After printing, the magazines are sent by air to London. Even the payment of money for designing and printing from a bank in London to a bank in Delhi is done instantly through the internet.
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Explain any five effects of globalization.
Answer : (i) Increased investments by MNCs.
(ii) It created new opportunities for companies.
(iii) Some large local companies like in India emerged as Multinational Companies.
(iv) Standards of living have been raised.
(iv) Several companies hit hard due to competition.
(vi) Several workers rendered jobless due to shut down of industries.
Section – D
11. Read the given text and answer the following questions.
Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in January 1915. As you know, he had come from South Africa where he had successfully fought he racist regime with a novel method of mass agitation, which he called satyagraha. The idea of satyagraha emphasised the power of truth and the need to search for truth. It suggested that if the cause was true, if the struggle was against injustice, then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor. Without seeking vengeance or being aggressive, a satyagrahi could win the battle through nonviolence. This could be done by appealing to the conscience of the oppressor. People – including the oppressors – had to be persuaded to see the truth, instead of being forced to accept truth through the use of violence. By this struggle, truth was bound to ultimately triumph. Mahatma Gandhi believed that this dharma of non-violence could unite all Indians. After arriving in India, Mahatma Gandhi successfully organised satyagraha movements in various places. In 1916 he travelled to Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the oppressive plantation system. Then in 1917, he organised a satyagraha to support the peasants of the Kheda district of Gujarat. Affected by crop failure and a plague epidemic, the peasants of Kheda could not pay the revenue, and were demanding that revenue collection be relaxed. In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi went to Ahmedabad to organise a satyagraha movement amongst cotton mill workers.
11.1 What was the idea of Satyagarha?
Answer : The idea of satyagraha emphasised the power of truth and the need to search for truth. It suggested that if the cause was true.
11.2 Examine the role of Mahatma Gandhi in Champaran.
Answer : In 1916 Mahatma Gandhi travelled to Champaran in Bihar to inspire the peasants to struggle against the oppressive plantation system.
11.3 “ Mahatma Gandhi started satyagarha movement on different places of Gujarat”. Why?
Answer : In 1917, he organised a satyagraha to support the peasants of the Kheda district of Gujarat. Affected by crop failure and a plague epidemic, the peasants of Kheda could not pay the revenue, and were demanding that revenue collection be relaxed. In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi went to Ahmedabad to organise a satyagraha movement amongst cotton mill workers.
12. Read the given text and answer the following questions.
Ever since humans appeared on the earth, they have used different means of communication. But, the pace of change has been rapid in modern times. Long distance communication is far easier without physical movement of the communicator or receiver. Personal communication and mass communication including television, radio, press, films, etc. are the major means of communication in the country. The Indian postal network is the largest in the world. It handles parcels as well as personal written communications. Cards and envelopes are considered first-class mail and are airlifted between stations covering both land and air. The second-class mail includes book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals. They are carried by surface mail, covering land and water transport. To facilitate quick delivery of mails in large towns and cities, six mail channels have been introduced recently. They are called Rajdhani Channel, Metro Channel, Green Channel, Business Channel, Bulk Mail Channel and Periodical Channel.
Q12.1 Which things are part of mass communication?
Answer : Mass communication including television, radio, press, films, etc.
Q12.2 Which things we can include in the second- class mail?
Answer : The second-class mail includes book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals.
Q.12.3. Examine the role of the Indian postal network.
Answer : The Indian postal network is the largest in the world. It handles parcels as well as personal written communications. Cards and envelopes are considered first-class mail and are airlifted between stations covering both land and air. The second-class mail includes book packets, registered newspapers and periodicals. They are carried by surface mail, covering land and water transport. To facilitate quick delivery of mails in large towns and cities, six mail channels have been introduced recently. They are called Rajdhani Channel, Metro Channel, Green Channel, Business Channel, Bulk Mail Channel and Periodical Channel.
Section – E
13. On the given outline Political Map of India, identify the place marked as A with the help of following information and write its correct name on the line marked near it.
13.1.(A) The place where session of Indian National Congress held in September 1920.
13.2. Noida software technology park.
13.3 Tarapur Nuclear Power Plant.
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Indira Gandhi Airport – Delhi
Answer : 13.1 KOLKATA (W. B.)
13.2. Noida (U.P.)
13.3. Tarapur (Maharashtra)
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DELHI
