CBSE-X PHASE-END- I SOCIAL SCIENCE

CBSE_X_SOCIAL SCIENCE_PHASE_END_I_EXAM_KEY
Time: 3 Hrs 80 Marks
General Instructions:
i. Question paper comprises Six Sections – A, B, C, D, E and F. There are 37
questions in the question paper. All questions are compulsory.
ii. Section A – From question 1 to 20 are MCQs of 1 mark each.
iii. Section B – Question no. 21 to 24 are Very Short Answer Type Questions, carrying
2 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 40 words.
iv. Section C - contains Q.25to Q.29 are Short Answer Type Questions, carrying 3
marks each.
Answer to each question should not exceed 60 words
v. Section D – Question no. 30 to 33 are long answer type questions, carrying 5 marks
each.
Answer to each question should not exceed 120 words.
vi. Section-E - Questions no from 34 to 36 are case based questions with three sub
questions and are of 4 marks each
vii. Section F – Question no. 37 is map based, carrying 5 marks with two parts, 37a
from History (2 marks) and 37b from Geography (3 marks).
viii. There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal choice has
been provided in few questions. Only one of the choices in such questions have to
be attempted.
ix. In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and question,
wherever necessary.

SECTION – A
MCQs (1X20=20)
1. C) Bohemia
2. A) I, II & III
3. D) National Sample Survey Organization
4. C) Uranium and Thorium
5. B) I and III
6. B) Statements i, ii and iii are appropriate.
7. A) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is correct
explantation of Assertion (A).
8. C) National People’s Party 2023
9. B) Proactive approach with ISO certification for Environmental Management
System (EMS)

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10. C) Both i and ii

11. D) Planting of tree of Liberty
12. B) Statement (i) is correct and (ii) is incorrect
13. D) ii, iii and iv
14. C) Tankas
15. B) It is true that if women are engaged in paid work, their dignity in the household
and society decreases.
16. A) She took part in the French revolution.
17. D) Access information instantly across countries
18. B) Bauxite
19. D) All of the above
20. C) Electronic
SECTION-B
VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (2X4=8)
21.
 Keeping into view the disadvantages and rising resistance against the multi-
purpose projects water harvesting system is considered a viable alternative both
socio-economically and environmentally.
 In ancient India also along with the sophisticated hydraulic structures, there
existed an extraordinary tradition of various water-harvesting systems.
 People adopted different techniques in different areas. In hilly regions, people
built diversion channels like the ‘guts’ or ‘kills’ for agriculture.
 Rooftop rainwater harvesting is commonly practiced to store drinking water wheal
in Rajasthan particularly.
 In the floodplains of Bengal, people developed inundation channels to irrigate
their fields. Khakis Jihads and Tanks are the forms of rainwater harvesting
practiced i Rajasthan.
22.
i. The printing press first came to goa in western India through Portuguese
missionaries in mid-16th century.
ii. Jesuit priests learnt Konkani and printed several texts and nearly 50 books
were printed in Konkani.
iii. Catholic priests printed the first Tamil book in 1579 at Cochin.
iv. The first Malayalam book was printed in 1713.
v. The Dutch Protestant missionaries had printed 32 Tamil texts.
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OR
Ans:
 Print was no longer used just by scholar officials. Merchants used print in their
everyday life, as they collected trade information.
 Reading increasingly became a leisure activity. The new readership preferred
fictional narratives, poetry, autobiographies, anthologies of literary masterpieces,
and romantic plays.
 Rich women began to read, and many women began publishing their poetry and
plays. Wives of scholar-officials published their works and courtesans wrote
about their lives.
23. The various reforms that a political party can take are as follows:
 A provision within a political party to tackle internal conflicts.
 The 1/3rd representation in the party should be given to women candidates.
 The parties should not promote candidates having criminal records.
 State funding during elections should be promoted so that candidates coming
from poor backgrounds stand an equal chance to win.
24. Reasons for putting trade barriers to foreign trade and investment by the Indian
government after Independence are:
i. To protect local producers and goods from foreign competition.
ii. Industries needed protection so that they could grow and develop in order to
be ready to compete with developed countries later on.
iii. It imposed restrictions on the import of certain goods.
Reasons to remove barriers were:
 To face competition and improve quality of products.
 To attract foreign investments.
 To place orders for production.
SECTION C
SHORT ANSWER BASED QUESTIONS (3X5=15)
25. A sentiment of Nationalism in the first half of the 19th century:
 Nationalist groups became increasingly intolerant, which leads to war.
 Major European Powers manipulated the nationalist aspirations to further their
own imperialist aims.
 Source of nationalist tension in Europe was the area called Balkans.
 Idea of romantic nationalism in the Balkan together with a disintegration of the
Ottoman Empire made this region very explosive.
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 One by one, European nationalities broke away from its control and declared
independence.
 Tire Balkan People based their claims for independence or political rights on
nationality to prove that they were once interdependent but were subjugated by
foreign Power.
 As the different, Slavic nationalities struggled to define their identity and
independence, the Balkan area became an area of intense conflict.
26. The democratic governments are better than other forms of governments because:
 Democratic governments have formal Constitution while it is not the case in other
form of governments.
 They hold regular elections while it is not the case in other form of governments.
 They have political parties whereas there is no such thing in other form of
governments.
 They guarantee rights to citizens while it is not the case in the other form of
governments.
 Such governments allow room to correct mistakes while it is not there in the
other form of government.
 Such government accommodates social diversities while no such thing in other
form of government.
OR
Ans: There is no denying the fact that democracy is accountable and responsive to
the needs and expectations of the citizens. Democracy produces an accountable
government in the following ways.
 A democratic government ensures that people are able to choose their leaders
and keep a check on them.
 In an accountable government, people have the right to elect the leaders to form
government and if possible they participate in the decision making process.
 Citizens also have the right to evaluate the decision-making process. Democracy
produces à responsive government in the following ways.
 Democracy produces a responsible government, which is responsible for
satisfying the needs and aspirations of people it.
 It promotes the formation of public opinion, needs and expectations of the
citizens.
 There are proper deliberations and negotiations before arriving at any decision.

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27.
 Raw material. Cheap and abundant availability of raw material. Industries which
use heavy and perishable raw material have to be located close to the source of
raw material
 Labour. Availability of cheap labour-both skilled and unskilled, is necessary for
keeping the cost of production low.
 Power. Cheap and continuous supply of power is extremely necessary for
continuity in the production process.
 Capital. It is necessary for developing infrastructure, for the entire manufacturing
process and for meeting manufacturing expenditure.
 Banking and insurance facilities, favourable government policies are other factors
which affect location of an industry.
28.
 The Earth has enough resources to meet the needs of all but not enough to
satisfy the greed of even one person.
 This statement is relevant to the discussion of development since both resources
and development go hand in hand.
 For the sustainability of development, the maintenance of resources is also
crucial.
 As the statement claims the Earth has enough resources” renewable and non-
renewable” to satisfy everyones needs; however, these need to be used with a view
to keeping the environment protected and clean so that a balance of production
and use is maintained and shortages are avoided.
29.
Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy:
 Power sharing helps to reduce the possibilities of conflicts between various ethnic
groups living in a society.
 It helps in ensuring political stability since a country can be run by all the
communities without giving preference to any majority community.
 It also reduces violence and linguistic problems. In India, there is diversity in
language but our constitution gives equal weight to all the languages.
 Power sharing is actually being called the spirit of democracy.
 It helps in bringing political economic social and cultural stability to the nation.

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SECTION-D
LONG ANSWER BASED QUESTIONS (5X4=20)
30. In India, coal is the most abundantly available fossil fuel. Coal is found in a
variety of forms:
Peat decaying plants in swamps produce peat.
 It has low carbon and high moisture contents.
 It has low heating capacity.
Lignite is a low-grade brown coal.
 It is soft with high moisture contents.
 The principal lignite reserves are in Neyveli and they are used for generation of
electricity.
Bituminous is the most popular coal in commercial use.
 Metallurgical coal is high-grade bituminous coal.
 It has special value for smelting iron in blast furnaces.
Anthracite is the highest quality hard coal.
 It contains more than 80% carbon content.
 It gives less smoke.
OR
Ans:
Conventional sources of energy Non-conventional sources of energy
i. Conventional sources of energy are the Non-conventional sources of energy refer
sources that are commonly in use to the sources that are identified a few
since a long time. decades ago.
ii. Conventional sources of energy are Non-conventional sources of energy are
limited and exhaustible. abundant and inexhaustible.
iii. They cause pollution. They cause little or no pollution.
iv. Fuels produced from conventional Fuels produced from non-conventional
sources are comparatively expensive. sources are comparatively cheaper.
i. Conventional sources do not produce Non-conventional sources produce green
green energy energy
ii. They are primarily used for industrial They are mainly used for Domestic
and commercial purpose purpose
Example: fossil fuels such as coal, Example: Wind energy, solar energy, etc.
natural gas, etc.

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31.
Ans: i. By the close of the eighteenth century, a number of newspapers and journals
appeared in print. The first newspaper to come out was the weekly Bengal
Gazette, brought out by Gangadhar Bhattacharya.
ii. Printed tracts and newspapers not only spread new ideas, but they also
shaped the nature of debate. A wider public could now participate in public
discussions and express their views.
iii. There were intense controversies between the social and religious reformers
and Hindu orthodoxy over matters like widow immolation, monotheism,
Brahmanical priesthood and idolatry. So that, these ideas and thoughts could
reach a wider audience, newspapers were printed in the spoken language of
ordinary people.
iv. Rammohan Roy published the ‘Sambad Kaumudi’ from 1821 and the Hindu
orthodoxy commissioned the ‘Samachar Chandrika’ to oppose his opinions.
Two Persian newspapers Jam-i-Jahan Nama and Shamsul Akhbar were also
published.
v. After the collapse of Muslim dynasties, Ulama feared that colonial rulers
would change the Muslim personal laws. To counter this they published
Persian and Urdu translations of Holy Scriptures and printed religious
newspapers and tracts.
vi. Newspapers and journals not only helped the publication of opinions but also
connected people and communities in different parts of India. Newspapers
conveyed news from one place to another creating Pan-India identity.
OR
Ans:
 Printing reduced the cost of books.
 The time and labour required to produce each of the book came down, multiple
copies could be produced with greater ease.
 Books flooded the market, reaching out to an ever-growing readership.
 Publishers started publishing popular ballad folk tales with beautiful pictures
and illustrations.
 Knowledge was transferred orally.
 Print created the possibility of the wide circulation of ideas and introduced a new
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 Even those who disagreed with established authorities could now print and
circulate their ideas. e.g., Martin Luther was a German monk, priest, professor
and Church Reformer. He challenged the Church to debate his ideas.
 This led to division within the Church and the beginning of the Protestant
Reformation.
 Print and popular religious literature stimulated many distinctive individual
interpretations of faith even among little-educated working people.
 In the 16th CE, Menocchio, a miller in Italy, reinterpreted the message of the
Bible and formulated a view of God and Creation that enraged the Roman
Catholic Church.
32. Consequences of environmental degradation do not respect national or state
boundaries and can be seen in other parts of the country or world. This can be
understood by following points
 Land degradation affects the agricultural productivity of land as well as food
security. Food requirement of that region will be completed by importing food
from other regions. It will create additional pressure on the land resources of
exporting regions.
 Addition of greenhouse gases in atmosphere is responsible for increase in
temperature. It affects every part of the world whether it is developed or
developing country.
 Addition of chlorofluoro carbons in atmosphere is responsible for ozone depletion
in Antarctic region. Although source region of CFC can be any part of the world, it
is a serious issue of concern for whole world.
 Pollution of water affected the availability of water in whole world.
 Pollution of air has created respiratory diseases in humans of all parts of the
world because harmful gases imbalanced the composition of atmosphere.
OR
Development of a country can generally be determined by: per capita income;
average literacy level; and health status of its people.
 Per Capita Income means average income generated by each person in a given
group of people. Its limitation is that it does not show the disparities among the
people of the group.

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 Amount of literacy achieved is also a measure of development. Literacy rate

measures the proportion of literate population in the 7 and above age group. The
more the people are educated, the more developed the group is.
 Health indicators are Infant Mortality Rate, Birth Rate, etc. Lower the amount of
Infant Mortality Rate, higher is the rate of people being healthy.
 Net Attendance Ratio is also the indicator of economic development of a nation. It
is the total number of children of age group 6-10 attending school as a percentage
of total number of children in the same age group,
 Life Expectancy at birth denotes average expected length of life of a person at the
time of birth. Higher the life expectancy at birth, higher is considered the
development of a nation.
33. Political parties are necessary for democracy due to the following reasons:
 They provide voters with alternative ways of governance and economic
management on which the voters can exercise choice.
 They provide candidates in elections who, if victorious, go to the legislature to
make laws.
 They provide the leaders who form the government to run the administration.
 They also form the opposition in the legislature to act as a check on the
government
 These parties provide a means for the general people to make their voices heard
in the legislature and government.
 They represent the people in the legislature and ensure that laws are passed to
reflect the will of the general people.
OR
Ans: The political parties play an important role in democracy as
 Parties contest elections: In most democracies, elections are fought mainly among
the candidates put up by political parties.
 Parties put forward different policies and programmes and the voters choose from
them.
 Parties play a decisive role in making laws for a country.
 Parties shape public opinions. They raise and highlight issues.
 Form and run governments.
 Role of opposition. Opposition role is important in democracy as it voices different
views and criticize government for its failures or wrong policies.

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 Parties provide people access to government machinery and welfare schemes

implemented by governments.
SECTION-E
CASE BASED QUESTIONS (4x3=12)
34.
34.1 Women collected and stored water by balancing many ‘matkas’ (earthen pots)
and travelling long distances to get water.
34.2. Water scarcity is caused due to the variations in seasonal and annual
precipitation, but water scarcity in most cases is caused by over- exploitation,
excessive use and unequal access to water among different social groups.
34.3 Yes, rainwater harvesting can help as agricultural fields were converted into rain
fed storage structures that allowed the water to stand and moisten the soil like
the ‘khadins’ in Jaisalmer and ‘Johads’ in other parts of Rajasthan. ‘Rooftop
rainwater harvesting’ was commonly practised to store drinking water,
particularly in Rajasthan.
35.
35.1. The concept of majoritarianism signifies that the majority community of a country
should be able to rule a country in whichever way it wants.
35.2. The Act passed in 1956 recognised Sinhala as the only official language in
Sri Lanka.
35.3 The relation between the Sinhala and Tamil communities became strained
because the Tamil community felt themselves alienated.
36.
36.1. He founded two underground societies, first, Young Italy in Marseilles and Young
Europe in Berne. The members of the society were drawn from Poland, France,
Italy and the German states.
36.2. Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian revolutionary who was born in Genoa in 1805.
He was a member of Carbonari's secret society. In 1831, at the age of 24, he was
exiled for attempting a revolution in Liguria.
36.3 Mazzini was a relentless opposer of monarchy and he had a vision of democratic
republic, which frightened the conservatives. Thus he describes him as 'the most
dangerous enemy of our social order'.

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SECTION-F
MAP SKILL BASED QUESTION (2+3=5)
37. (a) Two places A and B have been marked on the given outline map of India. 2
Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them
(i) The place where the session of Indian National Congress was held in December
1920.
(ii) The place where Mahatma Gandhi broke Salt Law.
37. (b) On the same outline map of India locate and label any THREE of the
following with suitable Symbols. 3
(i) Hirakud Dam
(ii) Kakrapara Atomic power Station
(iii) Thiruvananthapuram Software Technology park
(iv) Tuticorin Sea port

(b) Kakrapara

(b) i. Hirakud
(a) ii. Dandi

(a) i. Nagpur

(b) iv. Tuticorin

(b) iii. Thiruvananthpuram

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