SAMPLE PAPER, TERM- 1

SESSION-2016-17

CLASS- VIII

SUBJECT – SOCIAL STUDIES

Time: 3 Hrs Max Marks:100

General Instructions:

Answer all questions.

Do not write anything on the question paper.

All answers must be correctly numbered.

Write your name, class, roll number on the map. Tie it in between the answer

sheets.

1. Give one word answers: (1x7=7)

a) The name given to the trade centres by the Britishers

b) People who are forced to work for someone without being paid

c) A place where arms are kept

d) Dark fertile soil and rich in humus found in praries are called

e) The Right to Education Act was named in this year

f) This makes an object a resource

g) The right to Free Education was considered this in State Policy in 1950

2. Answer the following in one sentence: (1x7=7)

a) What are shelter belts or wind breakers?

b) What do you mean by humus?

c) Who were called pastrolists?

d) Who led the revolt of 1857 in Kanpur?

e) What are fundamental rights?

f) How do we elect members of Rajya Sabha?

g) Who has the right and responsibility to review and investigate complaints in case of

violation of RTE?

3 . Give reasons: (1x8=8)

a) Why were so many acts and reforms introduced by the Britishers?

b) Why did the tribals perform shilfting cultivation?

c) Why did the sepoys refuse to use the Enfield rifles?

d) Why do we need to protect our resources from getting polluted or depleted?

e) Why is soil thin on hill slopes?

f) Why is galvanising done on steel or iron?

g) Why is an individual’s left hand index finger stained with ink while voting?

h) Why do we consider the river valley projects on lifelines of a country?

4. Define the following terms: (2x8=16)

a) Dikus

b) Dual administration

c) Doctrine of lapse

d) Gueriella war

e) Sustainable development

f) Land degradation

g) Secularism

h) Directive principles of state policy

3. Compare and contrast : (3x6=18)

a) Police administration and Military administration

b) Shifting cultivation and Settled cultivation

c) Political causes and Social, Religious causes of Revolt of 1857

d) Actual and Potential resources

e) Hydroelectric power and Wind energy

f) Conture farming and Mulching

4. Answer the following questions in details:

a) ‘Subsidiary Alliance’, a policy introduced by Lord Wellesley played a major role in British

expansion in India. Elucidate in light of its features. (3)

b) How did the changed forest laws affect the lives of the British? (3)

c) Discuss the effect of the revolt on the Indian as well as Britishers. (3)

d) Three R’s are very important in conservation of resources. Explain them and justify why

they are important? (3)

e) Describe advantages and disadvantages of solar energy? (3)

f) How can the minerals be conserved? (3)

g) What is the right to constitutional remedies? (3)

h) What were the two important tribes revolt against the Britishers? How did British troops

supress them? (3)

i) Discuss the main causes for the failure of revolt of 1857. (3)

j) Define minerals. What are the three different types of mining? (4)

k) What are the factors that affect the formation of soil? (4)

l) Describe the various aspects of Right to Education Act 2009? (4)

5. Mark the following on Indian Political Map. (1x5=5)

a) The area where Gonds tribe live.

b) The place from where Khan Bahadur Khan led the revolt.

c) One area where red soil is found.

d) The longest dam of India is found in this state.

e) Nuclear Power Plant at Tarapur.