TERM EXAMINATION -1

:X SCIENCE Time Allowed: 3 hrs

CLASS

Max. Marks: 80

General Instructions:

paper consists of 39 questions in 3 sections. SectionA

Biology,
()This question is

Section B is Chemistry and Section C is Physics.

(i) Allquestions are compulsory. However, an internal choice is provided

insome questions. A student is expected to attempt only one of these
questions.
SECTION A
oblongata, which of the following| 1
If a person suffers damage to the medulla

would be most affected?

a) Thought process and decision making

b) Balanceand coordination

Heart rate andbreathing

d) Memory and learning

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Look at the figure below and identify the structure labelled incorrectly:

Mitochondrion

(á) A NeuromuscularJunction

B Axon
(b)
Muscle fibre
(c)

(d) D Dendrite

pig with black fur is crossed witha 1

A homozygous dominantguinea
The F1 generation is crossed with
homozygous guinea pig with white fur.

expected to show a white fur

itself. What percentage of F2 generation is

Coat?
25% b)50 % c) 75 % d) 100 %
a

(Bb f- eaivntM
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 The person with diabetes mellitus is receiving treatment with insulin 1

|injections;the graph shows howthis person's blood glucose concentration

changed during part of one day. At what point was the insulin injection

given?
blood glucose.
COncentration normal, concentrabon

larbitrary

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time hours

a) B b) A c) D d) C

Choose the option that gives correct match of column A and column B. 1

Column B
ColumnA
A- cuScuta Uses finger like extension for
food intake
B- paramecium Absorbs the digested food
C- Amoeba iji Parasitic nutrition
D-Bread mould Ciliaare involved in ingestion
of food
a) A-iB–iv C -ii D - b) A – ii B- ivC- D -i
iji
ii
c) A- B – iv C-iD-
ii
d)A -iB- C -iiD - iv
ii
ii

9:3:3:1 ratio is due to

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a) Segregation
b) Crossing over
c) Independent assortment d) Recessiveness
A student sets up an experiment to study the human respiratory system.
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|Inthe experiment, the student places candle and a living cockroach in the
flask A, while a candle and a dead cockroach in flask B. The burning of
candle needs oxygen.
-Rubber cork Rubber cork

Wre Wre
Conical flask
Conical flask

Living Candle Candle

cockroach Dead
COckroach

After 10 minutes, the student observes that the candle inflask A

extinguishes faster while candle in flask B keeps burning for a longer time.
What can be evaluated from this experiment?
a) Water vapours produced by living beings prevent burning of candle.
) Living beings consume oxygen during respiration.

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 c)Burning of candle decreases the life span of cockroach.
d) Candle produces high amount of carbon dioxide.

The following two questions consist of two statemnents -Assertion

(A) and Reason (R). Answer these
questionsby selecting the
appropriateoption given below:
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the
correct explanation of A.
b)Both Aand R are true, and R is not the correct explanation of A.
c) A is true but R is false.
d) A is false but R is true

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8Assertion (A): Normal urine humans is hypertonic compared to blood

of
flowing through veins.
Reason(R) Capillaries bring in impure blood to kidneys.
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Assertion (A) : Pants lack excretory organs.
Reason (R) Plants usually absorb essentialnutrients.

tO Given belOw is a diagram of a certain category of blood vesseS

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a) Name the kind of blood vessels shown in the figure.

b) Name the structure denotes as A. Write its important role.

c) What kind of blood flows through these blood vessels normally?

Name
the blood vessel which carries blood fom the heart tothe Iungs.dLL
humans. As an 2
t1l a) As first line of defence, stress hormones are released in

equivalent, which hormone is most likely tobe released as first line of

defence in plants?

b) There have been reports of plant hormones being found in animal

bodies even when they are not synthesised by the animnal. What can

be the most common pathway of entry of such hormones in animals?

OR
Answer the following:

a) Name the endocrine gland associated with brain?

b) Which gland secretes digestive enzymes as well as hormones?

c) Name the endocrine gland associated with kidneys?

d) Which endocrine gland is present in males but not in females?

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(12The picture belowis the chromosome pair present in the cell of a person

W
a)ldentify the sex of a person. Give reason for your answer.
b) State the number of chromosomes present in a male or female gamete.
13|Study the given data and answer the questions following the data: 3
Parental plants cross F1 generation F2 offsprings of self
fertilised and seed offsprings pollination of F 1
collected

Male parents always 330 seeds sown and Out of 44 seeds,33

bare red flowers. 330
observed. all seeds gave plants
Female parent had with red flowers and
gave red flowers.
white flowers 11 seeds gave
plants with white
flowers.
a)What is the term of this type of cross?
b) What does the data of the
column marked F1 indicate?
Expressthe genotype of the(i)parents (i)F
c)
progeny (iii)F 2 progeny
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t4 State reason for the
following: 3
a)In human heart the walls of the ventricles are thicker
than the auricles.
b) During the breathing cycle even after
forceful exhalation the exchange
of gases continues.
c) Ingreen plants during the day carbon dioxide is generated in respiration
but is not released out.
15 |Ravi suffering from severe stomach pain
is
and vomiting. He consulted a 5
doctor who
advised him to gofor an ultrasound
(R receiving the report, doctor confirmed that Ravi
of abdominal area. After
has multiple stones in the
gall bladder so he should go for the
removal of gall bladder through a
surgery. Ravi is reluctant to go for gall
bladder removal surgery as he
thinks that his health would be
adversely affected.

a)State the importance of gall bladder in the

digestive system.
b) The image given below shows
digestive glandsassociated with
RR alimentary canal.
ldentify the part marked a P. Mention the
importanceof P in food digestion?
c) If person is suffering from malfunctioning of Pancreas,
a

what will be its

impacton food digestion?
OR
State the role of small intestine in the digestive
system.(Two points)

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 16 What is 'hydrotropism'?
Describe an experiment to
hydrotropism'. demonstrate 4
OR
Given below are the figures showing
some kinds of tropic movements in
plants. Study the same and
answer the following questions:

a) Which one of these figures is correct? Give reason in supportof your

answer.
b) Name the kind of movements shown by the root system and the shoot
system. Define each.
c) What are the two stimuli which affect root system and shootsystem?
Name them.
d) Which of the following stimuli affect the growth of root strongly?

1. Gravity 2. Water
e) Give an example of chemotropism in an angiosperm plant.
SECTION-B
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17 The colour of copper crystals changes from blue to

a) red
Test tube holder
Boling tube
b)Colourless Wate droplets
c) White Coppersulphate cystal

d) green Bumer

18On dilution pH of a solution

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a) increases b) Decreases
c) Remains unaffected h None of these

19 Which of the following statementsis true for an amphotericoxide?

a) It reacts with acid as well as base to form salt and hydrogen gas.
b) It reacts only with base and does not form water.
c) lt reacts only with acid and does not form water.

d) lt reacts with both acid as well as base to form salt and water

20 Which one
the following statementsis true about the position
of of metals

in the activity metals?

series of
a) Zinc is below magnesium but above aluminium g

) Magnesium is below calcium but above aluminium

c) Copper is below hydrogen but above lead

d) Iron is below lead and zinc

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21 Consider the folowing table.

pH value
SOLUTION
2
5
11
C
Increasing order hydrogen ion concentration is
C,A,B

of
a)A,B,C b) B,C,A C,BA d)

are correct?
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22 statementsabout the aiven reaction

Which of the following

MnO2 + 4HCI MnClz +2H20 +CIl2

(0) HCI is oxidized to Cl2

(i) MnO2 is reduced to MnCl2

(ii) MnCl2 acts asan oxidizing agent

(iv) HClacts asan oxidizing agent
a)(i), (i)and b)(), (ii) and (ii)
e (iv)

and (ii) only

(0) d) (ii) and (iv) only
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HCI, HNO3.and a mixture concentrated HCI

23|2 ml each of
of concentrated
tubes
and concentrated HNO3 in the ratio of 3:1 were taken in test
labelled as A, B and C. A small piece of metal
was put in each test tube.
No change occurred in test tubes A and B but the metal got dissolved
in

test tube C respectively. The metal could be

a) Pt and Cu 6) Auand Pt
c) Al and Au d) Cu and Au
The following question consists of two statements -Assertion (A)
and Reason (R). Answer these questions by selecting the
appropriateoption given below:
a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.

b) Both A and R are true, and R is not the correct explanation of A.

c) A is true but R is false.
d)A is false but R is true

24| ASSERTION(A): When Zn rod is added to an aqueous solution of 1

A
FeSO4, no change is observed.,
REASON(R) : Zn is more reactive than iron
a) Both A and R are correct and R is a correct explanation of the A.
b) Both Aand R are correct but R is not a correct explanation of the A.
Fe/
c)/A is correct but R is incorrect. V
P
Ais incorrect but R is correct

An alkali metal A gives a compound B (molecular mass =40) on reacting 2

with water. The compound B gives a soluble compound C on treatment
with aluminium oxide. ldentify A, B and C and give the reaction involved.

26Chlorine gas was prepared using electrolysis of brine solution. Write the
chemical equation to represent the change.ldentify the other products
formed in the process and give one application of each.

zMy0.+Nal
271Give reason forthefollowing. 3
) Carbonate,sulphideore are usually converted into oxides during une
extraction process.

b)Aluminium is a highly reactive metal, yet it is used to make utensils tor

cooking.
E) Platinum is used to make jewellery.
OR
Pratyush took sulphurpowder on a spatula and heated it. He collected the
gas evolved by inverting a test tube over it, as shown in the figure below.

Test tube

Spatula containing

sulphur powder

Burner

Collection of gas

a) What will be the action

of gas on
dry litmus paper?
i) i) moist litmus paper?
b) Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction taking place.

23 Generally, the basic oxides whereas non-metals form acidic|4

matats fora
oxides.) Only a few metals form hydrides with hydrogen and these
hydrides.
hydrides are unstable while the non- metals form stable
Metal atom can donate electrons easily and hence easily hence they act
can accept electrons readily,
as reducing agents and the non-metals
Thermal is the ability of
therefore they act as oxidisingagent. conductivity
an element to allow heat to pass through it.

ELEMENT SYMBOL THERMAL

CONDUCTIVITY(WI
cm-K)
lead L Pb 0.34

copper/ Cu 4.01
aluminium/ A 2.37
iron Fe 0.802
selenium Se 0.0204
Name a metal which good conductor
a of heat. Cu
L Which
metal?
reducing
is

agent can be used in the extraction of highly reactive

i. An elementforms an oxide AQawhicth A

is acidic in nature. ldentify

as a metal non-metal.
or

Name the metal which is

A setenin ('se)
iv. poor conductor of heat
seleninese)
29 Metals as we know,are very useful in all fields, industries in particular. 5
Non-metals areno less in any way. Oxygen present in air is essential for
breathing as well as for combustion. Non-metalsform a large number of
 compounds which are extremely useful, e.g., ammonia, nitric acid,

Sulphuric acid, etc. Non-metalsare found to exist in three states of matter.

Only be hard however, they have low

solid non-metals are expected to
densityand are brittle. They usually have low melting and boiling points
and are poor conductors of electricity.
is a non-metal but is lustrous

i. ldentify the king of chemicals.

ii, What is the nature of metal oxide?Will it react with acid.

iv. How baking powder make cakes and pastries soft and fluffy?

V. How silver ornaments blackened when exposed to atmosphere?

OR
In what forms are metals found in nature? With the help of examples,

explain how metals react with oxygen, water and dilute acids. Also, write
chemical equations for the reactions.

SECTION-C
30The danger signals installed at the top of tall buildings are red 1
in colour.
These can be easily seen from a distance because among all other
colours, the red light

a)is scattered the most by smoke or fog

b) is scattered the least by smoke or fog
c)is absorbed the most by smoke or fog
d)moves fastest in air
31 |Figure, shows a ray of light as travels from medium A to medium B.
it
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Refractive index of the medium relative to medium A is

a)

5"
43°, Miiun B
60°
30 elium A

d) v2
The following question consists of two statements – Assertion (A)
and Reason (R).Answer these questions by selecting the

|appropriate option given below:

a) Both A and Rare true, and R is the correct explanation of A.

b), Both A and R are true, and R is not the correct explanation of A.

)A is true but R is false.

d) A is false but R is true.

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32Assertion (A):When light from sunisfoCUSsed
on a sheet of paper using
a convex lens, the
paper begins to burn producing smoke.
It may even catch fire after a while.
Reason (R) :Convexlens is a diverging lens.
The image below shows the refraction of light in three transparent 2
rectangular blocks, X, Y and Z, made of dfferent materials
when they are
placed in air. The angle
of incidence is different in each case but the angle
of refraction is the same
in all three blocks. i3> iz > is Compare the speed
of light in the three blocks. Justify your
answer.

Astudent has difficulty in reading the blackboard while sitting in the last 2
NOWbut he can read his textbook. Name the defect of vision the student is
Suffering from.List two reasons due to which this defect arises. Write the
nature of the lens required to correct this
defect.

OR
a) Mention the role of crystalline lens in the
human eye.
b)How does the focal length of the eye lens change
when we shift looking
from a nearby object to a distant object?
|Whatis a rain bow? Draw a labelled diagram and explain its formation.
a) Define power of a lens. State and define the unit 3
of power.
b) A concave lens of focal length 50cm and a convex lens
of focal length
40cm are placed in contact with each other. What is the power of the
combination?
c) Calculate the focal length of the lens combination?
The refractive index of a medium 'x with respect to medium 'y' is and the 3
refractive index of

a) What is the
medium
refractive
'y' with respect to medium
medium 'zwith respect to 'x?
index of
'z' is ;
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b) If the speed of light in medium 'x is 3 x 10m/s. Calculate the speed of

light in medium 'y'?

The following questionsare Source-based /Case based questions. 4

Read the case carefully and answer the questions that follow.
A ray of light travelling from a rarer medium to a denser medium slows
down and bends towards the normal. When it travels from denser medium
to a rarer medium, it speeds up and bends away from the normal.
Consideran analogy to assist in our understanding of these two important
principles. Suppose that a fast car is travelling across the road towards a
thick mud at an angle, the mud slows down one side of the car, and the
path of the car bends. The more it is slowed, the more it bends. Upon
exiting the thick mud on the opposite side, the car speeds up and
achieves its original speed. In effect, this analogy would be representative
 of light wave crossing two boundaries, At
mud boundary), the light ray (or the the first boundary (the
thick road to
at the
car) would be slowing down, and
second boundary (the mud to road
boundary), the light ray (orthe
car) would be speeding up. We can apply
our two important principles
listed above and predict the direction of
bending and the path of the car
as it travels through the thick mud. As
indicated in the diagram, upon
entering the mud, the car slows down
and the path of the car bends
towards the normal (perpendicular line drawn to
NA the surface). Upon
exiting the mud, the car speeds up and
the path of the car bends away
from the normal. The path of the car is
closer to the normal in the slower
medium and farther from the normal in the
faster medium. This analogy
can be extended to the path of a light ray
as it passes from air into and
out of a rectangular block of glass.
Eost cor

Road
fe

slowedY
down

)
) Based on
glass
A
slab.
the above passage explain the refraction of light through the

student studies that speed of light in air is 300000 km/s whereas

that
of speed in a glasSs slab is about 197000 ka/s. What
causes the
difference in speed of light in media?
these two
c) The speed of light in air is 3x 10m/s, whereas that of the speed of
lightin water is 2.26 x
108 m/s. What is the refractive index of water
with respect to air?
OR
Find the refractive index of glass
with respect to water where refractive
index of glass with respect to air is 3/2 and
that of water with respect to
air is 4/3.

39a) One half of a convex lens of focal 10 cm is covered with a black

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paper. Can such a lens produce image of a complete object placed
an
at a distance of 30cm from the
lens? Draw a ray diagram to justify?
b) An object 4 cm high is placed at a distance of 27 cm in front of a convex lens of
focal length of 18 cm. Find the position ,nature and size of theimage formed.
OR
a) person needs a
lens of power + 2.5 D for correction of his
L2-=
A

What kind of defect in vision is he suffering from and what vision.

are the
causes of this defect.
b)Draw a figure showing the defected eye and the
eye after correction.
c) What is meant by advanced sunrise
and delayed sunset?Draw a
labelled diagram to explain these phenomena.

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