CBSE Board Class 10 Social Science Sample Papers 2007

SST SAMPLE PAPER 
2007
CLASS 10
Questions 1 to 14 carry 2 marks.
Questions 15 to 21 carry 4 marks each.
Questions 22 to 25 carry 6 marks each.

SECTION - A 2 MARKS EACH

1.What do you mean by an economy?

2.Explain two policy initiatives of Globalization.

3.What is consumer awareness?

4.What are prices? Give two consequences of price rise.

5.What are known as resources? How does technology influence development of resources?

6.What do you mean by water resources? What is its importance?

7.How can we plan our water resources?

8.What is the economic importance of resources?

9.Describe the development of telecommunication in India.

10.Name the many groups of people who came to India and settled here from about 1500 B.C. to AD. 1800.

11.Give names of two newspapers which started publication in the 19th century and are being published even today.

12.Explain Domestic System and  Ryotwari System

13. Explain the role of UN Disaster administration Team (India) in managing the disaster.

14.Who were the moderates and what were their aims?

SECTION - B 4 MARKS EACH

15.Describe the principles of Panchsheel.

16.What institutional reforms were brought in Indian agriculture after independence? What is meant by landholding ceiling?

17.How is land the most important resource what is known as humus? What is its importance? What is the importance of climate in soil formation?

18.What is known as shifting agriculture? Where and how is it practiced in India? State two features of Indian Intensive Agricultural Programme.

19.Point out any four significant features of the Mughal Architecture in the reign of Akbar.

20.What were the demands of the Indian National Conference formed under Govind Ranade In 1887?

21.Study the map given below and answer the questions that follows
Name the two states having very high percentage of net sown area under irrigation.
Why do these States have largest area under irrigation? Give any one reason.

SECTION C 6 MARKS EACH

22.Discuss the importance of Legal Literacy. Describe any five Civil Rights.

23.What do you mean by corruption? How this practice has spread in India? Give some suggestions to remove corruption in the government services.

24.What do you mean by Communalism? What is the nature of Communalism steps should be taken to end the evil of Communalism? How caste system developed in India?

25.Explain the meaning of each of the following terms: Anglicists, Orientalists, Sati, Permanent Settlement,