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PM Yashasvi Scholarship 9th Class Social Studies Model Paper 1 | Yashasvi Important Questions

 

1. Which of these have some utility?
(a) Water
(b) electricity
(c) Vegetables
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

2. Which of these have economic value?
(a) Landscape
(b) Home remedies
(c) Metals
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Metals

3. Resources are distributed unequally over the earth because of
(a) the different natural conditions
(b) level of development
(c) technological levels
(d) all of these
Answer: (a) the different natural conditions

4. Resources drawn from nature and used without much modification are called
(a) human made resources
(b) natural resources
(c) cultural resources
(d) none of these
Answer: (b) natural resources

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5. The basis of classification of resources are
(a) level of development and use
(b) origin
(c) stock and distribution
(d) all of these
Answer: (d) all of these

6. The resources whose quantities are known, named as
(a) potential resources
(b) actual resources
(c) stock
(d) all of these
Answer: (b) actual resources

7. Give an example of biotic resources.
(a) rocks
(b) minerals
(c) soils
(d) animals
Answer: (d) animals

8. Coal is an example of
(a) renewable resources
(b) non-renewable resources
(c) human resources
(d) potential resources
Answer: (b) non-renewable resources

9. Technology is an example of
(a) natural resources
(b) human made resources
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) none of these
Answer: (b) human made resources

10. Resources used carefully and giving them time to get renewed is called
(a) resource depletion
(b) resource conservation
(c) resource pollution
(d) none of these
Answer: (b) resource conservation

11. Balancing the needs to use resources and also conserve them for future generation is called
(a) development
(b) devaluation
(c) sustainable development
(d) all of these
Answer: (c) sustainable development

12. In which of the following continents is Tanzania situated?
(a) Europe
(b) Asia
(c) Africa
(d) South America
Answer: (c) Africa

13. Which of the following is the most important natural resource ?
(a) Land
(b) Water
(c) Air
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

14. The uneven distribution of population in the world is due to the varied characteristics of
(a) land and climate
(b) climate
(c) vegetation
(d) settlements
Answer: (a) land and climate

15. The example of common property resource is
(a) community land
(b) individual building
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) none of these
Answer: (a) community land

16. ______is the use of land for different purposes like agriculture, forestry, mining, construction of buildings, houses, industries and road.
(a) Land degradation
(b) Land use
(c) Landfilling
(d) Land digging
Answer: (b) Land use

17. Which of the following determine the use of land?
(a) Soil and topography
(b) Climate and vegetation
(c) Availability of water
Answer: (d) All of these

18. Australia uses its largest portion of its area for
(a) pastures
(b) crop land
(c) forest
(d) other uses
Answer: (a) pastures

19. The lowerjnost layer of the soil is:
(a) Weathered rock
(b) Parent rock
(c) Sub soil
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Parent rock

20. Which of the following is used of soil conservation?
(a) Mulching
(b) Shelter belts
(c) Contour ploughing
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

21. Which is not an example of ground water?
(a) Water flowing in rivers
(b) Water through wells
(c) Water through hand pumps
(d) Water through submersible pumps
Answer: (a) Water flowing in rivers

22. Which of the following is a famous bird sanctuary?
(a) Kaziranga National Park
(b) Tiger Park at Dudhwa
(c) Gir forest
(d) Bharatpur Sanctuary
Answer: (d) Bharatpur Sanctuary

23. Why is it necessary to increase the area under forests?
(a) To maintain ecological balance
(b) Forest absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
(c) Forest help in raising the level of precipitation
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

24. Large scale destruction of forests cover and arable land has occured due to the following:
(a) Growing population
(b) Ever growing demand of the population
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)

25. Why has quarrying become a major environmental concern?
(a) Because minerals are pollutants
(b) Due to dust raised from the quarrying activities
(c) Because it is done by displacing people
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Due to dust raised from the quarrying activities

26. The process of taking out minerals from rocks buried under the surface of the earth is named as
(a) mining
(b) pumping
(c) extracting
(d) none of these
Answer: (a) mining

27. Give an example of shafts.
(a) Surface mining
(b) Deep bores
(c) Qff-shore drilling
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Deep bores

28. What is the process in which minerals lying near the surface are dug?
(a) Drilling
(b) Off-shore drilling
(c) Quarrying
(d) Extraction
Answer: (c) Quarrying

29. Name the process in which deep wells are bored to take out petroleum and natural gas.
(a) Quarrying
(b) Drilling
(c) Shaft mining
(d) Open cast mining
Answer: (d) Open cast mining

30. Gold is an example of minerals.
(a) ferrous
(b) non-ferrous
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) none of these
Answer: (b) non-ferrous

31. Which continent is the largest producer of iron?
(a) Asia
(b) Europe
(c) North America
(d) Australia
Answer: (b) Europe

32. Which one of the following countries in Europe has the largest deposits of iron?
(a) Portugal
(b) Russia
(c) Germany
(d) Hungary
Answer: (b) Russia

33. Which is one of the deepest gold mine of the world?
(a) Kolar
(b) Jharia
(c) Raniganj
(d) Bikaner
Answer: (a) Kolar

34. From which mineral is silicon obtained?
(a) Coal
(b) Bauxite
(c) Thorium
(d) Quartz
Answer: (d) Quartz

35. Suggest ways to conserve minerals.
(a) Reducing waste in the process of mining
(b) Recycling of minerals
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)

36. Which one of the followings is not the way of saving energy at home?
(a) Switching off lights when not in use
(b) Keeping gas off when not in use
(c) Cooking food in an open pan on low flame
(d) Switching on lights during daytime
Answer: (c) Cooking food in an open pan on low flame

37. Petrbleum is referred to as ‘black gold’ because
(a) it’is black in colour
(b) it is yellow in colour
(c) it is valuable
(d) it is used in making jewellery
Answer: (c) it is valuable

38. Where do we find natural gas resources in India?
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Bihar
(c) Mumbai High
(d) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer: (c) Mumbai High

39. Mineral fuel is found in:
(a) Sedimentary rocks
(b) Metamorphic rocks
(c) Igneous rocks
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

40. Which of the following are non-conventional resources?
(a) Wind energy
(b) Solar energy
(c) Tidal energy
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

41. Energy obtained from the earth is known as:
(a) Nuclear energy
(b) Bio gas
(c) Geothermal
(d) Thermal
Answer: (c) Geothermal

42. Which Of the following are primary activities?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Mining
(c) Fishing
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

43. What is cultivation of grapes called’?
(a) Sericulture
(b) Viticulture
(c) Floriculture
(d) Horiculture
Answer: (b) Viticulture

44. The important inputs like seeds, fertilisers, machinery etc form a system called as?
(a) Barter system
(b) Water system
(c) Farm system
(d) All of these
Answer: (c) Farm system

45. Type of farming to meet family needs is known as:
(a) Subsistense
(b) Mixed
(c) Organic
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) Subsistense

46. Which of these is not commercial farming?
(a) Commercial Grain
(b) Mixed
(c) Organic
(d) Plantation
Answer: (c) Organic

47. …………….. is also knowh as a paddy
(a) Wheat
(b) Jowar
(c) Rice
(d) Bajra
Answer: (c) Rice

48. Which of the following crops are raised in commercial grain farming?
(a) Wheat
(b) Maize
(c) Both of these
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Both of these

49. Rubber plantation is famous in:
(a) Sri Lanka
(b) Brazil
(c) Malaysia
(d) USA
Answer: (c) Malaysia

50. Which of the following are coarse grains?
(a) Jowar
(b) Bajra
(c) Ragi
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

51. Which of the following country is a leading producer of rice?
(a) China
(b) Pakistan
(c) Malaysia
(d) Egypt
Answer: (a) China

52. Which type of soil is good for growing wheat?
(a) Desert
(b) Loamy
(c) Sandy
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Loamy

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53. Which of these are Millets?
(a) Jowar
(b) Ragi
(c) Both of these
(d) Maize
Answer: (c) Both of these

54. Which fibre requires frost free days to grow?
(a) Cotton
(b) Jute
(c) Nylon
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) Cotton

55. Which of the following countries usually practice Commercial agriculture?
(a) U.S.A
(b) Bangladesh
(c) India
(d) Bhutan
Answer: (a) U.S.A

56. Which of the following is a secondary activity?
(a) Coal mining industry
(b) Tourism industry
(c) Fishing
(d) Agriculture
Answer: (b) Tourism industry

57. Change of raw materials into products of more value to people is called
(a) manufacturing
(b) resources
(c) population
(d) none of these
Answer: (a) manufacturing

58. Which is not the agro-based industry?
(a) Oil
(b) Textile
(c) Sugar
(d) Food Processing
Answer: (a) Oil

59. Marine-based industries are based on
(a) minerals
(b) forest products
(c) agricultural products
(d) oceanic products
Answer: (d) oceanic products

60. Fish is a product of the
(a) mineral-based industries
(b) agro-based industries
(c) marine-based industries
(d) forest-based industries
Answer: (c) marine-based industries

61. Basket weaving falls in the category of
(a) small-scale industry
(b) cottage industry
(c) large-scale industry
(d) none of these
Answer: (b) cottage industry

62. Which of the following is a private sector industry?
(a) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(b) Tata Iron and Steel Industry
(c) Steel Authority of India
(d) National Thermal Power Corporation
Answer: (b) Tata Iron and Steel Industry

63. Why are state owned industries called public sector industries?
(a) Because they are established, run and maintained by private people.
(b) Because they are established, run and maintained by the government
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer: (b) Because they are established, run and maintained by the government

64. Which factors affect the location of industry ?
(a) Land
(b) Labour
(c) Capital
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

65. Industrialisation often leads to:
(a) Poverty
(b) Population
(c) Development
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Development

66. What does an industrial system consists of?
(a) Inputs
(b) Processes
(c) Output
(d) All of these
Answer: (d) All of these

67. Majot industrial regions are located near:
(a) Deserts
(b) Sea Ports
(c) Glaciers
(d) Mountains
Answer: (b) Sea Ports

68. Which metal is often called the backbone of modern industry?
(a) Steel
(b) Gold
(c) Silver
(d) Aluminium
Answer: (a) Steel

69. The earlier name of Jamshedpur was:
(a) Sakshi
(b) Sakchi
(c) Subarnarekha
(d) Kharkai
Answer: (b) Sakchi

70. Which among the following is the largest lake?
(a) Huran
(b) Superior
(c) Ontario
(d) Michigan
Answer: (b) Superior

71. Which is not the quality of clothes?
(a) Muslin
(b) Chintzes
(c) Calicos
(d) Osaka
Answer: (d) Osaka

72. ITI is the full form of –
(a) Indian Training Institute
(b) Institute of Technology of India
(c) Indian Telephone Industry
(d) Industrial Technology Institute
Answer: (c) Indian Telephone Industry

73. When was Human Resource Development Ministry formed in India at central level of Government?
(a) In 1990
(b) In 1985
(c) In 2004
(d) In 2009
Answer: (b) In 1985

74. More than 90% of World’s population lives in about of land surface?
(a) 20%
(b) 30%
(c) 50%
(d) 35%
Answer: (b) 30%

75. The average density of world’s population is
(a) 10 persons per square kilometre
(b) 80 persons per square kilometre
(c) 20 persons per square kilometre
(d) 51 persons per square kilometre
Answer: (d) 51 persons per square kilometre

76. The highest density of the population in the world is in
(a) Europe
(b) South America
(c) South central Asia
(d) none of these
Answer: (c) South central Asia

77. Which of the following is not the region where very few people live?
(a) High altitudes areas
(b) Plains
(c) High mountains
(d) Equatorial forest area
Answer: (b) Plains

78. The population of the world is
(a) 77 billions
(b) 7.0 billions
(c) 0.77 billions
(d) 0.077 billions
Answer: (b) 7.0 billions

79. Movement of people in. and out of an area is called
(a) migration
(b) death rate
(c) birth rate
(d) growth rate
Answer: (a) migration

80. How have USA and Australia gained in respect of population growth?
(a) By immigration
(b) By tourism
(c) By both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer: (a) By immigration

81. Which of the following countries has slow growth rate of population?
(a) India
(b) Pakistan
(c) United Kingdom
(d) Brazil
Answer: (c) United Kingdom

82. Which country has high population growth rate?
(a) Pakistan
(b) Kenya
(c) India
(d) China
Answer: (b) Kenya

83. Human resources differ from one another in respect of
(a) educational level
(b) age
(c) sex
(d) all of these
Answer: (d) all of these

84. Who was the last Viceroy of India?
(a) Lord Canning
(b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) dtipon
(d) Lord Wellesley
Answer: (b) Lord Mountbatten

85. Medieval period was
(a) the old period of history
(b) the period associated with the growth of all the forces of modernity
(c) none of the above
Answer: (c) none of the above

86. The British thought surveys were important for
(a) writing history
(b) effective judgement
(c) effective administration
(d) none of these
Answer: (c) effective administration

87. The British preserve official documents because
(a) the preserved documents reveal the progress made by country in the past
(b) one can study the notes and reports which were prepared in the past
(c) their copies may be made and used in modern times
(d) all of the above
Answer: (d) all of the above

88. Which one of the sources do historians use in writing about the last 250 years of Indian history?
(а) Official records of the French administration
(b) Official records of the British administration
(c) Official records of the Church administration
(d) None of the above
Answer: (b) Official records of the British administration

89. Which of the following is NOT the period of division of Indian History by James Mill?
(a) Hindu
(b) Muslim
(c) Christians
(d) Sikhs
Answer: (d) Sikhs

90. Which is NOT the source of describing history.?
(a) Diaries of people
(b) Conversation between two people
(c) Accounts of pilgrims and travellers
(d) Autobiographies of important personalities
Answer: (b) Conversation between two people

91. The National Archives of* India came up in the
(a) 1910s
(b) 1920s
(c) 1930s
(d) 1940s
Answer: (b) 1920s

92, Which of the following was NOT the Presidency ?
(a) Bengal
(b) Madras
(c) Bombay
(d) Kalikata
Answer: (d) Kalikata

93. Tipu Sultan stopped export through his kingdom in
(a) 1764
(b) 1772
(c) 1785
(d) 1790
Answer: (c) 1785

94. The first English factory was set up in the year
(a) 1600
(b) 1651
(c) 1655
(d) 1665
Answer: (b) 1651

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95. Who discovered the sea route to India in 1498?
(a) Columbus
(b) Dutch
(c) East India Company
(d) Vasco-da-Gama
Answer: (d) Vasco-da-Gama

96. Robert Clive committed suicide in the year
(a) 1770
(b) 1743
(c) 1767
(d) 1774
Answer: (d) 1774

97. The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in the year
(a) 1743
(b) 1752
(c) 1761
(d) 1763
Answer: (c) 1761

98. Rani Channamma was the ruler of
(a) Bengal
(b) Kitoor
(c) Agra
(d) delhi
Answer: (b) Kitoor

99. Haidar Ali was the ruler of
(a) Bengal
(b) Delhi
(c) Bombay
(d) Mysore
Answer: (d) Mysore

100. European trading companies were attracted to India due to
(a) cheap land
(b) cheap labour
(c) raw material like cotton silk and spices
(d) none of these
Answer: (c) raw material like cotton silk and spices

101. Competition among the companies resulted in
(a) reduced profits of companies
(b) quality of goods increased
(c) price became low
(d) none of these
Answer: (a) reduced profits of companies

102. The Champaran movement was against
(a) peasants
(b) East India Company
(c) the oppressive attitude of the planters
(d) none of the above
Answer: (c) the oppressive attitude of the planters

103. The Company was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal in
(a) 1762
(b) 1763
(c) 1764
(d) 1765
Answer: (d) 1765

104. Gandhiji visited Champaran
(a) to see the plight of Indigo planters in Champaran
(b) to see the progress of’Indigo plantation
(c) to see the managing system of company
(d) none of the above
Answer: (a) to see the plight of Indigo planters in Champaran

105. Who devised the new-system of revenue called Mahalwari?
(a) Queen Elizabeth
(b) Holt Mackenzie
(c) Queen Victoria
(d) Gandhiji
Answer: (b) Holt Mackenzie

106. Growers of woad in Europe saw crop as competition to their earnings.
(a) tea
(b) rubber
(c) indigo
(d) coffee
Answer: (c) indigo

107. Indigo production came down in Bengal in
(a) 1850
(b) 1852
(c) 1855
(d) 1859
Answer: (d) 1859

108. Who had developed the Munro system?
(a) Capiain Alexander
(b) Holt Mackenzie
(c) Thomas Munro
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Thomas Munro

109. How much proportion of Indigo was imported from India by Britain in 1810?
(a) 75%
(b) 95%
(c) 90%
(d) 85%
Answer: (b) 95%

110. H.T. Colebrook describes the conditions of the under-tenant farmers in
(a) 1800
(b) 1805
(c) 1806
(d) 1810
Answer: (c) 1806

111. After harvest, the indigo plant was taken to the in the indigo factory.
(a) dye
(b) vat
(c) farm
(d) machine
Answer: (b) vat

112. The international demand of indigo was affected by the discovery of
(a) synthetic dyes
(b) woad
(c) blue colour
(d) none of these
Answer: (a) synthetic dyes

113. Marathi newspaper ‘Kesari’ was edited by
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Balgangadhar Tilak
(c) Chitta Ranjan Das
(d) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: (b) Balgangadhar Tilak

114. Lala Lajpat Rai was a nationalist from
(a) Bengal
(b) Bihar
(c) Punjab
(d) Haryana
Answer: (c) Punjab

115. Which of the following movement is associated with Chitta Ranjan Das?
(a) Quit India Movement
(b) The Salt March
(c) Non-Cooperation Movement
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Non-Cooperation Movement

116. The founder of Khudai Khidmatgars was
(a) Mohammad Ali
(b) Shaukat Ali
(c) Badshah Khan
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Badshah Khan

117. Who established Natal Congress?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Balgangadhar Tilak
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: (b) Mahatma Gandhi

118. Bengal was divided by the British in the year
(a) 1900
(b) 1910
(c) 1905
(d) 1920
Answer: (c) 1905

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119. Hindustan Socialist Republic Association was related with the nationalist
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Balgangadhar Tilak
(c) Bhagat Singh
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Bhagat Singh

120. The Vernacular Press Act was enacted in
(a) 1840
(b) 1857
(c) 1878
(d) 1890
Answer: (c) 1878

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