SECTION -A
1. Rock is made up of minerals. What are minerals? [1]
2. The rock halck is a form of limestone. Unjumble the word. [1]
3. Give three ways in which building industries use rocks. [1]
4. Name the ore obtained from aluminum. [1]
5. Which rock group is the most common at Earth’s surface? [2]
6. State the key differences between physical and chemical weathering. [3]
SECTION-B
7. Application based Question
Can rock type influence how people earn a living. Explain. [3]
8. Skill based Question
i. Make a large copy of diagram B . Use at least half a page.
ii. Add these labels to the correctly at i ,ii and iii on your diagram. [1]
Igneous rock sedimentary rock metamorphic rock
iii. Add these labels to the correct arrows. Curve them?
Uplifted Uplifted melts to magma then cools buried under pressure Uplifted [1]
9. Image-based Question
(i) Overall UK has a high level of food security. Do you agree with this statement? Give two reasons. [2]
(ii) What is the use of food bank for the people living in UK? [1]
SGIS/CAIE/2025_26/Terminal Examination - I 1
10. Graph based Question-Study the graph and answer the following questions
(i) Which sector of economy is using most of the fresh water? [1]
(ii) Why does the people face the shortage of water though the Earth has plentiful of water? [2]
SECTION – C
Read the Case-study and answer the following questions
11. Water stress is where a country can’t meet its demand for fresh water as per prediction middle east
countries are going to face severe shortage of water whereas Brazil has 40 times more supply of water.
(i)Why some countries are facing water shortage? [2]
(ii) Name two countries facing the problem of water scarcity. [1]
(iii) Give reason why Brazil is having 40 times more the supply of water than any other countries. [2]
SGIS/CAIE/2025_26/Terminal Examination - I 2
Grade : 8 History Test Series I
1. Define the term
a. Suffragist 1M
b. Liberal Reforms 1M
2. Read Source A (Extract from Seebohm Rowntree’s 1901 report on poverty):
“These children presented a pathetic sight; all bore some mark of the hard conditions against which
they were struggling. Thin and feeble bodies, dirty and often sadly insufficient clothing, sore eyes,
filthy heads, cases of hip disease, swollen glands – all these and other signs told a tale of neglect.”
a. What does Source A tell you about the lives of poor children in Britain at the start of the 1900s? 2M
b. Using your knowledge, explain how reports like Rowntree’s influenced the Liberal Reforms after
1906. 2M
3. Compare the similarities and differences in the arguments used by suffragists and suffragettes to demand
the vote. 2M
4.“The Children’s Charter of 1908 showed that the government was beginning to take social reform seriously.”
How far do you agree? 3M
[Link] what ways were the lives of people change at the beginning to start of the twentieth century when major
discoveries and inventions were done at the beginning of the 20th century? 4M
[Link] you are a passenger who survived the Titanic. Who would you hold responsible for the tragedy?
Support your answer with three reasons. 3M
[Link] one example of how the Liberal government helped people in the early 1900s. Mention one way it
helped the unemployed and one way it helped the elderly. 2M
8. Based on given picture resource answer the following questions
a. Describe one achievement of the Wright brothers in the early 1900s. 1M
b. How useful is the above source image to a historian studying the impact of new technology on lives
of people in the early 20th century? Explain your answer using details from the given source and your
own knowledge. 2M
9. In 1912 the Titanic sank with heavy loss of life. Based on your knowledge, explain two lessons shipbuilders
and governments learned from the disaster. 2M