Half Yearly Examination 2024-25
Class IX
Time: 3Hrs General Science M.M:80
General Instructions:
i) This question paper consists of 39 questions in 5 sections.
ii) All questions are compulsory. However, an internal choice is provided in some questions.
A student is expected to attempt only one of these questions.
iii) Section A consists of 20 objective type questions carrying 1 mark each.
iv) Section B consists of 6 very short answer type questions carrying 2 marks each And
Section C consists of 7 short answer type questions carrying 3 marks each.
v) Section D consists of 3 long answer type questions carrying 5 marks each
vi) Section E consists of 3 source based/case based units of assessment of 4 marks each with
sub parts.
SECTION A
Q.1. The property to flow is unique to fluids. Which one of the following statements is correct?
a. Only gases behave like fluids
b. Gases and solids behave like fluids
c. Gases and liquids behave like fluids
d. Only liquids are fluids
Q.2. Which condition out of the following will increase the evaporation of water?
a. Increase in temperature of water
b. Decrease in temperature of water
c. Less exposed surface area of water
d. Adding common salt to water
Q.3. Choose the correct statement of the following :
a. Conversion of solid into vapours without passing through the liquid state is called sublimation
b. Conversion of vapours into solid without passing through the liquid state is called vaporisation
c. Conversion of vapours into solid without passing through the liquid state is called freezing
d. Conversion of solid into liquid is called sublimation
Q.4. Which of the following are homogeneous in nature?
(i) Ice (ii) Wood (iii) Soil ( iv) Air
a. (i) and (iii)
b. (ii) and ( iv)
c. ( i) and (iv)
d. (iii) and (iv)
Q.5. Which of the following is correctly matched?
a. Emulsion-mud
b. Aerosol-jelly
c. Sol-milk of magnesia
d. Gel-face cream
Q.6. Which of the following is a metalloid?
a. Germanium
b. Gallium
c. Carbon
d. Sodium
Q.7. Which of the following are chemical changes?
(i) Decaying of wood
(ii) Burning of wood
(iii)Sawing of wood
(iv) Hammering of a nail into a piece of wood
a. (i) and (ii)
b. (iii) and (iv)
c. (ii) and (iii)
d. (i) and (iv)
Q. 8. Why is the weight of an object less on the Moon than on Earth?
a. Density of Moon is less than density of Earth
b. Moon is a satellite of Earth
c. Moon is far from Earth
d. Moon’s gravitational force is less than that of Earth
Q.9. Slope of a velocity-time graph gives:
a. The displacement
b. The distance
c. The acceleration
d. The speed
Q. 10. A ball is dropped from a height of 20m. If its velocity increases uniformly at the rate of 10
m/s², after what time will it strike the ground?
a. 1.414 s
b. 2s.
c. 4s
d. 5 s
Q.11. The momentum of an object at a given instant is independent of its:
a. Mass
b. Acceleration
a. Inertia
b. Velocity
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[Link] d. Mitochondria
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15. Leucoplasts are primarily organells which stores
a. Protein granules b. Oils
c. Starch d. All of these
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Q. no 17 to 20 are Assertion –Reason based questions. These consist of two statements –
Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Answer these questions selecting the appropriate option 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
[Link] (A):- Plants are upright stationary or fixed they don’t move.
Reason (R):-The plants have large quantity of supportive tissue which has generally dead cells.
[Link] (A):-Permanent tissue is composed of mature cells
Reason (R):- Meristematic tissue is a group of actively dividing cells
Q.19. Assertion (A): A solution do not exhibit Tyndall effect.
Reason (R) : Particles of true solution are very small in size.
Q.20. Assertion (A): The universal gravitational constant is same as acceleration due to gravity.
Reason (R) : Gravitational constant and acceleration due to gravity do not have same SI unit.
Section – B
Q.21. Why are seat belts provided in vehicles?
Or
Explain why is it difficult for a fireman to hold hose, which ejects large amount of water at a
high velocity?
[Link] is endocytosis found in animals only?
[Link] a diagrammatic labelled sketch of stem tip to show the location of meristematic tissue.
Q.24. Derive Newton’s first law of motion from the second law.
Q.25. State one instance where water undergoes a physical change and one in which it undergoes a
chemical change.
Or
Define a solution. Give an example of
(i) gas in liquid solution
(ii) gas in gas solution
26 Water hyacinth floats on water surface. Why?
Section – C
Q.27. Draw distance- time graphs for the following cases, when an object is in:
(i) Uniform motion
(ii) Non uniform motion
(iii) At rest
OR
A car starts from rest and acquires a velocity of 54km/h in 2 minutes. Find
(i) The acceleration and
(ii) Distance travelled by the car during this time.
Q.28. What happens to the force between two objects, if
(i) The mass of one object is doubled,
(ii) The distance between the objects is doubled,
(iii) The masses of both objects are doubled?
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[Link] reasons for the following
a. Viruses cannot reproduce outside a living cell.
b. Lysosomes are a kind of waste disposal system of cell.
c. Chloroplast are called kitchen of the cell.
OR
a. Define plasmolysis.
b. How is entoplasmic recticulam important for membrane biogenesis?
c. State two important functions of the nucleus of a cell.
Q.31. Define the followings with SI units
(i) Speed
(ii) Velocity
(iii) Acceleration
Q.32. (i) Write one point of difference between concentration and solubility.
(ii) What is the effect of temperature on the rate of solubility?
Q.33. Give reasons for the following:
(i) Camphor disappears if kept in open air for a few days.
(ii) Wet clothes do not dry easily on rainy days.
(iii) A gas cylinder cannot be half filled, why?
Section-D
Q.34. (i) State the law that provides the formula for measuring force and the law which provides
the definition of force.
(ii) A man throws a ball of mass 0.4kg vertically upwards 10 m per second. What will be its
initial momentum? What would be its momentum at highest point of its reach?
(iii)A motor car is moving with velocity of 90km/hr and it takes 5 second to stop after the brakes
are applied. Find the force exerted by the brakes on the motor car of its mass along with the
passengers is 1000kg.
35. a) How is the epidermis of the plants living in very dry habitats adapted?
b. Write the functions of stomata in the leaf.
c. Why are xylem and phloem called complex tissues? How are they different from each other?.
OR
a. Why meristematic tissues lack vacuoles?
b. Name the tissue that makes husk of coconut. Write two characteristics of this tissue.
c. How is cork formed? State their functions.
Q.36. Account for the following:
(i) When sugar crystals dissolve in water, the level of water does not rise appreciably.
(ii) A wooden table should be called solid.
(iii) Dogs generally hangout their tongue in summer.
(iv) Iron almirah is a solid at room temperature.
(v) Oxygen is called a gas.
OR
What is evaporation? Describe the factors that affect the rate of evaporation. Explain how each
factor influences the rate of evaporation.
Section -E
Q.37. We know from the second law of motion that force is the product of mass and acceleration.
There is acceleration involved in falling objects due to the gravitational force and is denoted by
g. There for the magnitude of the gravitational force F will be equal to the product of mass and
acceleration due to the gravitational force.
(i) What do you mean by free fall?
(ii) Give the formula to find out g.
(iii) Is value of g same at the places on the earth? Give reason for your answer.
OR
(iv) Write one point of difference between ‘g’ and ‘G’.
38. Plant and animal cells have several differences and similarities. For examples, animal cells do
not have a cell wall or chloroplasts but pants cells do. Animal cells are mostly round and irregular in
shape while plant cells have fixed rectangular shapes. Plant and animal cells are both eukaryotic
cells, so they have several features in commonly, such as the presence of a cell membrane, and cell
organelles like the nucleus, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.
(i) a. Name the cell organelle present only in plant and not in animal cell.
(ii) b. Name two cell organelle that you have their own genetic materials.
(iii) c. Why is mitochondria called ‘power house of cell' ?
OR
c. State two important functions of Golgi apparatus.
Q.39. The particles of a colloid are uniformly spread throughout the solution. Due to the relatively
smaller size of particles, as compared to that of a suspension, the mixture appears to be
homogeneous but actually a colloidal solution is a heterogeneous mixture.
(i) Give any two examples of a colloidal solution.
(ii) What is Tyndall effect?
(iii) Write one point of difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.
OR
(iv) Write any two properties of colloid.