M.A.

V VIDYASHRAM
TERM
TERM- 1 MODEL QUESTION PAPER
GRADE IX – SCIENCE (086)

Time Allowed: 3 hours Roll No:

Maximum Marks: 80

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
 All questions are compulsory. However, an internal choice of approximately 33% would be
provided. 50% marks are to be allotted to competency
competency-based
based questions.
 Section A would have 16 simple/complex MCQs and 04 AssertionAssertion-Reasoning
Reasoning type questions
carrying 1 mark each.
 Section B would have e 6 Short Answer (SA) type questions carrying 02 marks each.
 Section C would have 7 Short Answer (SA) type questions carrying 03 marks each.
 Section D would have 3 Long Answer (LA) type questions carrying 05 marks each.
 Section E would have 3 source based based/case
/case based/passage based/integrated units of
assessment
 (04 marks each) with sub-parts
parts of the values of 1/2/3 marks.
SECTION A
1. Identify the part which contains pigment
pigment: (1)
(a) Cell membrane (b) Plastid (c) Centrosome (d)
(d Cell wall

2. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? (1)

a) Meristem — Actively dividing cells (b) Xylem — Transport of food
b) Phloem — Transport of water (d) Sclerenchyma — Storage of starch

3. Deepali tried to match the kind of supporting tissues in pl

plants
ants with their characteristic
features. She tabulated the pairs as follows: (1)

Supporting tissue Cellular structure

P Dead cells, have thick walls due to deposition of lignin
Q Elongated cells, cell wall is thickened at the corners
Identify P and Q
(a) P - Collenchyma, Q - Sclerenchyma (b) P - Sclerenchyma, Q - Collenchyma
(b) P - Parenchyma, Q - Sclerenchyma (d) P - Collenchyma, Q - Parenchyma

4. Which of the following organelles is involved in the formation of the acrosome of a sperm?
(1)
(a) Dictyosome (b)Centrosome (c) Lysosome (d)Golgi apparatus
5. Which of the following is not a function of epidermis? (1)
a) Protection from adverse condition (b) Gaseous exchange
b) Conduction of water (d) Transpiration.
6. Match column I with column II and select the correct option given below. (1)
COLUMN I COLUMN II
A. Secretion of enzymes 1. Mitochondria
B. Trapping of solar energy 2. Lysosomes
C. Synthesis of proteins 3. Golgi complexes and Dictyosomes
D. Intracellular digestion 4. Chloroplasts
E. Production of ATP 5. Ribosomes

7. Rapid elongation of a bamboo stem is due to (1)

(a) Lateral meristem (c) Intercalary meristem
(b) Apical meristem (d) Cambium

8. Assertion: Bark of trees are impervious to gases and water. (1)

Reason: Bark of tree made up of dead cell

9. Assertion : Chromosomes carry hereditary information from parents to offspring. (1)

Reason : Chromosomes are suspended in the cytoplasm of each cell whether it’s a plant cell
or an animal cell. Chromosomes are composed of RNA threads.

10. A. Explain the structure of Mitochondria. (2)

(OR)
B. Identify the given two slides A and B. Write the characteristic of A and B.

11. A. Name the kind of tissue found (2)

i. At the tip of plant roots iii. At the lower surface of leaf
ii. In the walls of the veins of leaves iv.As gritty masses in the skin of pears
(OR)
B. Write a shot note on Vacuoles. (2)

12.
i. Identify the given figures.
ii. Give any two major differences between the structures
identified.
iii. Describe the role performed by these two in the plant body.
13.Name the following (3)
a) Three essential parts of a living cell.
b) Three types of plastids.
c) Five parts of a nucleus.
d) Two cellular structures found only in plant cells.
e) Two types of cellular membranes on the basis of their permeability.

14. Identify the cellular structures with the help of the following clues : (3)
a) It is a colourless, translucent, viscous liquid found between the cell membrane
membran and
nuclear membrane.
b) It contains chromosomes.
c) It traps solar energy for the process of photosynthesis.
d) The selectively permeable, thin, delicate and flexible membrane.
e) The hereditary unit which is located on the chromosomes.

15.A. Explain the significance of the following: (5)

(i) Hair-like
like structures on epidermal cells.
(ii) Epidermis has thick waxy coating of cutin in desert plants.
(iii) Small pores in epidermis of leaf.
(iv) Numerous layers of epidermis in cactus.
(v) Presence of a chemical suberi
suberin in cork cells.

(OR)

B. The diagram given alongside represents a cell. Study the same and answer the following
questions:
a) Is it a plant cell or an animal cell ? Give reason in support of
your answer.
b) Label the guidelines 1 to 5
c) Name one structure shown in the figure which is found in both
plant and animal cells, but with different sizes.
d) What is the protective membranous covering of the part shown
as 3 called?
e) Name any two organelles.

16.Study the diagram given below and then answer the questions that follow:
follo (4)

i. Identify the tissue and give a reason to support your answer.

ii. Name the parts labelled X,Y and Z
iii. (a) Where is this tissue likely to be found in the plant?
(OR)
(b) State the function of the parts labelled X,Y and Z.
SECTION–B
17.The boiling point of water at sea level is (1)
(a) 0℃ (b) 273 K (c) 373 K (d) 273℃

18.Which of the following phenomena would increase on rising temperature? (1)

(a) Diffusion, evaporation, compression of gases
(b) Evaporation, compression of gases, solubility
(c) Evaporation, diffusion, expansion of gases
(d) Evaporation, solubility, diffusion, compression of gases

19.Which of the following conditions is most favourable for converting gas into liquid? (1)
(a) High pressure, low temperature (b) Low pressure, low temperature
(c) Low pressure, high temperature (d) High pressure, high temperature

20.Which of the following statements is true for pure substances? (1)

i. Pure substances contain only one kind of particle.
ii. Pure substances may be compounds or mixtures.
iii. Pure substances have the same composition throughout.
iv. Pure substance can be exemplified by all elements other than nickel.
(a) (i) and (ii) (b) (i) and (iii) (c) (iii) and (iv) (d) (ii) and (iii)

21.What does the statement “10 percent glucose in water by mass” signify?
(a) 10 gram of glucose dissolved in 100 grams of water.
(b) 10 gram of glucose dissolved in 90 grams of water.
(c) 20 gram of glucose dissolved in 200 grams of water.
(d) 20 gram of glucose dissolved in 90 grams of water.

22.Sol and gel are examples of —————— (1)

(a) Solid-solid colloids
(b) Sol is a solid-liquid colloid and gel is liquid-solid colloid
(c) Sol is solid- solid colloid and gel is solid-liquid colloid
(d) Sol is a liquid-solid colloid and gel is a solid-liquid colloid

23.Cooking of food and digestion of food: (1)

(a) Both are physical process
(b) Both are chemical process
(c) Cooking is physical whereas digestion is chemical
(d) Cooking is chemical whereas digestion is physical

24.If the mass of a body is 9.8 kg on the earth, what would be its mass on the moon?
25.A motorboat starting from rest on a lake accelerates in a straight line at a constant rate of
3ms-2 for 8 seconds. How far does the boat travel during this time?
(or)
What keeps the moon in uniform circular motion around the earth?
26. Assertion: When a solid melts, its temperature remains the same. (1)
Reason: The heat gets used up in changing the state by overcoming the forces of attraction
between the particles.

27. A student heats a beaker containing ice and water. He measures the temperature of the
content of the beaker as a function of time. Which of the following figure would correctly
represent the result? Justify your choice. (2)

28. (i) Comment on the following statements: (3)

(a) Evaporation produces cooling.
(b) The rate of evaporation of an aqueous solutio
solution n decreases with an increase in humidity.
(c) Sponge though compressible is solid.
(OR)
(ii) A solution contains 30 g of glucose, 20 g ooff salt in 500 mL of water. Calculate the
mass per cent of glucose, salt?

29.Distinguish true solution, suspension and colloidal solution. (3)

30. A. (5)
i. Convert the following temperature to Celsius scale:
(a) 300 K (b) 573 K (1)
ii. What is the physical state of water at:
(a) 250°C (b) 100°C (1)
iii. Arrange the following in order of increasing density: air, exhaust from chimneys,
honey, water, chalk, cotton and iron
iron. (1)
iv. Arrange the following substances in increasing order of forces of attraction between
the particles—water,
water, sugar, oxygen. (1)
v. Illustrate a flowchart representing interconversion of three states of matter.

(1)

(OR)
(B)
(i) How can we say that sugar is a pure substance whereas milk is not?
(ii) Give an example for each of the following:
(1) Solid – Liquid homogenous mixture.
(2) Gas – Gas homogenous mixture.
(3) Liquid – Liquid heterogenous mixture
(iii) The melting points of three substances A, B, and C are 520C, 1750C and 800C.

Arrange them in the decreasing order of the inter-particle forces of attraction in each of them.
Give a reason for your answer.

31.A group of students took an old shoe box and

covered it with a black paper from all sides.
They fixed a source of light (a torch) at one
end of the box by making a hole in it and made
another hole on the other side to view the light.
They placed a milk sample contained in a
beaker/tumbler in the box as shown in the
figure. They were amazed to see that milk
taken in the tumbler was illuminated. They
tried the same activity by taking a salt solution
but found that light simply passed through it.
i. Can you suggest two more solutions that would show the same effect as shown by the milk
solution?
ii. The same results were not observed with a salt solution. Explain.
iii. Explain why the milk sample was illuminated. Name the phenomenon involved
(OR)
(b) Name the solutions in which the above effect is shown and write their characteristic
features.
(OR)
(a) Colloidal solution, suspension may or may not show the effect. (½)

32.Rocket works on the principle of conservation of?

a) Mass b) Energy c) Momentum d) Velocity

33.What happens to the gravitational force if the distance between two objects is halved?
a) It becomes half b) It becomes four times
c) It remains unchanged d) It becomes double
34.Directions:
(a) Both A and R are true and R is correct explanation of the assertion.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
Assertion(A): In an isolated system the total momentum remains conserved.
Reason(R): Rate of change of momentum is proportional to applied force.

35.The Weight of the body at a certain place is 30 N. The acceleration due to gravity at that
point is 10 m/s2. Find out the mass and weight of the object at the place where acceleration
due to gravity is zero?

36.State which of the following situations are possible with an example. (3)
a) An object with a constant acceleration but with zero velocity.
b) An object moving in a certain direction with acceleration in the perpendicular direction.

37. (A) (i) Explain why is it difficult for a fireman to hold a hose, which ejects a large amount of
water at a high velocity.
(ii) Why action and reaction do not cancel each other?
(or)
(B) A bus starting from rest moves with a uniform acceleration of 0.1 ms -2 for
f 2 minutes. Find
a) the speed acquired b) the distance travelled

38.A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 10m in 40 seconds. What will be
the magnitude of displacement of the farmer at the end of 2 minutes 20 seconds?
(or)
Write the difference between mass and weight.

39.Varshney Sir was demonstrating an experiment in his class with the setup as shown in the
figure below.

a) Give reason for the above observation.

b) Name the law involved in this case.