Tuesday, 5 September 2017

CBSE- Social Science Question Bank Mid term Portion - Geography & Democratic Politics



STD:X                                  Democratic Politics - Question Bank
1.Power Sharing
1.Why French and Dutch conflicted in Belgium?
2.Why Tamil people struggled against the government in Srilanka?
3.How accommodation was made in Belgium?
4. What is Tamil Eelam? Who demanded Tamil Eelam? Why it was demanded?     
     What happened to that demand?
5.What is special about the Community Government?
6.Why power sharing is desirable? Or Do we need power sharing?
7.Expalin the different forms of power sharing?
8. What are Ethnic groups?
9.Majoritarianism is against of democracy – Justify
10.What is Civil war? Give an example.
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2.Federalism
11.What is federalism?
12.How federation contrasting with unitary government? Or Differentiate Unitary  
     government and Federation.
13.List out the key features of Federalism.
14.What are the dual objectives of the federal system?
15.Differentiate Coming together federations and Holding together federations
16.What are the aspects makes India a federal country?
17.Differentiate Union list and State list?
18.Differentiate State list and Concurrent list?
19.All the states in India do not have identical powers – Comment the statement.
20. Is it easy to make changes in the power sharing arrangement in India? Justify
       your answer.
21.Why central government resisted to create the linguistic states?
22.What is the Language policy of India? Or How our leaders shown flexibility in    
     language policy and protected the unity of India?
23.Write about the Centre and state government relationships in India.
24.What is coalition government? And How coalition government good for    
     democracy?
25.What is decentralization? How decentralization is important for democracy?
26.What was the major step taken in 1992 in decentralization?
27.What is Panchayat raj? What do you know about the panchayat raj?
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3.Democracy and Diversity
28.How Mexico Olympics reflected the racial discrimination of USA?
29.Classify the social differences on the basis of Origin.
30.Differntiate Overlapping and Cross-cutting social differences.
31.How do social divisions affect the politics? Explain with an example.
32.What are the three factors determining the outcomes of representing the social
      divisions in politics?
33.Homogeneous Society.
34.Migrant
35.Civil Rights movement in the USA
36.The Black power.
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4. Gender, Religion and Caste
37.What is sexual division of labour?
38.List out functions of feminist movements.
39.How can we say Our Indian families are traditionally Patriarchal?
40.Women and Literacy.
41.Women and education.
42.Women and work
43.Write about the status of child sex ration in India.
44.Women’s representation in politics.
45. Different views about religion.
46. What is communalism? How communalism act against the spirit of democracy?
47. How communalism takes various forms in politics?
48. How can we say India is a Secular state?
49. What do you know about the caste inequalities?
50. What are the factors has reduced the effects of caste in India?
51. Why caste still persist in India? Or what are the factor holds the caste
       sentiments in India?
52. How caste influence the politics / elections?
53. Justify that caste alone do not decide everything in the elections.
54. How politics influence the caste?
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Geography - Question Bank
1.Resources and Development
1.Define resources with an example.
2.Classify the resources on the basis of Origin
3.Classify the resources on the basis of Exhaustibility
4.Classify the resources on the basis of Ownership
5.Classify the resources on the basis of Status of Development
6.Development of resources led to various problems. Comment
7.Define Sustainable development.
8.Earth summit 1992.
9.What is Agenda 21.
10.What is resource planning? Why resource planning is important for the
      development of India.
11.List out the process involved in Resource Planning.
12.There are many regions in our country that are rich in resources but these are
      included in economically backward region. Give some reasons for this.
13.What do you mean by conservation of resources? Why conservation of resources
      is needed?
14.At the international level steps has been taken to conserve the resources. Justify
     the statement.
15.Define landuse.
16.List out the different land uses.
17. What is Land use pattern in India?
18.What is land degradation?
19.What are the reasons for land degradation in different parts of India?
20.List out the ways to solve the Land degradation.
21.Describe the origin, character, and distribution of Alluvial Soil in India.
22.Describe the origin, character, and distribution of Black Soil in India.
23.Describe the origin, character, and distribution of Red Soil in India.
24.Describe the origin, character, and distribution of Arid Soil in India.
25.Describe the origin, character, and distribution of Laterite Soil in India.
26.Describe the origin, character, and distribution of Forest Soil in India.
27.What is Soil erosion? What are the different types of soil erosion?
28.What is soil conservation?
29.How can we conserve soil from the erosion?
30.Differentiate Khadar and Bhangar
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3.Water Resources
31.Give a statistical account of water resources of world and status of India.
32.Explain the reasons for water scarcity in India.
33.What is Multi-Purpose projects?
34.Indians has a knowledge of water management since the ancient times.- Justify
     the statement with relevant examples.
35.List out the merits of Multi – Purpose projects.
36.Why Nehru called Multi – Purpose projects as “Temples of Modern India”?
37.How dams affect the aquatic life?
38.Dams has caused the raise many new social movement- comment the statement.
39.How irrigation changed the cropping pattern of India?

40.India has a tradition of water harvesting system. Prove the statement with
     relevant examples.
41.What is Palar pani?     42.What is Khadins?
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4.Agriculture
43.Define Agriculture.
44.Describe Primitive Subsistence Forming
45.Describe Intensive subsistence Forming
46.Differentiate Intensive subsistence forming and Commercial forming.
47.Explain about three major agriculture seasons of India.
48.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Rice.
49.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Wheat.
50.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Millets.
51.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Sugarcane.
52.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Cotton.
53.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Jute.
54.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Coffee.
55.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Tea.
56.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Pulses.
57.Write geographical conditions and distribution of Rubber.
58.The impact of Technical and Institutional Reforms in the Indian agriculture.
59.What do you know about the Blood – Less Revolution?
60.Which crop is known as Golden fiber of India? and give a reason.
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5.Minerals and Energy Resources
61.What are minerals? List some use of minerals.
62.Classify the minerals.
63.Differentiate Geologist and Geography
64.All living things need minerals. Comment.
65.What are Ores? Give some examples.
66.Explain the kinds of occurrence of minerals.
67.What is Rat hole mining? Where it is practiced?
68.When does the mineral deposit turn into a mine?
69.Write about the different types of Iron ores.
70.Which ranges looks like a Hump of an Ox? Which ranges looks like a face of the
     Horse?
71.Explain in detail about the major iron belts of India or distribution of iron ore in
      India.
72.Write about the significance and distribution of Manganese.
73.Write about the significance and distribution of Copper.
74.Write about the significance and distribution of Bauxite.
75.Write about the significance and distribution of Mica.
76.Write about the significance and distribution of Limestone.
77.Why mining is called killer industry?
78.Why there is a need to conserve minerals?
79.Differentiate the Conventional and Non-Conventional energy resources.
80.Write about the formation of coal and its distribution in India.
81.Classify the coal on the basis of carbon content.
82.Classify the coal on the basis of age.
83.Which industries are called Nodal industry? Why?
84.Write about the occurrences of Oil and Gas.
85.Describe the distribution of Oil and Gas.
86.Write about the Hydro- electricity in India
87.Write about the development of Nuclear energy in India.
87.Write about the development of Solar energy in India.
87.Write about the development of Wind energy in India.
87.Write about the development of Biogas energy in India.
87.Write about the development of Geo-Thermal energy in India.
87.Write about the development of Tidal energy in India.
88.Interpretate the following statement – “Energy saved is energy produced”.
89.Differentiate Ferrous and Non – Ferrous minerals
90.Differentiate Metallic and Non- Metallic minerals
91.Placer deposits
92.Veins
93.Lodes
94.Name the kind of Iron ore found abundant in India.
95.What do you know about the Hazards of Mining?
96.What are Anticlines.
97.Name the gas pipeline of India which connects various industries of North India.
98.Name the type of sands rich in Thorium.
99.How can we say India has enormous possibilities of tapping solar energy
100.What are flood gates? What is the importance of flood gates? Where they    are used? 
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