HALF YEARLY EXAM (2018-19)

GRADE: IX MAXIMUM MARKS: 80

SUBJECT:SCIENCE TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS
General Instructions:
 The question paper comprises two Sections, A and B. You are to attempt both the sections.
 All questions are compulsory.
 All questions of Section A and Section B are to be attempted separately.
 There is an internal choice in three questions of three marks each, two questions of five marks each
in Section A and in one question of two marks in Section B.

SECTION-A
1. Which tissue is the coconut husk made of? [1]
2. Explain what a nucleoid is? [1]
3. (a) Mention the harmful effects of infectious diseases on the health of cattle? [1]
(b) How can you control these diseases? [1]
4. What is the nature of the distance-time graphs for uniform and non-uniform motion of an object? [1]
5. (a) How can you find the distance travelled by a body in uniform motion from the velocity-time
graph? [1]
(b) A body can have zero average velocity but not zero average speed. Justify giving an example. [1]
6. Explain the following.
(a) Gases exert pressure on the walls of the container. [1]
(b) Water is liquid at room temperature. [1]
(c) Evaporation causes cooling. [1]
7. (a) Name the separating techniques that you will use to separate: [1]
(i) Ammonium chloride from sodium chloride.
(ii) Different pigments from extract of flower petals.
(b) What is crystallisation? List two ways in which crystallisation is better than evaporation as a
separating technique. [1]
8. (a)Name the enzymes present in lysosomes. [1]
(b) State their function. [1]
(c) Name the cell organelles that produce these enzymes. [1]
9. A farmer had a plot just besides the bank of a river. Each time he planted Kharif crops, they got
damaged due to floods. He consulted the agricultural scientist who gave him a special variety of seeds
and advised him to practice fish farming.
(a) What was the specialty of seed grains? [2]
(b) What name can be given to this type of fish farming? [1]
OR
List any three factors for which crop variety improvement is done. [3]
10. (a) Name two types of animal feed and write their functions. [2]
(b)Why bee-keeping should be done in good pasturage? [1]
11. Pesticides have to be used appropriately and in accurate concentration. Justify. [3]
OR
What is a GM? Name any one such crop which is grown in India. Name the special trait that is possessed by
such crop. [3]
12. (a) 7 g of iron filings and 4 g of sulphur powder is treated with dilute sulphuric acid at room
temperature. Name the gas produced. [1]
(b)The same mixture is heated strongly, cooled and then treated with sulphuric acid .Which gas would
be produced? [1]
(c) What is the cause of this difference in results of chemical reaction in different conditions? [1]
1
13. Derive s  ut  at
2
[3]
2
14. An object starting from rest travels 20 m in first 2 s and 160 m in next 4 s. What will be the velocity
after 7 s from the start? [3]
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(a) What are the characteristics of the cardiac muscle? [2]
(b) Which protein in the muscles cause movement and how? [1]
15. (a)State the law of conservation of momentum. [1]
(b) How much momentum will an object of mass 10 kg transfer to the floor if it falls from a height of
5 m?(g =10 m/s) [2]
16. (a) Give reasons for the following:
(i) Multicellular organisms are considered more efficient. [1]
(ii) Sclerenchyma cells have a narrow lumen. [1]
(iii) Epidermis is thicker in desert plants though it is usually single layered. [1]
(b) Name the following: [2]
i) Tissue that occurs in specific regions of growth.
ii) Tissues present at the growing tips of stems and roots.
iii) Tissues at the base of the leaves or internodes on twigs.
iv) Basic packing tissue in the form of a few layers of cells.
17. (a)Differentiate between capture fishing, mariculture and aquaculture. [5]
18. Write your observation when the following processes take place: [5]
(a) An aqueous solution of sugar is heated to dryness.
(b) A saturated solution of potassium Chloride prepared at 608 ℃ is allowed to cool at room temp.
(c) A beam of light is passed through a colloidal solution.
(d) Dilute HCl is added to mixture of iron and sulphur.
(e) Mixture of iron and sulphur is heated strongly.
OR
(a) How a pure substance is different from a mixture? [2]
(b) Write solute and the solvent for the following mixtures. [3]
(i) Sugar solution ii) Polluted air iii) Dil. hydrochloric acid
19. (a) Define melting point of a solid. [1]
(b) At what temperature in the Kelvin scale ice melt? [1]
(c) In the experiment to determine the melting point of ice, why does the temperature not rise till all
theice melts even through heat is continuously supplied? [2]
(d) What is this heat energy called? [1]

20. (a) What is weightlessness? [1]

(b) State the universal law of gravitation. Write SI unit of ‘G’. [2]
(c) State two factors on which value of ‘g’ depends. [1]
OR
Explain the structure and function of xylem and phloem. [5]
21. (a) State the Universal Law of Gravitation. [2]
(b) Differentiate between ‘Mass’ and ‘Weight’. [3]
SECTION-B
22. Which stain do you use for making a temporary stained mount? [2]
23. Give two identification features of striated muscle fibres. [2]
24. A sample of water under study was found to boil at 102oC at normal temperature and pressure. Is the
water pure? Explain. [2]
25. Explain as physical or chemical change: [2]
Zinc dissolves in hydrochloric acid with evolution of hydrogen gas.
26. If someone jumps to the shore from a boat the boat moves in the opposite direction. Why? [2]
OR
When solid particles in a liquid are very small to pass through a filter paper, what method of separation
can be used? [2]
27. Why will a sheet of paper fall slower than one that is crumpled into a ball? [2]