SA - II

Class X (CBSE) 2017

Subject - Science
Time: 3 Hours Max.
Marks: 90
Date:

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The question paper comprises of two Sections, A and B.
2. All questions are compulsory.
3. Question numbers from 1 to 3 in Section - A are one mark questions. These are to be
answered in one word or in one sentence.
4. Question numbers from 4 to 6 in Section A are two marks questions. These are to be
answered in about 30 words each.
5. Question numbers from 7 to 18 in Section A are three marks questions. These are to be
answered in about 50 words each.
6. Question numbers from 19 to 24 in Section A are five marks questions. These are to be
answered in about 70 words each.
7. Question numbers from 25 to 33 in Section B are multiple choice questions based on
practical skills. Each question is one mark question. You are to select one most appropriate
response out of the four provided to you.
8. Question numbers from 34 to 36 in Section B are questions based on practical skills. Each
question carries two marks.

SECTION A

1. Write the name and structure of an alcohol with three carbon atoms in its molecule.
2. What is DNA and where is it found in a cell?
3. In a food chain of frog, grass, insect and snake, assign trophic level to frog.
4. The absolute refractive indices of glass and water are 4/3 and 3/2, respectively. If the speed of
light in glass is 2 x 108 m/s, calculate the speed of light in (a) vacuum and (b) water
5. In Area A, the leaf material available to beetles was very less. What are the two consequences
seen in the beetles?
6. The magnification produced by a spherical mirror is -3. List four informations you obtain from
this statement about the mirror/image.
7. Calcium is an element with atomic number 20. Stating reason answer each of the following
questions:
(i) Is calcium a metal or non-metal?
(ii) Will its atomic radius be larger or smaller than that of potassium with atomic number 19?
(iii) Write the formula of its oxide.
8. What is meant by Isomers? Draw the structure of two isomers of butane. C 4H10. Explain what
cannot we have isomers of first three members of alkane series.
9. An element M with electronic configuration (2,8,2) combines separately with (NO 3)-, (SO4)2-
and (PO4)3- radicals. Write the formula o three compounds so formed. To which group and
period of the Modern Periodic table does the element M belong? Will M form covalent or ionic
compounds? Give reason to justify your answer.

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10. Two elements A and B belong to the 3rd period of Modern Periodic table and are in group 2
and 13 respectively. Compare their following characteristics in tabular form:
(a) Number of electrons in their atoms
(b) Size of their atoms
(c) Their tendencies to lose electrons
(d) The formula of their oxides
(e) Their metallic character
(f) The formula of their chlorides
11. List three distinguishing features of sexual and asexual reproduction in tabular form.
12. The genotype of green-stemmed tomato plants is denoted by GG and that of purple-stemmed
tomato plants as gg. When these two plants are crossed:
(i) What colour of stem would you expect in their F1 progeny?
(ii) Give the percentage of purple-stemmed plants if F1 plants are self-pollinated.
(iii) In which ratio would you find the green and purple colour in the F1 progeny?
13. Two areas of study namely evolution and classification are interlinked. Justify the
statement.
14. What is multiple fission? How does it occur in an organism?
15 A student wants to project the image of a candle flame on a screen 48 cm in front of a mirror
by keeping the flame at a distance of 12 cm from its pole.
(a) Suggest the type of mirror he should use.
(b) Find the linear magnification of the image produced.
(c) How far is the image from its object?
(d) Draw the ray diagram to show the image formation in this case.
16. What is meant by power of a lens? What does its sign (+ve or ve indicate? State its SI unit.
How is this unit related to focal length of a lens?
17. State the laws of refraction of light. If the speed of light in vacuum is 3 x 10 8 m/s, find the
speed of light in a medium of absolute refractive index of 1.5.
18. An object of height 5 cm is place perpendicular to the principal axis of a concave lens of length
10 cm. If the distance of the object from the optical centre of the lens is 20 cm, determine the
position, nature and size of the image formed using the lend formula.
19. (a) Give a chemical test to distinguish between saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbon.
(b) Name the products formed when ethane burns in air. Write the balance chemical equation
for the reaction showing the types of energies liberated.
(c) Why the reaction between methane and chlorine in the presence of sunlight is considered a
substitution reaction?
20. (a) Name the human male reproductive organ that produces sperms and also secretes a
hormone. Write the functions the secreted hormone.
(b) Name the parts of human female reproductive system where
(i) Fertilization takes place
(ii) Implantation of the fertilized egg occurs
21. What is pollination in plants? How does pollination lead to fertilization? Explain.
22. (a) Define optical centre of a spherical lens.
(b) A divergent lens has a focal length of 20 cm. At what distance should an object of height 4
cm from the optical centre of the lens be placed so that its image is formed 10 cm away from
the lens. Find the size of the image also.
(c) Draw a ray diagram to show the formation of image in above situation.
23. Draw a labeled diagram of human eye and explain different defects of vision with the methods
of correction.
24. Both soap and detergent are some type of salts. What is the difference between them?
Describe in brief the cleansing action of soap. Why do soaps not form lather in hard water? List
two problems that arise due to the use of detergents instead of soaps.

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SECTION B

25. Student adds a few drops of ethanoic acid to test-tubes X, Y and Z containing solutions of
sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate, respectively. After adding ethanoic
acid in each one of them, in which of the test-tubes the flam will be extinguished?
(A) X and Y (C) Y and Z
(B) X and Z (D) Only Z
26. A student is observing a diagram showing the path of a ray of light passing through a glass
prism. He would find that for all angles of incidence, the ray of light bends:
(A) Towards the normal while entering the prism and away from the normal while emerging
from the prism
(B) Away from the normal while entering the prism and towards the normal while emerging
from the prism
(C) Away from the normal while entering as well as emerging from the prism
(D) Towards the normal while entering as well as emerging from the prism
27. When ethanoic acid is added to the solution of substance X, colourless and odourless gas y is
liberated. The gas Y turns lime water milky. The substance X is:
(A) Sodium hydrogen Carbonate (C) Sodium Hydroxide
(B) Sodium acetate (D) Sodium chloride
28. A student while observing an embyo of a pea seed in the laboratory listed various parts of the
embryo as given below:
testa, tegmen, radical, plumule, micropyle, cotyledon
On examining the list, the teacher remarked that only three parts are correct. Select the
correct parts from the above list:
(A) testa, radical, cotyledon (C) cotyledon, plumule, testa
(B) tegmen, radical, micropyle (D) radical, cotyledon, plumule
29. Select the incorrect statement about budding:
(A) A bud always arises from a particular region a parent body.
(B) A bud may arise from any part of a parent cell.
(C) Before detaching from the parent body a bud may form another bud.
(D) A bud may separate from the parent body and develop in to a new individual
30. If you are asked to select a group two vegetables, out of the following, having homologous
structures which one would you select?
(A) Carrot and Reddish (C) Potato and tomato
(B) Potato and sweet potato (D) Lady finger and potato
31. To determine the approximate value of the focal length of a concave mirror, you focus the
image of a distant object formed by the mirror on a screen. The image obtiained on the
screen, as compared to the object is always:
(A) Laterally inverted and diminished (C) Erect and highly diminished
(B) Inverted and diminished (D) Erect and magnified
32. Reena was given two permanent slides, one of binary fission in Amoeba and another of
budding in yeast. She was asked to identify a difference in the nucleus of the two processes.
She identified correctly the presence of:
(A) One nucleus in Amoeba and two in yeast, one in bud.
(B) Two nuclei in centrally constricted Amoeba, one in yeast cell, one in bud.
(C) Two distinct nuclei in Amoeba, one in yeast cell and two in bud.
(D) Single nucleus each in Amoeba and yeasy cell, and one in its attached bud.
33. Which of the following is a correct set of homologous organs?
(A) Forelimbs of frog, bird and lizard (C) Wings of bat and wings of butterfly
(B) Spine of cactus and thorn of bougainvillea (D) Wings of a bird and wings of a bat

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34. A student is studying the properties of acetic acid in his school laboratory. List two physical and
two chemical properties, which he must observe and note in his record book.
35. Draw a labeled longitudinal structure of a flower showing its parts.
36. A student focuses the image of a well illuminated distant object on a screen using a convex
lens. After that he gradually moves the object towards the lens and each time focuses its
image on the screen by adjusting the lens.
(i) In which direction-towards the screen or away from the screen, does he move the lens?
(ii) What happens to the size of the image-does it decrease or increase?
(ii) What happens to the image on the screen when he moves the object very close to the
lens?

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