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ANSWER KEY - MODEL EXAM MARCH 2022
1 Akkamma Cheriyan 1
2 Aerial remote sensing 1
3 Governor 1
4 Vallathol Narayana Menon 1
5 December 22 1
6 Adolf Hitlar 1
7 Micro Finance 1
8 Veluthambi 1
9 Cotton 1
10 Police station 1
11 Direct tax and Indirect Tax 1 + 1
12 1. The cheapest means of transport.
2. Does not cause environmental pollution.
3. Most suited for international trade.
4. Suitable for large scale cargo transport
5. Tourism (Any two)
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13 1. Sense of responsibility
2. Respect
3. Inspiration and encouragement
4.The concept of that each individual is for the family and the family is for the society
(Any two)
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14 1. The right to be protected against the marketing of goods and services which are
hazardous to life and property.
2. The right to be informed about the quality related aspects of goods and services.
3. The right to have access to goods and services at fair prices.
4. The right to be heard and to seek re dressal at appropriate forums.
5. The right to consumer education. (Any two)
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15 1. Analysis of the physical and the cultural features of the earth surface.
2. For military operations and the preparation of military maps.
3. Identification and studying of the natural and the cultural resources of a region as
part of economic planning.
4. For urban planning.
5. Identifying the location of a particular place (Any two)
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16 1. Can receive service with the help of information technology.
2. Need not to wait in government offices for services.
3. Government services offered speedily and with less expense.
4. Efficiency of the offices and quality of the service get enhanced.(Any two)
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17 Surplus Budget, Deficit Budget, Balance Budget (Any two) 1+1
18 1. For ocean explorations
2. To understand the land use of an area.
3. For the monitoring of flood and drought
4. For identifying forest fires in deep forests and to adopt controlling measures
5. To collect data regarding the extent of crops and spread of pest attack
6. For oil explorations
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7. To locate ground water potential (Any two)
places
19 1. Production increases with the increase in efficiency and the number of working
days.
2. Natural resources can be utilised properly.
3. Medical expense can be reduced, thereby reducing the government's expenditure.
4. Economic development is possible through increase in production
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20 1. Resistance to colonialism and imperialism
2. Hostility to racism
3. Trust in the United Nation Organisation
4. Peaceful co-existence
5. Panchasheel principles
6. Emphasis on the necessity of foreign assistance
7. Policy of Non Alignment (NAM) (Any four)
1 x4
21 1.Social survey
2. Interview
3. Observation
4. Case study
1 x4
22 1. Education
2. Literacy rate
3. Health care
4. Life expectancy
1 x4
23 Map study 1 x 4
24 Athmaram Pandurang - Prarthana samajam
Sree Narayana Guru - Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam
Raja ram Mohan Roy - Brahma samajam
Swami Dayananda saraswathi - Arya samajam
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25 1. Vasantham
2. Greeshman
3. Sarath
4. Hemantham
5. Sisiram
6. Varsham
1 x 4
26 Citizenship is full and equal membership in a nation. Citizenship enables a person to
experience political and civil rights.
Natural citizenship : Citizenship by birth
Acquired citizenship : Citizenship acquired on the basis of legal procedure of of a
nation
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27 (i) 1. Agricultural purposes
2. Industrial purposes
3. Constructing houses
4. Purchasing vehicles
5. Purchasing home appliances
6. Any other relevant purpose
(ii) 1. Physical assets - gold, property documents, etc.
2. Fixed deposit certificates
3. Any other relevant answer
1/2 x 6
1 x 3
28 Permenant settlement act
1. Tax collected by zamindars
2. Zamindar was the owner of land
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3. The actual farmers became tenants
4. 60% of total yield has to given as tax
5. Tax was to paid even in the time of poor yield
6. The tax has to pay in the form of cash (any three )
Ryotwari system
Tax collected directly from farmers
Excessive tax
Tax rate frequently increased
29 Western coastal plain Eastern coastal plain
1. Between the Arabian Sea and the • Between the Bay of Bengal and the
Western Ghats Eastern Ghats
2. From the Rann of Kutchh to Kanyakumari • From the Sundarban delta region to
Kanyakumari
3. Comparatively narrow • Comparatively wide
4.. Can be divided into Gujarat coast, • Can be divided into north Zircar
Konkan coast, and Malabar coast plain and Coromandal coast
5. Backwaters and esturies are seen • Delta formation takes place
6. Low fertility . High fertility
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30 Results of Ist world war
1.Over 10 million people lost lives or seriously injured
2.Economic power of Europe comes to an end
3.Poverty, unemployment and inflation
4.Agriculture, industry and communication system destroyed
5. Formation of League of Nations
6. Several ruling dynasties lost their power
7. Emergence of America (Any six)
Versailles Treaty
1. Versailles Treaty signed with Germany in 1919
2.German colonies were divided among the victorious powers
3. Germany was forced to pay a huge amount as war indemnity.
4. The allies occupied the rich mines of Germany.
5. Above all war guilt was imposed on Germany and was disarmed.
(Any three)
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31 Black soil,Red soil,Laterite soil, desert soil, alluvial soil, Mountain soil 6
32 Any six issues faced by public and remedies for that 6
33 (i)Lahore congress session
-The ultimate aim of Indian freedom struggle was get full freedom(poorna
swaraj)
-Starting civil disobedience movement under Gandhiji as leader
(ii)Proposals made by Gandhi
-To lift salt tax
-Declare 50% tax relaxation to farmers
-Increase the import tax for foreign products
-To release political prisoners
-To cut the military budgets and high salary given to British officers
-To dissolve secret wings formed to watch Indians
-To start coastal shipping service
-To implement prohibition of liquor
(iii)Salt as powerful weapon
-Two fifth of the total tax revenue collected from salt
-Heavy tax burden
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-The British government banned small scale indigenous salt production
-Three fold hike in salt price
-The demand for ‘lifting salt tax’ is suitable slogan in all part of society
(iv)Centres
Payyannur in Kerala,
Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu, Bombay in Maharashtra,
Noakhali in Bengal and North West Frontier Province
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34 The different planetary winds
• Trade winds
the winds blow continuously towards the equatorial low pressure belt.
North east trade winds and South east trade winds.
ITCZ
• Westerlies
As the direction of these winds is moslty from the west, they are known as the
westerlies.
The westerlies are stronger in the Southern Hemisphere thanin the Northern
Hemisphere.
Roaring Forties' along 40° latitudes), 'Furious Fifties' (along 50° latitudes)
and'Shrieking Sixties' (60° latitudes).
• Polar easterlies
The polar winds are the cold winds that blow from these high pressure areas towards
the sub polar low pressure belts.
These winds blow from the East in both the hemispheres due to the Coriolis Force
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35 Writers
Maxim Gorky, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekov Karl marx
and Frederic Angels motivated the workers
February revolution
- Social Democratic Party split as Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
- Bolshevik party lead by Lenin and Menshevik party by Alaxander
Kernsky
-Financial crisis become crucial in Russia and workers marched in
to Petrograd city for economic and political rights
- Soldiers suppressed the march and several got massacred Known
as Bloody Sunday
- Formation of the organisation “ Soviet”
- The emperor forced to summoned the parliament ‘Duma’
- Ignoring the demands of workers emperor participated in the first
world war
-Food shortage become severe, women and children marched to
Petrograd city
- Initially soldiers not supported the workers, later they joined the
workers movement because of the Russian involvement in the first
world war the workers captured the Petrograd city and formed a
provisional government by Alexander Kerensky
-This event is known as February Revolution
October revolution
- Some Soviet workers did not approve the provisional government
- Lenin come back to Russia and join with the Soviet party
- He propagated the idea that only workers can made a powerful
government and eradicate backwardness of a country
- He demanded Russia to withdraw from first world war
- Bolsheviks organised armed rebellion against provisional
government
- Kerensky fled from Russia and Bolsheviks attained power
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Results
- A cabinet was formed with Lenin as head
- Russia withdraw from the first world war
- Land distributed among the workers
- Factories, Banks, Transportation and foreign trade become under
publicownership
- Introduced centralised planning
- Economic and political backwardness comes to an end
- Scientific and technological progress attained
- Formulated a new constitution
- Formation of USSR
- Socialist ideology spread all over the world
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