HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION-2019

SUB: SCIENCE
CLASS: IX FULL MARKS:80
Group-A (30 Marks)
1. Choose the correct answers from the following:- 1x5=5
(i) SI unit for measuring distance is:
(a) millimetre (b) centimetre (c) kilometer (d) metre.
(ii) Which is not a vector quantity:
(a) force (b) energy (c) acceleration (d) displacement.
(iii) The magnitude of inertia is determined by its:
(a) mass (b) weight (c) velocity (d) acceleration
(iv) The SI unit of momentum is :
(a) newton (b) newton-second (c) dyne (d) dyne-second
(v) When you kick a stone you get hurt. Due to which property this
happens:
(a) inertia of stone (b) velocity of the kick
(c) momentum of the kick (d) reaction of the stone.
2. Answer the following questions:- 2x3=6
(a) Define displacement.
(b) Define uniform circular motion with an example.
(c) State Newton’s First Law of motion.
3. Answer the following questions:- 3x3=9
(a) Give three differences between speed and velocity.
(b) What do you mean by positive acceleration and negative
acceleration?
(c) Why do the passengers fall backward, if a vehicle suddenly
accelerates?
4. A motor bike, initially moving at 18 km/h, accelerates at a rate of 5 m/s2 for
5 sec. Calculate (i) the distance covered by it from start, (ii) the final velocity.
5.
5. Deduce the relation F= ma. 5.
Or,
(a) Deduce the relation s= ut + ½ at2. 3 ½ + 1 ½ =5
(b) A car starts from rest and picks up a velocity of 54 km/h in 10 seconds.
Calculate the acceleration of the car.
 Group-B (30 Marks)
6. Choose the correct answer from the following:
(i) Which of the following is not matter?
(a) Air (b) Almonds (c) Love (d) Milk
(ii) Which of the following is not a homogeneous material?
(a) Milk (b) Salt solution (c) Muddy water (d) Brass
(iii) The freezing point of pure water is :
(a) zero K (b) 173 K (c) 373 K (d) 273 K
(iv) Which is not a pure substance among the following?
(a) Fresh orange juice (b) Sugar crystals (c) Mercury (d) Iron
(v) The technique followed in separation of common salt from its
aqueous solution is:
(a) evaporation (b) filtration (c) sedimentation (d) decantation
7. Answer the following questions:- 2x4=8
(a) Define latent heat of fusion.
(b) Define sublimation with an example.
(c) Why should we wear cotton clothes in summer?
(d) What do you mean by solvent and solute?
8. Answer the following questions:- 3x4=12
(a) Give three differences between True solutions and Colloidal
solutions.
(b) Give three characteristics of particulate nature of matter.
(c) Give three properties of solids.
(d) What is Tyndall effect? How is it produced?
9. How can you separate a mixture of common salt and ammonium chloride?
Explain. 5

Group – C ( 20 Marks)
10. Answer the following short questions:- 1x5=5
(a) Who invented the microscope?
(b) Who discovered the cell?
(c) Who coined the term protoplasm?
 (d) Who discovered the nucleus of the cell?
(e) Name the smallest cell.
11. Answer the following questions:- 2x2=4
(a) What do you mean by prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms?
(b) Why is Mitochondria known as the “ Power house of the Cell”?
12. Name the three regions of the cell. 3
13. Give the functions of the nucleus. 3
14. (i) Give two differences of animal cell and plant cell. 2
(ii) Draw and label plant cell. 3
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