BANGALORE SAHODAYA SCHOOLS COMPLEX

ASSOCIATION (BsSCA)
PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION -TERM-II(2021-2022)
SET- I

Date:2802/2022 Max. Marks:40

Subject: Science (086) Time: 2 Hours

General Instructions:
1) All questions are compulsory.
ii) The question paper has three sections and 15 questions. All questions are compulsory.
Section-A has 7 questions of 2 nmarks cach: Section-B has 6 questions of 3 marks each: and

Section C has 2 case-based questions of 4 marks each.

iv) Internal choices have been provided in some questions. A student has to attempt only one of the
altermatives in such questions.

SECTION-A

1. a."Carbon always forms covalent bond". Comment on this statement. (2)

b. Why does the covalent compound have low boiling point and melting point?
2. In the following table. six elements A, B. C. D. E and F (here letters are not the usual symbols (2)
of the elements) of the Modern Periodic Table with atomic numbers 3 to 18 are given:
3 7 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

B D F

a. Which of these is a noble gas?

b. If B combines with E, what would be the formula of the compound formed?
c. Between A and B, whose atomic radius is more and why?
3. a. Where do the following functions occur? 2)
i. Production of an ege
ii. Fertilization
b. What happens to the lining of uterus:
i. Before release of a fertilized egg?

ii. If no fertilization occurs?

4. A parasitic organism is responsible to cause damage to the liver of cattle and human being. That (2)
organism can reproduce by opting both asexual and sexual method.
 found in it.
the mode of asexual
reproduction
.
ldentity the organism and name Justity your
considered as true
mode of reproduction? ,
b. Can that asexual mode of reproduction

eyes are likely to have parents with light (2)

.a. A study found that children with light-colored
or recessive?
colored eyes. On this basis, whether the light eve colour trait is dominant

Why or why not?

is an acquired
b. A boy of 15 years has attached ear lobes and weight of 65 kg. Which ofthese
character and which is inherited? Give reason for your choice.
OR
a. A normal pea plant bearing colored flowers suddenly starts producing white flowers.

What could be the possible cause?

b. How do the two factors for a character. present in diploid cells, behave at the time of gamete

formation?
6. a. Identify and define the device given below. (2)

N
A D
Split ringsS
(P and Q Brushes
(X and Y)
Axle

b. What would happen to the direction of rotation of coil in a motor if both current and magnetic field

were reversed simultaneously?

c. State the principle behind the working of this device.

OR
Observe the figure carefully and answer the following questions.

a. Name and state the rule used to find the direction of displacement of the rod, when current is passed

through it.
 b. ldentify the direction of displacement of the rod PQ, when the key is switched on.

7. Study the given diagram carefully and answer the following questions.
(2)

HEAT
Caturptan HEAT HEAT

(
SMAL BrRD
EAGLE
HEAT
a. If A is 5000KJ amount of energy which is entering into the first trophic level, what will be the
energy available in secondary consumer?

b. State the law associated with the above concept to justify your answer.
OR
We know that a food chain contains different organisms at different trophic levels in a typical
Ecosystem. n the diagram of energy flow in an ecosystem given below, identify the Secondary
Consumers and explain why did you choose it? What is A? Give reason for your answer.

Energy from SUN

SECTION-B
8. Study the data of the following three categories A, B and C. (3)
CATEGORY NAME OF THE ELEMENT ATOMIC MASS
Li
Na 23
K 39
B N 14
P 31
As 74

B 10.8
Al 27

Ga 69.7
 Write an

Dobereiner's Triads.
which forms V w
categories A, B and C. pick the
one
a. From the given three
three different groups?
elements of category A, B and C in
b. Why did Mendeleev placed
Give reason to justity your answer,
Octave applicable to all the three categories? Wri
c. Is Newland's law of
(3)
9.a. Define isomerism.
series.
possible isomers of fifth member of alkane homologous C
b. Draw the structures of all
OR

a. Define homologous series of organic compounds.

b. State any two characteristics of homologous series.

series
structure of the fourth member of a homologous
c. Write the name and electron dot

whose general formula is CnH2n+2.

(3)
10. A blue colour flower plant denoted by BB is cross bred with that of white colour flower plant
denoted by bb.
in their F1 generation plants.
a. State the colour of flower you would expect
white flower plants in F2 generation
if flowers of Fl plants
b. What must be the percentage of
are self-pollinated?
BB and Bb in the F2 progeny.
c. expected ratio of the genotypes
State the
of a suitable cross.
d. Support your a n s w e r with the help
(3)
electric appliances:
11. A household uses the following

a. of rating 400 W for ten hours each day.

Refrigerator
80 W each for twelve hours each day.
b. Two electric fans of rating

c. Six electric tubes of rating

18 W each for 6 hours each day.
household for the month of June
if the cost per unit of electric
Calculate the electricity bill of the

energy is 3.00.
20 ohms, Rs
=
60 ohms and a (3)
40 ohms, R3= 30 ohms, R4
=

10 ohms, R2
=

i) If in Figure Ri
=

12.
calculate:
connected to the arrangement,
12 volt battery is
a. the total resistance
circuit.
b. the total current flowing in the

R
R2
w.

12V
Rs

R4
K Rs
w r i t e an
expression for the heat produced in a conductor conneeted to a source
of potential difference
V when current T
a Nows through it for some time 't.
OR
. Write down the formula which relates electric
charge, tinme & electric current.
b. Why should the
resistance ot a Voltmeter be very large?
C. A copper wire of
resistivity 2.6 *
10* Qm, has a eross sectional area of 30 10 cm. Caleulate
the length of this wire required to make a 10 Q coil.
13. a. Plastic cups were used to serve tea in
train in early days-these could be returned to the vendors, (3)
cleaned and reused. Later, Kulhads
were used instead of plastic
cups. Now, paper cups are used
for serving tea. What the reasons
are for the shift from
plastic to Kulhads and then finally to paper
cups?
b. Why do most of the food chains have
only three to four trophic levels?
c. What is sewage? How is it different
from Garbage?
SECTION-C
This section has 02 case-based
questions (14 and 15). Each case is followed by 3
(a, b and c). Part a and b
sub-questions
are
compulsory. However, an internal choice has been provided in part c.
14. In rabbit, gray hair is dominant over white hair and
black eyes are dominant over red eyes.
A male (4)
pure-bred rabbit having gray hair and red eyes is crossed with female
a
pure-bred rabbit
having white hair and black eyes.
a. What will be the
genotype and phenotype of the off springs obtained from the above cross. (1 Mark)
b. What the
are
phenotype of the rabbits that have the following genotype?
(1 Mark)
i. Ggbb
i. ggBB
c. Write all possible genotypic expressions for
(2 Marks)
i. gray hairs and white hairs in rabbits.
ii. Black eyes and red eyes in rabbit

OR
List out all possible gametes produced by a hybrid male rabbit having grey hair and black eyes.

15. Answer the

questions that follow on the basis of your understanding of the following source (4)
based paragraph and the related studied concepts.
Michael Faraday was an experimental physicist. He introduces the
concept of the magnetic line of
force to represent a magnetic field visually. According to his
experiment, when bar magnet is
surrounded by little bits of iron filings, each a little magnet of its own. By
tapping the surface, the
iron filings arrange themselves in a particular pattern. They respond to an unseen presence- what
Faraday called it "lines offorce." The following sketch shows the lines of force due to a bar
magnet on the accumulated action on little iron filings.
a. What does the
degree of closeness of magnetic field lines near the poles signily? (1 Mark)
b. What happens if a bar
magnet is cut into two pieces along its length? (1 Mark)
C. i. Draw a
diagram indicating uniform magnetic field. (2 Marks)
ii. What is the direction
of magnetic field lines outside bar
a
magnet?

OR
i. A current flows downwards in a wire that passes vertically through a table top. What will be the
direction of magnetic field lines when
viewed from above the table?
ii. Two magnetic field lines never
intersect each other. Give reason.