Saturday, 26 January 2013

Value Based Questions Class X Science



Chapter-1                  CHEMICAL REACTION AND EQUATIONS
Q-1. Why parents are advised to discourage their children to eat chips and junk food?

Chapter-2 ACID, BASES AND SALTS
 Q-2. Brushing our teeth twice a day is a well known saying. Justify this statement.
Q-3. Farmers are using a large number. of Pesticides and fertilizers in their fields to increase crop production and to enhance their profits. But by doing so they are causing damage to the soil as well as to the environment. Do you agree with this statement? Why should we avoid eating fruits and vegetables without washing them properly?

Chapter -3                      METALS AND NONMETALS
Q-4. Gold is a very precious metal. Pure gold is very soft it is therefore not suitable for making jewellery. It is alloyed with either Silver or Copper to make it hard. But sometimes jewellers mix a large quantity of copper and Silver in gold to earn more profit.
Q-i. What precautions should you take while purchasing gold jewellery?
Q-(ii). Why does Government insist on purchasing Hall Marked jewellery?
Q-5. Corrosion is a serious problem. Every year an enormous amount of money is spend to replace damaged iron. What steps can be taken to prevent this damage.
Q-6. Mercury is the only metal found in the liquid state. It is largely used in thermometers to measure the temperature. But mercury is a very dangerous metal as its density is very high. What two precautions you would take while handling the equipments containing Mercury?

Chaper-4.             CARBON AND ITS COMPOUNDS
Q-7. Mrs. Anita observed that her cooking utensils are becoming black in colour and the flame of her gas stove is yellowish in colour what can be the reason for this sooty flame. How is this problem harmful for our environment? What steps should be taken to stop this process.
Q-8. Ethanol is used on a large scale at commercial level this is a very useful chemical. It is commonly called alcohol and is the active ingredient of alcoholic drink. But consumption of alcohol also causes drunkenness and this practice is Socially condemned. As a responsible student of class –X what steps you would take to discourage the use of alcohol
Q-9. You must have seen advertisements stating that some vegetable oils are healthy. Saturated fatty acids which are said to be harmful for health. Why vegetable oils are considered healthy then Saturated fatty acids (ghee)? What precautions you would take in selecting a cooking oil

Chapter – 5    PERIODIC CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTS
Q-11. Ria and Rama are students of Class-X. Ria is very much organized and maintained. The teachers love her. She earns a great respect in the class where as Rama is un-organised and always faces a lot of problems in handling life situations.
(i). In your opinion how organization help in daily life?
(ii). How can you relate the above fact with the chapter classification of elements. How classification of elements help us in studying them properly?
Q-10. Adulteration is becoming a very serious problem of our society. Study reveals that more people die because of food adulteration rather than hunger. Shopkeepers mix harmful chemicals and things in food items to earn more profit which may even lead to deaths.
(i). Being a responsible citizen how can you fight against adulteration?
(ii). Give an example of food adulteration.
(iii) How will you test about the adulteration in this food item?

Chapter-6                                            LIFE PROCESSES
Q-12. Eating junk food results in several health problems including obesity and heart problems. Still lot of children prefer to eat junk food. What suggestion you will give to avoid eating junk food.
Q-13. Regular physical exercise for 45 minutes is advisable for normal functioning of human body. Comment upon the advantages of this statement/practice in daily life.
Q-14. Rahul wants to build up his body very quickly without following right exercise regime and balanced diet. Instead he started eating readymade food supplement.
i). In your opinion was the step taken by Rahul is right. Justify your answer.
ii). What are the harmful effects of taking artificial health supplement without consulting a physician.
Q-15. Om, Rohit and Kishore always remain in a hurry. One day, during lunch hour they all quickly gulped food and went out to play.
(i). Om suddenly developed stomach ache while playing. What according to you might have gone wrong with him.
Q-16. Meena who is studying in Class-X gets tired very soon and her skin colour is turning pale, her haemoglobin content in the blood is also low She is really confused about this situation.
i). Which disease is she suffering from.
ii). What kind of diet should she take to overcome this problem.
Q-17. Sohan went to his town Agra 200 Km away from Delhi with his father in a car. On the way there was lot of traffic jam. Sohan while reaching his town felt nausea and headache. He had inhaled lots of toxic polluted gases.
i). Which system/part of his body gets affected.
ii). What steps could be taken to reduce air pollution

CHAPTER-7. CONTROL AND COORDINATION
Q-18. Mayanks father never bothered to check the brand/contents of the salt he had purchased from the market. Mayank noticed that her sister had developed swollen neck. The doctor advised her to eat Iodised Salt.
i). Name the disease from which Mayanks sister suffered.
ii). Why the doctor has advised her to eat Iodised Salt?
Q-19. Injections are given to the cattle for the production of milk.
(i). Do you think it is a right practice.
(ii). What harm is this practice causing us?
Q-20. Often the road accidents victims faced really a tough time due to the shortage of blood in the hospital.
i). Give suggestion to avoid shortage of blood in the blood bank.
Q-21. A person is taking the insulin injection everyday.
(i). Name the disease he is suffering from.
(ii). How does healthy life style help this patient to control this disease?
Q-22. Most of students suffer from exam stress and anxiety during exam days.
i). Suggest three good habits which students should adopt to tackle this problem.
Q-23. Generally some of teenagers readily come under bad influences under peer group pressure.
(i). Why does teenagers readily come under this influence.
(ii). Suggest methods to overcome such problems.

Chapter-8                          HOW DO ORGANISMS REPRODUCE
Q-24. We hear and read about female foeticide, which is really is a wrong practice. In some families, be it rural or urban, females are tortured for giving birth to a girl child. They do not seem to understand the scientific reason behind the birth of a boy or a girl.
In your opinion,the approach of the society towards mother in this regard is correct or not? Explain the scientific reason.
Q-25. Mr. R. Sharma was suffering from various types of diseases presently. He went for thorough health checkups and was diagnosed as HIV+ve. Soon this news spread in his neighborhood and on account of this, he faced social isolation.
Comment upon:-
i. Do you think peoples indifference towards HIV+ve people is justifiable?
What kind of approach should we have towards the persons suffering from AIDS.
ii. How can one protect oneself from this diseases?
Q-26. It is a well known fact that pregnant womans health is a backbone of every family, society and thus nation
i). Which tissue is responsible for providing nutrition from mother to growing embryo?
ii). According to you, what can be the likely measures to maintain woman health during pregnancy.
Q-27. How can one justify this statement that “Like physical mental and social fitness, human beings need fitness of reproductive life” i.e. „Reproductive Health.
Q-28. Arjun and Ram are students of Class-IX. Both were initially good in studies. After some time academic performance of Arjun started declining and he became irritable. This change was noticed by his class teacher the teacher, while interacting with Arjun found out that he had six siblings and whole family lived in a single room.
Mother was not able to devote much attention to him and resources were not sufficient.
After going through the situation, what are the factors, which you think, are responsible for change in behaviour and his poor performance in studies.

Chapter-7 CONTROL AND COORDINATION
Q-29. Rahul got a bike on his 18th Birthday from his parents. His father instructed him always to wear helmet while driving. He reluctantly obeys him but does not tie the straps of Helmet properly.
(i). According to you, what danger Rahul can face in future while he is driving his bike.
(ii). Which vital organ/organs gets protection by wearing the helmet while driving the two wheelers?

CHAPTER-10-11 LIGHT, HUMAN EYE AND COLOURFUL WORLD
Q-30. „Vision is one of the wonderful gifts given to us by God. But most of the people never take care of their eyes. Care for eyes should be taken, suggest some methods for proper eye care
Q-31. Suddenly a news spread in the school that a student of class-IX-A has expired due to heart attack, but he has donated his beautiful eyes to one of his friend. All the members of school felt very sad for his untimely death, but on the other side they were overwhelmed on hearing the donation of his eyes to his friend, who would now be able to see this beautiful nature.
Do you think that the student who expired had done good job? Is it worth to donate vital organs?
Q-32. In a class-room, there were four or five students who were not able to read the material written on black board. The other students of class helped them to sit at the front seat, so that they can also read the material written on blackboard.
What can be the reason behind it, what will you recommend these students and what precautions you will insist them?
Q-33. On the rainy day, Ram reached his grandfathers place in village. On the way to house he saw a beautiful rainbow in this sky. In night, he saw lots of twinkling stars in the clear sky. He was very excited to see these beautiful natural phenomenon, which he was not able to see in th city, where he lived with his father.
Do you think that pollution in atmosphere effects the formation of rainbow and twinkling of starts. Do you agree with the fact that pollution free environment will strengthen such natural phenomenon in the cities as well ellaborate.
Q-34. We mostly read in newspaper, that few students went for picnic, but while boating one or two drowned in river. Situation below can be the reason for this.
Situation- while boating with parents, a child saw a beautiful fish in the river or lake. He/she tried to catch it, thinking that it is very closer to him/her. But situation became worse when he/she drowned in the river/lake instead of catching it Name the phenomenon that shows the apparent position of fish, explain it.
What precautionary measures you will suggest while boating.
Q-35. Generally, we observe that the adolescence age is the age of change in physical appearance, behaviour, mental level, etc. Because of these changes, the child of this age always loves to stand in front of mirror and feel happy. But if we think little more, we will observe that the mirror reflect both image physical as well as internal feelings that is whatever we think is also reflected by mirror.
Do you agree with this, comment on it.

Chapter 12-13 ELECTRICITY,MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF ELECTRIC CURRENT
Q No. 36 Suddenly the news spread in the school that the fire had broke out in examination room. All the important papers and office documents were burnt. The reason for this mishap was short circuiting.
What is short circuiting and what precautions can be taken to avoid such tragic incidents.
Q No. 37 Mr. Sharma a property dealer, had many expensive appliances at his home like fridge 3 air conditioners, geyser etc but he forgot to put earth wire connections to these appliances. One day his younger daughter opened the fridge and suffered a severe electric shock though, she was saved.
Why it happened and how can one save himself of herself from these electric shock by these electrical appliances.
Q No. 38 We generally use a device in an electrical circuit, which is essential for safety of appliance as well as life.
What is that safety device called?
How it works and helps us to live happily?
Do you think it is necessary for every place where electricity is used.
Q No.39 One day science teacher was teaching in her class, one of her student was very sad. The teacher asked her the reason, the way she responded amaze the students in the class room. She told the teacher of the mishap which took place in her locality where four members of a family died, as they were trying to theft electricity by connecting the conducting wire with the live wire on the street.
Now do you think is this practice of electricity theft good, how does ones conscience allows it. What advice would you like to give to improve such mind set?
Q No. 40 One day sohan went to his friends house. He was surprised to see that most of the electrical appliances at his house were functional. For example tube light and fan in all room, two TVs, computer, light of toilet & kitchen were switched on sohan told his friend that this is not the way to use electricity.
Now the question arises whether this habit of consuming electrical energy is acceptable or not. Will it not effect like economical condition of family as well as the nation how?
Chapter – 14 SOURCE OF ENERGY
Q No. 41 In a school, there are seventy teachers most of them come by their personal vehicle. Where as there are many teachers who come from the same place.
Is this practice of commuting to school will help nature. Justify it?
Q No. 42 During the natural disaster (Tsunami) at Japan, the nuclear reactors were damaged, due to which hazardous radiation affected the large area.

i. What will be the reason for this damage?
ii. How it affected the people and environment?
iii. Do you think that nuclear energy is good for nature?

Q No. 43 In a village people burn wood and cow dung as a fuel for basic necessity. In other nearby village, they have bio gas plant in which bio waste is used to prepare bio gas.
If we compare the situation of both village, which practice you will prefer the best and why?
Q No. 44 You would have seen at the roofs of the ministers house, hospital, hotels etc, solar panel for electricity and solar heater for hot water are placed. Now a days most of the people are preferring these methods.
Why they are preferring these types of method?
What kind of source of energy is used here?
How it will effect our environment.
Q No. 45 Conserving energy has become the need of the society & nature, be it in the transport house hold or industries. Energy conservation has been recognized as a national issue for long time.
As a responsible citizen of India, what steps would you take to conserve energy
Chapter – 15 OUR ENVIRONMENT
Q No. 46 It is often advised to stop our vehicles engine at red light and also to drive car / vehicles at constant speed.
Based on the above statement, answer the following question.
1. Which type of fuel is used in vehicles? Is it renewable or non renewable.
2. How can you contribute towards saving these fuels at your level?
Q No. 47 Number of vultures is decreasing remarkably. Now a days which is a matter of concern.
1. Vultures belong to which category of animal.
2. What is their role in nature to maintain ecological balance.
Q No. 48 Newspaper reports about the alarming increase in pesticides level in packed food items Some of states have even banned these food items.
1. What are the sources of these pesticides in these food items.
2. Name the biological phenomenon associated with accumulation of pesticide in the food chain.
Q No. 49 Ozone depletion / Ozone hole is a cause of concern now a days.

1. What are the causes of ozone depletion.
2. As students what steps will you advise to reduce ozone depletion.
Q No. 50 Acid rain is causing damage to monuments / Buildings etc. and also harm the flora and fauna.
1. What is the cause of acid rain.
2. What essential changes in our daily life can lie done to prevent acid rain / damage caused by acid rain.
Q No. 51 Plastic production is increasing day by day in spite of the fact that plastic is harmful for the environment.
Based on the above statement answer the following.
1. What are the harmful effects of plastic usage?
2. In our day to day situation what are the alternatives that we can use instead of plastics.

Chapter 16 Management of Natural Resources
Q No. 52 Chipko movement was stared in 1970s in a small village of Garhwal high up in Himalayas villagers stood against greedy contractors.
Women folk hugged the trees. The chipko – movement spread slowly to all nearby areas under the leadership of Shri Sunder Lal Bahuguna.
1. Do you feel inspired by this movement which prevented felling of trees.
2. Do you think that local people are real stake holders?
3. Which old belief has been challenged by chipko movement?
Q No. 53 There are certain N.G.Os which motivate the general public to donate clothes books toys, stationary items, utensils etc to them. There N.G.O.s further segregate and distribute these items to the needy.
In your opinion what objective / objectives are fulfilled by this initiative?
Q No. 54 Reena is a student of class X of a Govt. School she is a member of Eco club of her school.
What suggestions would like to give Reena to improve the environment in her school?
Q No. 55 Human population was less in early days. Men used to live in harmony with nature however, in present time tremendous growth of population and science & technology is resulting in fast depletion of natural resources.
1. Dont you think, it is high time that humans should realize that their own survival is in danger if they do not follow the path of sustainable development.
2. What are the ill effects of unsustainable development?
Q No. 56 My sister is in habit of keeping the tap open while brushing her teeth. She loves to bathe under shower. My neighbour uses hosepipe attached to drinking water supply pipe for washing his scooter & car.
According to me their way of handling the most precious source water is absolutely wrong.
1. Do you agree with me or not?
2. What changes in the above situation can be done to conserve water.
Q No. 57 Govt. of India has recently instituted an Amrita Devi Bishnoi National Award for wildlife conservation in the memory of Amrita Devi Bishnoi. Who sacrified her life along with 363 others for the protection of khejri trees near Jodhpur in Rajasthan. Based an the above statement answer the following question.
1. How trees are important to us?
2. How can you protect trees?
3. What is the significance of Van Mahotsava?

Q No. 58 Sneha and Sugandha are friends. Sneha belongs to a rich family and she believes in throwing and discarding the things after use while Sugandha does not like wastage and she reused the things. Based on above information answer the following questions :-
1. How reusing the things avoid wastage.
2. List any two examples where you can reuse the things.
3. What change can you make in your habits to become more Eco-friendly.
Q No. 59 Business is not only about accumulating wealth and glory. It is not about growth for the sake of size. It is about being a good corporate citizen and the admirer of the environment. How can you say that being a good citizen is more important than becoming a successful businessman? How can you become a good and responsible citizen?
Q No. 60 Water is one of our most precious commodities and no life can survive without it. It has been predicted that water scarcity will become the subject of “Wars” is the near future.
1. Write any two ways in which water is getting polluted?
2. Write any two measures to stop water pollution at your level?
Q No. 61 Tourism sector is a major source of income for Govt. To obtain more income the hills are being converted into tourist places where rest houses and resorts are made and millions of tourists visit those hills. They throw plastic covers, bottles and other litter there and destroy them. As a responsible citizen of the country what two precautions you would take while visiting tourist place.
Q No. 62 Human actions are leading to environmental problems. But we need not feel powerful or helpless as there are many things we can do to make a difference.
Keeping in view the above statement answer the following questions:-
1. What are the three Rs which can make a difference in our environment.
2. How can you contribute at your own level to save the environment. 

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