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🌎IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR BOARD EXAM OF 10TH CLASS

The Making of Earth 

Q. 1. What are planets ?

Ans. Planets are heavenly objects like the earth, mars, venus, jupiter etc that move round the sun.

Q. 2. Define solar system.

Ans. Solar means belonging to the sun. The earth and other planets belong to the sun. They were once parts of the sun. The sun, its planets and their satellites are known as the solar system.

Q. 3. How can you distinguish between planets and stars? 

Ans. Stars twinkle at night while planets do not twinkle. Planets are really quite tiny. They look bigger because they are nearer to us than stars.

Q. 4. Why do the stars twinkle ?

Ans. The stars, like the sun, are balls of fire. As their rays pass through the different layers of the atmosphere, they seem to be twinkling.

Q. 5. How was the earth formed ?

Ans. The earth was once a part of the sun. It broke away from the sun. It was as hot and burning as the sun at that time. After millions of years the earth cooled down and life appeared on its surface and in its seas.

Q. 6. How were oceans and seas formed ?

Ans. When the earth cooled down, water vapours appeared on it. They rise in the sky and came down in the shape of rain. This rain filled hollows on the earth. These hollows became seas and oceans.

The Rule of Road

Q. 7 Why was the stout old lady walking down the middle of a road?

Ans. The stout old lady was very particular about exercising the freedom to do anything. She was walking down the middle of the the it was her right to do so.

Q. 8  How was old lady  mistaken about liberty?

Ans. She was destroying other people's liberties while aggerssively upholding her personal liberty. She never realised that others to certain rights.

Q. 9  What does the policeman at Piccadilly Circus symbolise?

Ans. The policeman at Piccadilly Circus symbolises liberty and not tyranny.

Q. 10  Can we do whatever we feel like doing ? 

Ans. No, justice demands that freedom should not be used of misused. In a civilised society exercising unlimited freedom has no place.

Q. 11  What was the writer reading during the journey?

Ans. The author was reading a Blue-book during his train journey

Q. 12  Why did the writer of 'The Rule of the Road' need a reasonable silence in the compartment ?

Ans. He was reading a Blue-book. He needed a reasonable silence to understand what he was reading. The new passenger disturbed him with his loud talking

Q. 13  Who disturbed the author in the train?

Ans. A fellow passenger disturbed him. He was an intruder. He talked in voice so loud that the author could not read his book.

Q. 14  What was the intruding passenger talking of ?

Ans. He was talking of his family history, his son's exploits in war time and the mistakes of military commanders.

Q. 16  What is the basis of social contact ?

Ans. Social contact among civilised persons does not permit any kind of disturbance, inconvenience of harm to other people by any action of an Individual

Q. 17  "We should be judicious mixture of both." What does the

writer mean by his statement ?

Ans. What we ourselves do, we must allow others to do the same thing. Exercise of one's rights is not one way is Other people also have rights. These must not be snatched from them.