CBSE Class 9 - History - Chapter 3 - Nazism and the Rise of Hitler (Very Short Q and A)(#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

 Nazism and the Rise of Hitler 

 (Very Short Q and A)

Q1: Why did Helmut’s father kill himself in the spring of 1945?

Answer: He feared revenge by the Allied Powers


Q2: What is referred to as Fascism in History?

Answer: Fascism was first propagated by Benito Mussolini. Under the Fascist system power of the state is vested in one person or a group of persons.


Q3: Why did the Nuremberg Tribunal sentence only 11 Nazis to death for such a massive genocide?

Answer: The Allies did not want to be harsh on defeated Germany as they had been after World War I

CBSE Class 9 - History - SOCIALISM IN EUROPE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION CONCEPTS THE AGE OF SOCIAL CHANGE (Very Short Q and A) (#cbsenotes) (#eduvictors)

SOCIALISM IN EUROPE AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION CONCEPTS THE AGE OF SOCIAL CHANGE 

(India and The Contemporary World - I)

(Very Short Q and A)

Q1: The people who wanted to put an immediate end to the existing governments in Europe(in 1815) were called ...

Answer: Revolutionaries

Q2: Who were radicals?

Answer: They wanted a nation which tolerated all religions. They argued for an elected Parliamentary government, subject to laws interpreted by a well-trained judiciary that was Independent of rulers and officials. They were not Democrats.

Q3: By the mid-19th century in Europe, the idea which attracted widespread attention on the restructuring of society was ________.

Answer: Socialism

Q4: Who was the ruler of Russia before October 1917 revolution?

Answer: Tsar Nicholas II.

Q5: Who conspired in Italy to bring about a revolution?

Answer: Giuseppe Mazzini

CBSE Class 9 - History - French Revolution - Legacy and Results of French Revolution (Q and A) (#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

Legacy and Results of French Revolution

Q1: What were the legacy and results of the French revolution?

Answer:

The French Revolution is one of the most important events in the history of the world. It marked the beginning of new era for people of France and those of the world.

The new ideas of Liberty equality and fraternity.

The revolution asserted the equality of man. It brought about the downfall of the autocratic regime in France. Other European kings had now realised that the time was approaching when the subjects also would assert their democratic rights.

Liberty equality and fraternity these words came as the source of light and want to a dead world.

A death blow to feudalism

The revolution brought an end to the feudal system in France. Old social based on the privileges of the novels and the clergyman cease to exist. It gave freedom to the bulk of the population - the peasants, the serfs and the agricultural labourers

CBSE class 10/9/8/7 - Social Science - Civics- Types of Government (#eduvictors)(#cbseNotes)

Know Different Types of Governments

Republic: 
A government whose authority is based on citizen’s votes ,which are represented by elected or nominated officials chosen in free election.

Democracy: 
Democracy means ‘rule of people’. The term today refers to political system in which the people or their elected representatives govern themselves.

Communism: 
As a system of government, commission is a system of government in which the states owns and operates industry on behalves of the people.

CBSE Class 9 - Economics - Poverty As A Challenge - Important Terms You Should Know (#cbseNotes)(#eduvictors)

Poverty As A Challenge
Important Terms You Should Know

Poverty:
It is a situation in which one is unable to get even the minimum basic necessities of life such as food , clothing , shelter for his/he'r sustenance.

Who are poor?
In our daily life we come across many poor people such as landless labourers in villages, people living in jhuggis, daily wage workers at construction sites, child labourers in dhabas, rickshaw-pullers, domestic servants, cobblers, beggars, etc.

Dimensions of Poverty:
  Poverty means hunger and lack of shelter, parents are unable to send their children to school, lack of clean surroundings lack of regular job and therefore, leads to helplessness.

Social indicators of poverty:
  Illiteracy , lack of general resistance due to malnutrition, inability to work, lack of access to health care and lack of jobs.

CBSE CLASS 9 - SOCIAL SCIENCE - WORKING OF INSTITUTIONS ( Q and A) (#cbseNotes)

SOCIAL SCIENCE - WORKING OF INSTITUTIONS

Q & A

Q1: What do you mean by the term institution? Why are they required?

Answer: Several arrangements are made in all modern democracies to perform  various tasks. Such arrangements are called institutions. Some of the tasks performed by these institutions are:

1.  To ensure security to the citizens and provide facilities for education and  health to all.

2.  To collect taxes and spend the money thus raised on administration, defence and development programmes.

3.  To formulate and implement several welfare schemes.

4.  To solve the disputes: if they arise on various decisions or on their  implementation.


A democracy works well when the various institutions perform functions assigned to them.

Q2: Which three institutions are responsible to run a democratic government in India? Mention their respective roles.

Answer: The three institutions responsible to run a democratic government in India are:

CBSE Class 9/10/NTSE/CTET - Important Rivers Of India (#cbseNotes)

Important Rivers Of India

CBSE Class 9 - Geography Notes

1. Ganga
States covered: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal
Length: 2,525 K.M.
Origin at: Gangotri
Ends at: Bay of Bengal


2. Yamuna
States covered: Uttarakhand,Himachal Pradesh,Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi
Length: 1,376 K.M.
Origin at: Garhwal in Yamunotri
Ends at: Bay of Bengal


3. Brahmaputra
States covered: Assam, Arunachal,Tibet
Length: 2,900 K.M.
Origin at: Lake Manasarovar
Ends at: Bay of Bengal

CBSE Class 9 - Social Science - Economics - People as a resource - Questions and Answers(#cbseNotes)

People as A Resource

Question Answers

Question 1: What do you understand by people as a resource?

Answer: People as a resource refers to a country is working for population in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities.

⒜ It is the human resource which converts all other resources like land, capital, natural resources etc. into useful products.

⒝ This human resource contributes to the creation of a gross national product(GNP).



Question 2: What is human capital formation?

Answer:
⒜ When the existing human resource is further developed by becoming more educated and healthy. It is termed as human capital formation.

⒝ It acts to the productive capacity of the country as educated, trained and healthy people earn higher incomes.

CBSE Class 9 - Social Science - Geography - Chapter Drainage (Q and A) (#cbseNotes)

Drainage (Q and A)

CBSE Class 9 - Geography Notes

Question: Name the four groups of river systems found in India?

Answer:

① Himalayan rivers,
② Deccan rivers,
③ Coastal rivers and
④ Rivers of the inland drainage basin.


Question: Distinguish between rivers of the North and South of India.

Answer:  See answer in this post (Drainage -Peninsular and Himalayan rivers.)

CBSE Class 9 - SA2 Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17)(#cbsepapers)

CBSE Class 9 - SA2 Social Science Sample Question Paper (2016-17)

CBSE Class 9 - Social Science Pre-SA2 Sample Question Paper (2016-17)

CBSE Class 9  - Social Science Pre-SA2 Sample Question Paper (2016-17)

CBSE Class IX - History - CHAPTER 4 - FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM (Q and A) (#cbseclass9Notes)

FOREST SOCIETY AND COLONIALISM

Questions and Answers based on NCERT Chapter


Q1: What is deforestation?

Answer: Deforestation is cutting down of trees indiscriminately in a forest area. Under the colonial rule it became very systematic and extensive.


Q2: Who were the colonial power in Indonesia?

Answer: Dutch


Q3: Why is deforestation considered harmful?

Answer: Forests give us many things like paper, wood that makes our desks, tables, doors and windows, dyes that colour our clothes, spices in our food, gum, honey, coffee, tea and rubber. They are the natural habitat of animals and birds. Forests check soil erosion and denudation, sand dunes. They preserve our ecological diversity and life support systems.
Cutting down forest extensive will deprive us the above said benefits. Thus deforestation is considered harmful.


Q4: Who were ‘Kalangs’ of Java?

Answer: They were skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators

CBSE Class 9 - Social Studies - Food Security In India (Q & A) - (#CBSENotes) (#CBSEClass9Notes)

Food Security Of India 

Q & A Based on Class 9 Chapter


Q 1: Why is food security essential?

Answer:
① When the country faces a disaster or calamity like earthquake, flood, drought, tsunami and there is a widespread failure of crops which causes famine, etc. All the sections of society have to face shortage of food. Hence, it is needed to ensure sufficient food.

Bengal Famine Of India
image source: wikiipedia

② A section of people in India still sleeps without food. They have no money to secure two square meals for their family members. Deaths due to starvation have also been reported. Thus food security is needed in a country to ensure food to all people at all times.


Q2: Name the year when a devastating famine occurred in India.

Answer: In 1943, famine of Bengal is the most devastated famine.




Q3: What is food security? What conditions should be fulfilled to ensure food security in a country like India?

OR

What are the dimensions of food security?

Answer: Food security does not mean to get two square meals only but something more than that. Thus, food security in a country is ensured only if the below said conditions are fulfilled.

CBSE Class 9 - Social Science - Population (Q and A) (#CBSEClass9Notes)

Population

Q & A based on NCERT Chapter

Part-2

Q1: Which one of the following states is the least populated state?

(a) Rajasthan

(b) Tripura

(c) Jammu and Kashmir

(d) Sikkim

Answer: (d) Sikkim

Q2: What are the primary concerns of population studies? Explain.

Answer: 

① Population size and distribution: How many people are there and where are they located.

② Population growth and process of population change: How has the population growth changed through time.

③ Characteristics or qualities of a population: What are their age, sex composition, literacy levels, occupational structure and health conditions.

CBSE Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) for classes IX & XI, 2017 is Available

Open Text Based Assessment (OTBA) 

For classes 

IX & XI  2017

Available Now

OTBA Material for Class 9 and Class 11 for this session (2016-2017) is available at CBSE website. Here are the links to download the pdfs.

Open Text Material for Class IX

Subject- English
Subject- Hindi
Mathematics - English - Hindi
Science - English - Hindi
Social Science - English - Hindi

CBSE Class 9 - Geography - Natural Vegetation and Wildlife (Q and A)

NATURAL VEGETATION AND WILDLIFE

Munnar Hills (Kerala)

Q & A based on Class 9 NCERT Chapter

Q1: Name the different types of vegetation identified in India.

Answer:  The following major types of vegetation may be identified in India.
 ⅰ Tropical Rain Forests
 ⅱ Tropical Deciduous Forests
 ⅲ Tropical Thorn Forests and Scrubs
 ⅳ Montane Forests
 ⅴ Mangrove Forests


Q2: Mention any three features of the tropical evergreen forests.

Answer:
① These forests are found in the areas of heavy rainfall, i.e., Western Ghats, the Island groups of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar, upper parts of Assam and Tamil Nadu coast.

②The trees in these forest reach great heights up to 60 metres or even above.

③ As such, these forests appear green all the year round. It is because there is no definite time for trees to shed their leaves.


Q3: Why is natural vegetation in large part of India no more natural?

CBSE Class 9 - Social Science- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016)

CBSE Class 9 - Social Science- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016) 

CBSE Class 9 - Economics - Food Security In India (Important Terms)

Food Security In India

Important Definitions and concepts

Q1: How does World Summit 1995 define 'Food Security'?


Answer: Food Security at he individual, household, regional, national and global levels exists when
all the people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food.



Q2: List the three A's Food security implies to?


Answer: Availability, accessibility and affordability of food of all times.



Q3: What is buffer stock?


Answer: It is the stock of food grains namely wheat and rice procured by government through Food Corporation of India.



Q4: Define Famine.

CBSE Class 9 - Geography - CH6 - Population (Q and A)

Population

Q & A based on NCERT Chapter

Q1: What are the three components of the study of population?

Answer:
  i.   Population size and distribution
  ii.  Population growth and purposes of population change.
  iii. Characteristics or qualities of the population


Q2: Define Population census.

Answer: It is the total process of collecting, compiling, analysing, or otherwise disseminating demographic economic and social data pertaining at a specific time of all persons in a country.



Q3: Which state has the lowest population?

Answer: Sikkim


Q4: What is meant by density of population?

Answer: The number of persons per sq. km is called density of population.



Q5: Which is the most populous state of India?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh

CBSE Class 9 - History - CH1 - French Revolution (Important Timelines)

French Revolution 

Important Timelines

French Revolution has been the important land mark in the history of democracy. Many historians mark it as the beginning of democracy foundation. The site eduvictors.com posted a timelines pictorial view for CBSE Class 9 examination perspective.


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