Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) Class 8 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Social Science

Fill in the blanks:  
(a) The British saw overcrowded spaces as ______________.  
(b) In 1888 an extension scheme called the ___________ was devised.

Complete the sentences below using some of the following words.

sparsely, favourable, fallow, artificial, fertile, natural, extreme, densely

When people are attracted to an area it becomes ___________ populated. Factors that influence this include _________ climate; good supplies of ____________ resources and _____________ land.

Tick the correct answer.
Which does the term population distribution refer to?

State whether true or false:
Mahatma Gandhi thought that promotion of literacy was the most important aim of education.

Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?

Why did Mahatma Gandhi think that English education had enslaved Indians?

Point out which of the following were brought in with British art:
(a) oil painting (b) miniatures (c) life-size portrait painting (d) use of perspective (e) mural art

Why did the scroll painters and potters come to Kalighat? Why did they begin to paint new themes?

Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?

Why did Gandhiji choose to break the salt law?

Fill in the blanks.
The death of ___________ sparked off such violent protests that the government was forced to give in to the demand for the linguistic state of Andhra.

After Independence, why was there a reluctance to divide the country on linguistic lines?

Keeping the Sudha Goel case in mind, tick the sentences that are true and correct the ones that are false.

They went to the High Court after the supreme Court had given its decision.

Keeping the Sudha Goel case in mind, tick the sentences that are true and correct the ones that are false.

If they do not like the Supreme Court verdict, the accused can go back again to the Trial Court.

Why do you think the introduction of Public interest Litigation (PIL) in the 1980s is a significant step in ensuring access to justice for all?

Make sentences with each of the glossary words given on the next page.

In a town called Peace Land, the supporters of the Fiesta football team learn that the supporters of the Jubilee football team in the nearby city about 40 km away have damaged the ground on which the Final between both teams is to be held the following day. A crowd of Fiesta fans armed with deadly weapons attacks the homes of the supporters of the Jubilee football team in the town. In the attack, 10 men are killed, 5 women are gravely hurt, many homes are destroyed and over 50 people injured.
Imagine that you and your classmates are now part of the criminal justice system. First divide the class into the following four groups of persons:
1.Judge
The column on the right provides a list of functions. Match these with the roles that are listed on the left. Have each group pick the functions that it needs to perform to bring justice to those who were affected by the violence of the Fiesta fans. In what order, will these functions be performed?

Now take the same situation but ask one student who is a supporter of the Fiesta Club to perform all the functions listed above. Do you think the victims would get justice if only one person performed all of the functions of the criminal justice system? Why not?

State two reasons why you believe that different persons need to play different roles as part of the criminal justice system.

In the storyboard you read about how Helen hopes to make a movie on the Adivasi story. Can you help her by developing a short story on adivasis? 

Re-read the story on Rathnam as well as the provisions of the 1989 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Now list one reason why you think he used this law to file a complaint.

Why do Adivasi activists, including C.K. Janu, believe that Adivasis can also use this 1989 Act to fight against dispossession? Is there anything specific in the provisions of the Act that allows her to believe this?