Social Studies Questions and Answers - Grade 7 Opener Exams Term 1 2023 Set 3

QUESTIONS 30 MARKS

1. What are the three branches of social studies? (3mks)
2. Define the term entrepreneurship (1mk)
3. Name two skills that you acquire through dying social studies? (2mks)
4. Name two importance of social studies (2mks)
5. List two career opportunities related to social studies (2mks)
6. Identify two entrepreneurial opportunities for social studies. (3mks)
7. Define the term gender. (1mk)
8. Define the term stereotypes (1mk)
9. Identify one strategy of addressing gender stereotypes. (1mk)
10. Name the continent that neighbours Africa to the north east. (1mk)
11. Africa is located between latitudes ___________°N and _______________ °S  (2 mks)
    Study the map below and answer
    
12. Identify the country of Africa marked A (1mk)
13. Re-arrange letters below to form names of countries of Africa
    
    1. NIARTTAMAU   (1mk)
    2. YIBLA   (1mk)
14. What is a map? (1mk)
15. Name TWO types of maps. (2mks)
16. The time in Nairobi 36° East of the greenwhich meridian is 10 am. What will be the time in Cape Verde 17° W (3mks)
    (show your working)
17. Define the term solar system? (2mks)

MARKING SCHEME

1. History. Geography and Citizenship
2. Entrepreneurship is the activity of starting a business or taking a financial risk with the hope of making profit
3.  
   1. Analysis skills.
   2. Data collection skills.
   3. Presentation skills
4.  
   • Encourage learners to appreciate different cultures and values
   • Promotes rule of law (democracy)
   • Learners are able to utilize available resources
   • Prepares learners for different career pathways
   • Learners understand how a government is formed, its organization and how it works.
5. Teaching, Archeology, law, museology, cartography, Aviation, Meteorology
6.  
   1. Horticulture
   2. Dairy farming.
   3. Aquaculture or fishing. 
   4. Ecotourism
   5. Agro forestry
7. Gender is the state of being a male or a female in relation to social and cultural roles
8. Stereotypes are fixed assumptions/ ideas or images that expects an individual to behave in a particular way or manner
9.  
   1. treating both males and females equally
   2. Formulating policies that protect both males and females.
   3. Encouraging both males and females to venture in any available business opportunity or carcer.
   4. Encouraging reasonable representation of both genders in leadership
10. Asia
11. 37 degrees north and 35 degrees South.
12. Egypt
13.  
    1. Mauritania
    2. Libya
14. A map is a representation of the earth or part of the earth on a flat surface
15.  
    1. Sketch maps
    2. Topographical maps
    3. Atlas maps
16. 6:28 am
17. Solar system is the collection of the 8 planets, their moons, sun together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids and comets.