Social Studies & Religion Questions and Answers - Grade 7 End Term 1 Exams 2023 Set 1

SOCIAL STUDIES

1. The study of human origin and their interrelations, environment, systems of government and economic activities is called (1mark)
2. What are the three branches of Social Studies? (3 marks)
3. Explain three importance of studying Social Studies. (3 marks)
4. Identify career opportunity shown below and explain how it is related to Social Studies in Kenya and globally. (1 mark)
   
5. Mention the categories that the following careers are grouped. (3 marks)
   

   Careers	Category
   Librarian, Lawyer, administrator
   Game ranger, cartographer, Geography teacher, meteorologist
   History teacher, curator, archaeologist

6. Murangiri has opened a law firm to provide legal services to the people. Studying law at the university enabled him understand legal matters very well. (2 marks)
   1. Which career did he pursue at the university?
   2. How did the study of Social Studies help him to realise the entrepreneurial opportunity?
7. Maggie offers online history classes to willing learners during holiday. What career do you think she pursued at the tertiary level? (1mark)
8. What is gender ping?
9. Explain three strategies of addressing gender stereotypes. (3 marks)
10. Grade 7 learners discussed and wrote the following rules to discourage gender stereotypes. Write true if you agree or false if you disagree. (5 marks)
    

    Statement	True	False
    We should share class responsibilities.
    Our views and opinions on gender roles should not be biased.
    We should participate in activities that equally value all genders.
    We should encourage positive and healthy among all genders.
    We should involve in activities that show bad perception about opposite gender.

11. What is the meaning of the following? (2 marks)
    1. A map
    2. Continent
12. Africa is the _____________________ continent in the world. (1 mark)
13. What separates Africa from other continents?  (1 mark)
14. Africa is one of the _________________________ in the world. (1 mark)
15. Africa is approximately 30, 370, 000 km2. (True or False). _____________________(1 mark) 
16. Write true or false in the following statements about the position of Africa. (7 marks)
    1. Africa lies to the West of the Indian Ocean.
    2. Africa lies to the East of the Atlantic Ocean.
    3. Africa lies to the East of South America.
    4. Africa lies to the West of Asia and Australia.
    5. Africa lies to the South of Europe.
    6. Africa lies to the South of the Mediterranean Sea.
    7. Africa lies to the North of Antarctica.
17. Study the globe below and answer questions that follow. (4 marks)
    
    The Southern part of Africa is _____________________ than the Northern part. (1 mark)
18. Africa lies between _______________________37° N, 35° S and _________________ 18° W and 52° E. (2marks)
19. Africa has _________________________countries which are recognised as sovereign nations. (1 mark)
20. African continent is divided into 5 regions. Which are they? (5 marks)
21. Name two countries in West African region. (2 marks)
22. Study the map below and explain the position of Kigali and Accra using latitudes and longitudes. (1 mark)
    

CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

1. Who is a Christian? (2 marks)
2. Explain the meaning of Christian Religious Education? (2 marks)
3. State four importance of studying Christian Religious Education. (4 marks)
4. Write 4 morals that we learn in Christian Religious Education. (4 marks)
5. Outline 4 values you can acquire through the study of Christian Religious Education. (4 marks)
6. What is creation? (2 marks)
7. Identify the following features of creation. (4 marks)
   
8. What is the meaning of an account of creation? (2 marks)
9. How many biblical accounts of creation do we have? (2 marks)
10. Who created the universe? (1 mark)
11. Name 2 qualities of God that are portrayed in the accounts of creation. (2 marks)
12. Outline 2 similarities between the first and the second account of creation. (2 marks)
13. Describe the nature of the earth at the beginning of creation. (2 marks)
14. What did God use to create the universe? (2 marks)
15. State 2 differences between the first and the second biblical accounts of creation. (2 marks)
16. What is good stewardship? (2 marks)
17. Name 4 ways to show good stewardship of God's creation (4 marks)
18. Describe 3 responsibilities given to human beings by God over plants. (3 marks)
19. State 2 ways of taking care of plants. (2 marks)
20. Name 2 responsibilities that God gave to human beings over animals, fish and birds after creation. (2 marks)

ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

1. What is the meaning of lailatul Qadr? (2 marks)
2. Which cave is associated with the revelation of the Quran? (2 marks)
3. Explain the feelings of the prophet (S.A.W.) during his first encounter with Angel Jibril? (4 marks)
4. For how long was the Quran revealed to the prophet (S.A.W.) while in Madina? (2 marks)
5. Which was the key message in the first revelation? (3 marks)
6. Which form of hadith deals with what the prophet said? (2 marks)
7. Explain the meaning of Isnad. (3 marks)
8. The subject matter of hadith is referred to as (2 marks)
9. What should a good friend remind you of? (4 marks)
10. Jamal a grade 7 learner believes in only one God. This act is referred to as (2 marks)
11. Madzengo worships a huge snake that she keeps in her house. This type of shirk is classified as (2 marks)__
12. How many ways can major shirk be identified? (4marks)
13. Swalih shows signs of being distant from Allah (S.W.T.). He also looks like a coward. These are some of the signs of (2 marks)
14. A prayer that is performed in jamaa is referred to as (2 marks)
15. Mwanarusi's mother wakes up every night to perform a certain sunnah prayer. What is the male name of this prayer? (2 marks)
16. During what time of the day is swalatul Eid performed? (2 marks)
17. The following are characteristics of a certain prayer;
    1. It has neither adhan nor Iqama. 
    2. It is done in a standing position. 
    3. It has neither Rukuu nor Sujud.
       Which prayer has the above characteristics? (2 marks)
18. Mention any two difference between zakatul maal and zakatul fitr (4 marks)
19. The minimum amount payable for zakat is known as (2 marks)
20. The sunnah saum that involves the making of a vow is known as (2 marks)

MARKING SCHEME

SOCIAL STUDIES

1. social studies
2.  
   1. Citizenship
   2. History
   3. Geography
3.  
   1. It makes us educated and responsible citizen.
   2. It is a pathway to different career opportunities.
   3. We become aware of our rights and those of others.
4. lawyer, assess
5. Citizenship, Geography, History 
6.  
   1. Lawyer
   2. He understands legal matters well.
7. teacher
8. It is generalising views about gender attributes, differences and roles of Individuals that are false.
9.  
   1. Males and females should respect each other regardless of their career and entrepreneurial choices.
   2. We should respect two-thirds gender rule in leadership positions as stated in the Constitution of Kenya.
   3. Boys and girls have equal chances in career choices.
10. (all true) assess
11. It is a representation of an area of land on a sheet a paper (assess)
12. second
13. water bodies
14. continents
15. True
16. all true
17. narrower
18. (latitudes, longitudes)
19. 54
20. assess
21. examples are Mali and Togo
22. Accra - 0°
    Kigall (30°E, 0°)

CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. 

1. A person who belleves in the teaching of Jesus Christ and follows the Christian teachings.
2. It is a learning area that imparts Christian knowledge, morals, values and teachings into Christians.
3.  
   1. It inculcates sound Christian morals that enable one to live well with other members of the society.
   2. One la able to understand themselves
   3. One is able to acquire interpersonal skills
   4. Christians learn the origin of sin. This in turn opens up their minds to the genesis of immorality and the desire to avoid the vice, assess
4. Empathy, forgiveness, faimess,
5. Respect, Integrity, kindness, love.
6. The act or process of bringing something to existence. (Assess)
7. A-Mountain
   B-Forest
   C-Wild animals
   D-Stars, sky
8. It is a narration of how creation took place. Assess any other
9. Two (2)
10. God
11. God is orderly. God is powerful.
12.  
    1. In both, God is portrayed as the sole creator
    2. In both, man is portrayed as a special creature; Man was created in God's Image and likeness and there was nothing else created in that way. Assess any other relevant
13. In the beginning, the earth was formless and empty, there was nothing in It.
    Darkness covered the whole surface of the earth. The spirit was hovering over the waters. Assess
14. God used a word of mouth to create the universe.
15.  
    1. The creation of the firmament, the sun, the moon, stars, fish and creeping animals is only mentioned in the first account of creation.
    2. it is only mentioned in the second account of creation. Assess
16. It refers to the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care.
17.  
    1. Controlling pollution
    2. Planting trees
    3. Taking care of domestic animals
    4. Avoiding poaching of wild animals
18.  
    1. Using plants for economic growth
    2. Using plants to obtain food
    3. Making use of plants for herbal-medicine
    4. Planting and taking care of plants
19.  
    1. Weeding.
    2. Pruning
20.  
    1. Condemning poaching
    2. Controlling overfishing

ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

1. The night of power
2. Cave Hirah
3. He was afraid/ frightened
4. 10 years
5. Importance of knowledge
6. Qaul
7. The chain of transmitters
8. Matn
9. Worshipping Allah (S.W.T)
10. Tawheed
11. Shirkul-Akbar
12. Four ways
13. A mushrik or a person who commits -shirk
14. Congregational prayers
15. Tahajud
16. In the moming after sunrise
17. Janaza
18. Zakatul maal cleans the wealth while zakatul fer cleans the fast
19. Nisab
20. Nadhir