Maharashtra (MSBSHSE) Board Question Paper Class 10 Science

Listed below are the units and topics of the Science subject:

1) Materials: 

• Acids and Bases: Acids, Bases and Salts and their General Properties, Examples and Uses 

• Chemical Reactions and Their Types 

• Oxidation and Reduction 

• Metals and Non-metals, Metallurgical processes, Properties of Common Metals, Chemical Bonding. 

• Carbon Compounds, Saturated Hydrocarbons, Alcohols, Carboxylic Acids and their Properties. 

• Daily Life Used Chemicals

• Classification of Elements, Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, Gradation of Properties. 

2) The World Of The Living:

• Life Processes: Definition of “Living Things”, Basic concept of nutrition, respiration, Transport, and excretion in plants and animals.

• Control In the Living: Tropic movements in plants, Introduction to plant hormones, control and coordination in animals, voluntary, involuntary and reflex actions, nervous system, chemical coordination, animal hormones.

• Reproduction in the living: Reproduction in plants and animals. Need for methods of family planning Safe Sex vs – HIV/ Aids, Childbearing and women’s health.

• Heredity and Evolution: Heredity, the origin of life- a brief introduction, Basic concepts of evolution.

3) Moving Things People And Ideas:

• Electric circuits:- Potential and potential differences. Ohm’s Law, Resistance in series and parallel, Power dissipated due to current, inner relation between P, V, I and R.

• Magnets: Magnetic fields, Field lines, Field due to current-carrying wire coil and solenoid force on the current-carrying. Fleming’s left-hand rule, electric motor, Electromagnetic induction, Induced potential differences, Induced Current, Electric Generator principle and working.

• Direct and Alternating current. Frequency of AC. Advantages of AC over DC. Domestic Electric Circuits.

4) Natural Phenomena:

• Light: Convergence and Divergence of light.

• Spherical Mirrors: Images formed by a concave mirror, related concepts of centre of curvature, principal axis, optical centre, focus, focal length.

• Refraction- Appreciation of the concept of refraction, Laws of refraction, the velocity of light, Refractive index- the twinkling of stars dispersion of light scattering of light.

• Lenses:- Images formed by a convex lens, Function of the lens, Human problem of vision and its solution.

5) Pollution:

• Types Of pollution- air, water(fresh and marine), soil, radiation and noise

• Sources of pollution and major pollutants, Oil Spills

• Effects of Pollution- Environment, Human Health, and other organisms,

• Abatement of pollution

• striving for a better environment

• Use of efficient and eco-friendly technology

• Sustainable use of resources

• Enforcement of acts, laws and policies.