Social science (SST) worksheets for Class 6 — with answers

Answer the questions.

1. About how many days does the Moon take to go once around the Earth?
2. Groups of stars that form patterns are called ______.
3. About how long does sunlight take to reach the Earth?
4. Why is the Earth called a unique planet?
5. How many planets are there in the solar system?
6. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
7. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
8. Small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are ______.
9. Which is the largest planet?
10. What is the Earth’s natural satellite?

Answer the questions.

1. The Earth turns 15° of longitude in how much time?
2. Indian Standard Time is based on which meridian?
3. Which heat zone gets the most heat?
4. Lines drawn from pole to pole are called ______.
5. A model of the Earth is called a ______.
6. The heat zone between the two tropics is the ______ zone.
7. Lines drawn parallel to the Equator are called ______.
8. The Equator is at ______ latitude.
9. Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?
10. How far ahead of Greenwich Mean Time is IST?

Answer the questions.

1. The circle that divides day from night on the globe is the ______.
2. On which date is the summer solstice (longest day in India)?
3. On which dates are day and night equal everywhere (equinoxes)?
4. The movement of the Earth around the Sun is called ______.
5. The spinning of the Earth on its axis is called ______.
6. How long does the Earth take to rotate once?
7. How many days does a leap year have?
8. On which date is the winter solstice (shortest day in India)?
9. The Earth’s axis is tilted at ______ to its orbital plane.
10. Revolution and the tilt of the axis cause ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Which is the smallest continent?
2. How many continents are there?
3. The layer of air around the Earth is the ______.
4. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world?
5. A narrow strip of land joining two large landmasses is an ______.
6. Which is the largest ocean?
7. Which is the largest continent?
8. The solid part of the Earth is the ______.
9. Which gas makes up most of the air?
10. The water on the Earth makes up the ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Bhimbetka, famous for rock shelters and paintings, is in which state?
2. The Harappan cities grew along which river?
3. Which animal’s tame form helped early farmers plough fields?
4. Why did early humans keep moving from place to place?
5. Early humans got their food by ______ and ______.
6. Mehrgarh is known as one of the earliest places where people began ______.
7. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?
8. About how old are the Harappan cities?
9. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.
10. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Who founded the Mauryan Empire?
2. The Vajji sangha was a ______, not ruled by one king.
3. India’s national emblem is taken from the Lion Capital at ______.
4. Megasthenes came to the court of which ruler?
5. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
6. Name a capital of Magadha.
7. Who was Chandragupta’s adviser and wrote the Arthashastra?
8. Where did the Buddha attain enlightenment?
9. Which mahajanapada became the most powerful?
10. Ashoka spread the message of ______ through his inscriptions.

Answer the questions.

1. Which body looks after a big city?
2. Who heads the administration of a district?
3. What is a democracy?
4. Name the three levels of the Panchayati Raj system.
5. The head of a Gram Panchayat is the ______.
6. What does universal adult franchise mean?
7. Who heads a Municipal Corporation?
8. All adults of a village together form the ______.
9. Who is in charge of a police station?
10. Who keeps the land records of a village?

Answer the questions.

1. Treating a person unfairly because of who they are is called ______.
2. Ladakh is famous for which animal’s wool?
3. Who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution?
4. Who wrote our national anthem?
5. How many languages are listed in the Indian Constitution?
6. Kerala is famous for which trade in the past?
7. Name two ways in which people in India are different.
8. India is called a land of “unity in ______”.
9. Who wrote “Vande Mataram”?
10. What is prejudice?