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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Which heat zone gets the most heat?
2. The Equator is at ______ latitude.
3. The Prime Meridian (0°) passes through ______.
4. Lines drawn from pole to pole are called ______.
5. A model of the Earth is called a ______.
6. Latitude of the Arctic Circle?
7. The heat zone between the two tropics is the ______ zone.
8. How far ahead of Greenwich Mean Time is IST?
9. The imaginary line joining the North and South Poles is the ______.
10. The Earth turns 15° of longitude in how much time?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Which ocean is named after a country?
2. Which is the largest ocean?
3. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world?
4. About what part of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?
5. Which is the largest continent?
6. How many continents are there?
7. The narrow zone where land, water and air meet and life exists is the ______.
8. Which gas makes up most of the air?
9. A narrow strip of land joining two large landmasses is an ______.
10. The solid part of the Earth is the ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. What is the minimum age to vote in India?
2. All adults of a village together form the ______.
3. Who heads the administration of a district?
4. The head of a Gram Panchayat is the ______.
5. Name a tax collected by a municipality.
6. What does universal adult franchise mean?
7. Who heads a Municipal Corporation?
8. What is a democracy?
9. A city is divided into areas called ______, each electing a councillor.
10. Who keeps the land records of a village?

Answer the questions.

1. Who wrote “Vande Mataram”?
2. Ladakh is famous for which animal’s wool?
3. Treating a person unfairly because of who they are is called ______.
4. What is a stereotype?
5. Name a festival that is celebrated across India.
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 was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution?
10. Who wrote our national anthem?