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

Answer the questions.

1. What is the Earth’s natural satellite?
2. About how long does sunlight take to reach the Earth?
3. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
4. Saptarishi is part of which constellation?
5. Small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are ______.
6. Pieces of rock that burn up when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere are ______.
7. Which planet is called Earth’s twin?
8. Celestial bodies that shine with their own light are called ______.
9. Which star shows the north direction?
10. Groups of stars that form patterns are called ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Which animal’s tame form helped early farmers plough fields?
2. About how old are the Harappan cities?
3. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.
4. Which Harappan city had a dockyard?
5. Where was the Great Bath found?
6. Have we been able to read the Harappan script?
7. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?
8. Bhimbetka, famous for rock shelters and paintings, is in which state?
9. The Harappan cities grew along which river?
10. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Where did the Buddha give his first sermon?
2. Megasthenes came to the court of which ruler?
3. Where did the Buddha attain enlightenment?
4. Which war made Ashoka give up war?
5. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
6. Name a capital of Magadha.
7. Who founded the Mauryan Empire?
8. Who was Chandragupta’s adviser and wrote the Arthashastra?
9. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.
10. Which mahajanapada became the most powerful?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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