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

Answer the questions.

1. Why is the Earth called a unique planet?
2. About how many days does the Moon take to go once around the Earth?
3. Groups of stars that form patterns are called ______.
4. Which is the largest planet?
5. Which planet is called Earth’s twin?
6. Pieces of rock that burn up when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere are ______.
7. Saptarishi is part of which constellation?
8. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
9. Small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are ______.
10. Which planet is closest to the Sun?

Answer the questions.

1. Which heat zone gets the most heat?
2. Lines drawn parallel to the Equator are called ______.
3. How far ahead of Greenwich Mean Time is IST?
4. The Equator is at ______ latitude.
5. Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?
6. A model of the Earth is called a ______.
7. The Prime Meridian (0°) passes through ______.
8. The heat zone between the two tropics is the ______ zone.
9. The imaginary line joining the North and South Poles is the ______.
10. Indian Standard Time is based on which meridian?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Early humans got their food by ______ and ______.
2. Mehrgarh is known as one of the earliest places where people began ______.
3. Have we been able to read the Harappan script?
4. Which animal’s tame form helped early farmers plough fields?
5. Where was the Great Bath found?
6. Which Harappan city had a dockyard?
7. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.
8. The Harappan cities grew along which river?
9. Why did early humans keep moving from place to place?
10. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Which war made Ashoka give up war?
2. Which mahajanapada became the most powerful?
3. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
4. Who was Chandragupta’s adviser and wrote the Arthashastra?
5. India’s national emblem is taken from the Lion Capital at ______.
6. The Vajji sangha was a ______, not ruled by one king.
7. Who founded the Mauryan Empire?
8. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.
9. Megasthenes came to the court of which ruler?
10. Ashoka spread the message of ______ through his inscriptions.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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