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

Answer the questions.

1. Saptarishi is part of which constellation?
2. How many planets are there in the solar system?
3. Which star shows the north direction?
4. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
5. Celestial bodies that shine with their own light are called ______.
6. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
7. Groups of stars that form patterns are called ______.
8. What is the Earth’s natural satellite?
9. Which is the largest planet?
10. About how many days does the Moon take to go once around the Earth?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Which is the largest continent?
2. How many continents are there?
3. The solid part of the Earth is the ______.
4. Which is the smallest continent?
5. The water on the Earth makes up the ______.
6. About what part of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?
7. Which continent is covered with thick ice?
8. Which ocean is named after a country?
9. Which gas makes up most of the air?
10. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world?

Answer the questions.

1. Bhimbetka, famous for rock shelters and paintings, is in which state?
2. Have we been able to read the Harappan script?
3. Early humans got their food by ______ and ______.
4. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.
5. Where was the Great Bath found?
6. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.
7. About how old are the Harappan cities?
8. Why did early humans keep moving from place to place?
9. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?
10. The Harappan cities grew along which river?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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