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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. The Earth turns 15° of longitude in how much time?
2. The heat zone between the two tropics is the ______ zone.
3. Which heat zone gets the most heat?
4. Indian Standard Time is based on which meridian?
5. Lines drawn parallel to the Equator are called ______.
6. Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?
7. The Equator is at ______ latitude.
8. How far ahead of Greenwich Mean Time is IST?
9. The Prime Meridian (0°) passes through ______.
10. Lines drawn from pole to pole are called ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.
2. About how old are the Harappan cities?
3. Mehrgarh is known as one of the earliest places where people began ______.
4. Which animal’s tame form helped early farmers plough fields?
5. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.
6. Why did early humans keep moving from place to place?
7. Where was the Great Bath found?
8. Which Harappan city had a dockyard?
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. Where did the Buddha give his first sermon?
3. The Vajji sangha was a ______, not ruled by one king.
4. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
5. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.
6. Which war made Ashoka give up war?
7. Name a capital of Magadha.
8. Who founded the Mauryan Empire?
9. Ashoka spread the message of ______ through his inscriptions.
10. India’s national emblem is taken from the Lion Capital at ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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