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

Answer the questions.

1. Which star shows the north direction?
2. How many planets are there in the solar system?
3. Why is the Earth called a unique planet?
4. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
5. Groups of stars that form patterns are called ______.
6. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
7. Small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are ______.
8. Pieces of rock that burn up when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere are ______.
9. About how many days does the Moon take to go once around the Earth?
10. What is the Earth’s natural satellite?

Answer the questions.

1. The Prime Meridian (0°) passes through ______.
2. Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?
3. The Equator is at ______ latitude.
4. The imaginary line joining the North and South Poles is the ______.
5. A model of the Earth is called a ______.
6. Latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn?
7. How far ahead of Greenwich Mean Time is IST?
8. The Earth turns 15° of longitude in how much time?
9. Indian Standard Time is based on which meridian?
10. Lines drawn from pole to pole are called ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?
2. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.
3. Mehrgarh is known as one of the earliest places where people began ______.
4. About how old are the Harappan cities?
5. Why did early humans keep moving from place to place?
6. Early humans got their food by ______ and ______.
7. Have we been able to read the Harappan script?
8. Bhimbetka, famous for rock shelters and paintings, is in which state?
9. Which Harappan city had a dockyard?
10. The Harappan cities grew along which river?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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