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

Answer the questions.

1. Which star shows the north direction?
2. Small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are ______.
3. Pieces of rock that burn up when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere are ______.
4. Which planet is called Earth’s twin?
5. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
6. Saptarishi is part of which constellation?
7. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
8. How many planets are there in the solar system?
9. Celestial bodies that shine with their own light are called ______.
10. Groups of stars that form patterns are called ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Revolution and the tilt of the axis cause ______.
2. The circle that divides day from night on the globe is the ______.
3. On which date is the winter solstice (shortest day in India)?
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 many days does a leap year have?
8. How long does the Earth take to rotate once?
9. On which date is the summer solstice (longest day in India)?
10. How long does the Earth take to go once around the Sun?

Answer the questions.

1. Which gas makes up most of the air?
2. Which is the largest ocean?
3. Which continent is covered with thick ice?
4. The solid part of the Earth is the ______.
5. The narrow zone where land, water and air meet and life exists is the ______.
6. Which ocean is named after a country?
7. The layer of air around the Earth is the ______.
8. Which is the smallest continent?
9. About what part of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?
10. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Ashoka spread the message of ______ through his inscriptions.
2. The Vajji sangha was a ______, not ruled by one king.
3. Which war made Ashoka give up war?
4. Megasthenes came to the court of which ruler?
5. Who was Chandragupta’s adviser and wrote the Arthashastra?
6. Which mahajanapada became the most powerful?
7. Where did the Buddha give his first sermon?
8. Name a capital of Magadha.
9. Where did the Buddha attain enlightenment?
10. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Name the three levels of the Panchayati Raj system.
2. A city is divided into areas called ______, each electing a councillor.
3. Which body looks after a big city?
4. What does universal adult franchise mean?
5. Who keeps the land records of a village?
6. Who heads a Municipal Corporation?
7. What is the minimum age to vote in India?
8. Who is in charge of a police station?
9. Who heads the administration of a district?
10. What is a democracy?

Answer the questions.

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