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

Answer the questions.

1. Which planet is called Earth’s twin?
2. Why is the Earth called a unique planet?
3. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
4. Which star shows the north direction?
5. About how many days does the Moon take to go once around the Earth?
6. How many planets are there in the solar system?
7. Saptarishi is part of which constellation?
8. About how long does sunlight take to reach the Earth?
9. Pieces of rock that burn up when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere are ______.
10. Celestial bodies that shine with their own light are called ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Which heat zone gets the most heat?
2. The Equator is at ______ latitude.
3. How far ahead of Greenwich Mean Time is IST?
4. Latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn?
5. Lines drawn parallel to the Equator are called ______.
6. Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?
7. Lines drawn from pole to pole are called ______.
8. Latitude of the Arctic Circle?
9. The imaginary line joining the North and South Poles is the ______.
10. The heat zone between the two tropics is the ______ zone.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. The water on the Earth makes up the ______.
2. The layer of air around the Earth is the ______.
3. Which continent is covered with thick ice?
4. Which is the largest ocean?
5. The solid part of the Earth is the ______.
6. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world?
7. How many continents are there?
8. The narrow zone where land, water and air meet and life exists is the ______.
9. Which is the largest continent?
10. Which gas makes up most of the air?

Answer the questions.

1. Where was the Great Bath found?
2. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.
3. The Harappan cities grew along which river?
4. Mehrgarh is known as one of the earliest places where people began ______.
5. Bhimbetka, famous for rock shelters and paintings, is in which state?
6. Why did early humans keep moving from place to place?
7. Which Harappan city had a dockyard?
8. Early humans got their food by ______ and ______.
9. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.
10. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?

Answer the questions.

1. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.
2. Name a capital of Magadha.
3. Where did the Buddha give his first sermon?
4. Which war made Ashoka give up war?
5. Who was Chandragupta’s adviser and wrote the Arthashastra?
6. The Vajji sangha was a ______, not ruled by one king.
7. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
8. Megasthenes came to the court of which ruler?
9. Ashoka spread the message of ______ through his inscriptions.
10. Who founded the Mauryan Empire?

Answer the questions.

1. What does universal adult franchise mean?
2. Name a tax collected by a municipality.
3. Who heads the administration of a district?
4. Who is in charge of a police station?
5. Which body looks after a big city?
6. A city is divided into areas called ______, each electing a councillor.
7. All adults of a village together form the ______.
8. What is the minimum age to vote in India?
9. Who heads a Municipal Corporation?
10. What is a democracy?

Answer the questions.

1. What is a stereotype?
2. What is prejudice?
3. How many languages are listed in the Indian Constitution?
4. Who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution?
5. Name two ways in which people in India are different.
6. Kerala is famous for which trade in the past?
7. Who wrote “Vande Mataram”?
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 ______”.