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

Answer the questions.

1. What is the Earth’s natural satellite?
2. Why is the Earth called a unique planet?
3. Earth is the ______ planet from the Sun.
4. Which is the largest planet?
5. Celestial bodies that shine with their own light are called ______.
6. Pieces of rock that burn up when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere are ______.
7. How many planets are there in the solar system?
8. Saptarishi is part of which constellation?
9. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
10. Small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Name a capital of Magadha.
2. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
3. India’s national emblem is taken from the Lion Capital at ______.
4. Which war made Ashoka give up war?
5. Which mahajanapada became the most powerful?
6. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.
7. Where did the Buddha attain enlightenment?
8. Megasthenes came to the court of which ruler?
9. Who founded the Mauryan Empire?
10. Where did the Buddha give his first sermon?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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