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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Latitude of the Arctic Circle?
2. The Earth turns 15° of longitude in how much time?
3. How far ahead of Greenwich Mean Time is IST?
4. Which heat zone gets the most heat?
5. A model of the Earth is called a ______.
6. The Equator is at ______ latitude.
7. Latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn?
8. Lines drawn parallel to the Equator are called ______.
9. The imaginary line joining the North and South Poles is the ______.
10. Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. The water on the Earth makes up the ______.
2. Which continent is covered with thick ice?
3. Which is the smallest continent?
4. Which ocean is named after a country?
5. The narrow zone where land, water and air meet and life exists is the ______.
6. The layer of air around the Earth is the ______.
7. Which gas makes up most of the air?
8. Which is the largest continent?
9. A narrow strip of land joining two large landmasses is an ______.
10. Which is the largest ocean?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
2. Which mahajanapada became the most powerful?
3. Who was Chandragupta’s adviser and wrote the Arthashastra?
4. Name a capital of Magadha.
5. Where did the Buddha give his first sermon?
6. Which war made Ashoka give up war?
7. Where did the Buddha attain enlightenment?
8. Megasthenes came to the court of which ruler?
9. Ashoka spread the message of ______ through his inscriptions.
10. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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