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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Latitude of the Arctic Circle?
2. The heat zone between the two tropics is the ______ zone.
3. A model of the Earth is called a ______.
4. Which heat zone gets the most heat?
5. Latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn?
6. Latitude of the Tropic of Cancer?
7. Lines drawn parallel to the Equator are called ______.
8. The Earth turns 15° of longitude in how much time?
9. Lines drawn from pole to pole are called ______.
10. The Prime Meridian (0°) passes through ______.

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Which animal’s tame form helped early farmers plough fields?
2. Mehrgarh is known as one of the earliest places where people began ______.
3. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.
4. Which Harappan city had a dockyard?
5. The Harappan cities grew along which river?
6. Where was the Great Bath found?
7. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?
8. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.
9. Have we been able to read the Harappan script?
10. Early humans got their food by ______ and ______.

Answer the questions.

1. Name a capital of Magadha.
2. Who founded the Mauryan Empire?
3. Where did the Buddha give his first sermon?
4. Who was Chandragupta’s adviser and wrote the Arthashastra?
5. Where did the Buddha attain enlightenment?
6. Who was the 24th tirthankara of the Jains?
7. The Vajji sangha was a ______, not ruled by one king.
8. Large kingdoms of ancient India were called ______.
9. Which mahajanapada became the most powerful?
10. Which war made Ashoka give up war?

Answer the questions.

1. Who heads a Municipal Corporation?
2. Which body looks after a big city?
3. All adults of a village together form the ______.
4. Who keeps the land records of a village?
5. Who heads the administration of a district?
6. A city is divided into areas called ______, each electing a councillor.
7. The head of a Gram Panchayat is the ______.
8. Who is in charge of a police station?
9. Name the three levels of the Panchayati Raj system.
10. Name a tax collected by a municipality.

Answer the questions.

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