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

Answer the questions.

1. Which planet is called Earth’s twin?
2. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
3. Groups of stars that form patterns are called ______.
4. Which is the largest planet?
5. Saptarishi is part of which constellation?
6. How many planets are there in the solar system?
7. Which star shows the north direction?
8. What is the Earth’s natural satellite?
9. Small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter are ______.
10. About how many days does the Moon take to go once around the Earth?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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