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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

1. Which is the largest continent?
2. The layer of air around the Earth is the ______.
3. Which gas makes up most of the air?
4. Which is the largest ocean?
5. Which is the highest mountain peak in the world?
6. Which ocean is named after a country?
7. The narrow zone where land, water and air meet and life exists is the ______.
8. About what part of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?
9. The solid part of the Earth is the ______.
10. Which is the smallest continent?

Answer the questions.

1. Early stone tools were made from stone, wood and ______.
2. Which animal’s tame form helped early farmers plough fields?
3. About how old are the Harappan cities?
4. Which is the oldest of the Vedas?
5. Which Harappan city had a dockyard?
6. Early humans got their food by ______ and ______.
7. Why did early humans keep moving from place to place?
8. Where was the Great Bath found?
9. The raised western part of a Harappan city is called the ______.
10. Have we been able to read the Harappan script?

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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

Answer the questions.

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