KINGSWOOD WORLD SCHOOL

SCIENCE WORKSHEET
GRADE 6, CHAPTER 11

A. Short answer type questions.

1. a. Oscillation is the back and forth (to and fro) movement of a body in
a regular rhythm.
b. A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing
freely.
c. Speed is defined as the distance covered by a body in a unit time.
d. On the body of speedometer there is another device known

as odometer which records the total distance covered by

the vehicle.
2. The base unit for time is the ‘second’ abbreviated as ‘s’.

3. The answer is ‘d’. This time is taken as a unit to determine a

day of 24 hours with the change in date. “A day of 24 hours (a

unit) is taken as time from one midnight to another midnight
with the change in date.”
4. Speed is determined in the unit in which we measure the

distance covered and the unit in which time is noted.

Mathematically, speed is:
Distance travelled by an object/Time
taken to travel that distance Or s = d/t,
where s stands for speed; d for distance
and t for time.
5. a. Earth revolving around the Sun is an example of circular motion.

b. Earth rotating on its axis is an example of rotational motion.

c. The motion which repeats itself all the time at regular

interval is called periodic motion for example see-saw.

d. Motion of a pendulum also repeats at regular intervals so it is
periodic motion.
e. Train moving on a railway track is an example of linear motion.
6. a. The speedometer indicates the speed of the vehicle in motion.
b. On the body of speedometer there is another device known

as odometer which records the total distance covered by

 the vehicle.
c. Stopwatch is a device used to measure time taken for an event.
d. The sundial has a triangular rod or pin (called gnomon) fixed

vertically on a dial. In early days, people used it to tell the

time of the day, ascertained by the location and size of the
shadow of the rod on ground.
e. In early days people used hourglass to measure short time interval.
All the sand in upper bowl is so
fixed that it takes an hour to flow down into the lower bowl.
7. A second is a shorter and basic unit of time.
8. Pendulum clock is based on the principle that the time taken by a
pendulum to complete one oscillation is always the same.
9. All our activities depend on time. So we just need to measure time

B. Long answer type questions.

1. Once we measure the distance travelled by an object and the

time taken by it to travel that distance, it is easy to know how

slow or fast the object is moving. Slow motion or fast motion
of an object is termed as its speed.
The speed of an object is the distance travelled by it in a unit
time. Speed is determined in the unit in which we measure the
distance covered and the unit in which time is noted.
In a race, a boy runs to cover a distance of 100 m in 8 seconds. His
speed is 100m/8sec = 12.5m per
second.
2. a. A body is said to be in uniform motion if it travels equal

distances in equal intervals of time. The earth which is

moving around the sun is said to be in uniform motion. A
body is said to be in non- uniform motion if it covers
unequal distances in equal interval of time. A moving
vehicle covering a distance of 5 km in the first hour, 15 km
in the second hour and 10 km in the third hour, the motion
of the vehicle is said to be non-uniform.
b. There is an instrument fitted in vehicles like cars, buses,

trucks, motor cycles and trains called speedometer is fitted.

The speedometer indicates the speed of the vehicle in
 motion. On the body of speedometer there is another
device known as odometer which records the total distance
covered by the vehicle.
3. A body is said to be in uniform motion if it travels equal
distances in equal intervals of time. The hands of a clock move
in a uniform circular motion as they travel equal distance in
equal interval of time.
4. The odometer of the school bus reads 0325 at home and it
reads 0345 on reaching the school. So, the distance travelled
is 345 – 325 = 20 km
Time taken to travel 20 kilometres was 45 minutes.
Formula for average speed = Total distance
covered / Total time taken 20 km = 20000
m. covered in 45 min. = 45 × 60 = 2700 s
So, average speed= 20000/2700 = 200/27 = 7.407 m/s or simply 7.407
m/s.
Now, we have to calculate the speed per minute, so simply
multiply 7.407 × 60 = 444.42 metres per minute or 0.44442
km/minute.
Again, to calculate speed per hour, we multiply 444.42 × 60 =
26665.2 m or 26.665 km/h.
5. Students will do this on their own.
6. Average speed of the car is 45 km/h. The time taken by car to
reach Tirupati from Egmore is 8 hours. So the distance
travelled is d = s × t
D = 45 × 8 = 360 km
7. A graph includes two perpendicular
lines meeting at a common point
towards the left. This common point is
the initial value point. It is the origin of
the graph and is marked as ‘0’. From ‘0’
originates the perpendicular lines
which are termed as axis of the graph.
As you may notice in the figures given,
the horizontal axis is marked as X-axis
and the vertical axis as Y-axis. A graph
always represents interrelationship
between two factors. For example in
the study of motion, time and distance
are the two factors. An appropriate
scale is chosen on the graph to
represent the values of factors. On the
graph shown alongside ‘time’ is
depicted on horizontal axis, the X-axis,
and the distance is depicted on the
vertical axis, the Y-axis.