Niscort Father Agnel School, Vaishali

Social Science

Class VI – Practice Worksheet

Topics Covered –

History Ch. 1 - Introduction: What, Where, How and When?

Geography Ch. 1 - The Earth in The Solar System

Civics Ch. 1 - Understanding Diversity

Answer the following questions –

1. Name the animals first reared by the people. (1)

2. Where and when did the earliest cities flourish? (2)
3. Read the following extract and answer the following questions –
Hills, mountains and seas form the natural frontiers of the subcontinent. While it was difficult to cross
these frontiers, those who wanted could and did scale the mountains and cross the seas. People from
across the frontiers also came into the subcontinent and settled here. These movements of people
enriched our cultural traditions. People have shared new ways of carving stone, composing music, and
even cooking food over several hundreds of years.
3.1. Why did the people travel in the past? (2)
3.2. What difficulties did the people face while travelling? (1)
3.3. What did the movement of the people result in? (any one) (1)
4. What is a full moon? (1)
5. Light travels at the speed of about __________________ per second. The light of the sun takes about
__________ minutes to reach the earth. (2)
6. _______________ was the first man to step on the surface of the moon on 20 July 1969. (1)
7. What are meteoroids? What happens to them when they reach the Earth? (1+2=3)
8. What is diversity? Give any one example. (2)
9. How does inequality arise? Give one example of inequality. (2)
10. ‘The influence of diverse cultures is not merely a thing of the past.’ Justify the statement with any two
valid examples. (2)

(Work to be done in Social Science Revision Notebook)