Class: 6 Date:

Marks: 60 Time: 1½ hours

Social Science

Note: All the answers should be done on the Answer Sheet.

HISTORY

1. Answer the following questions briefly:

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1. What was man's first major discovery? Mention three of its uses?
2. What are habitation-cum-factory sites?
3. How did Palaeolithic people of the Deccan trap large animals?
4. What do Mesolithic paintings usually depict?
5. What kind of work did women, children and old people do in a Neolithic community?
6. What is a tribe? Mention one way in which we can draw conclusions about the lifestyle of Neolithic tribes.
7. Answer the following in 1-2 sentences:

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1. What were hand axes used for?
2. How many years did the Palaeolithic man survive for?
3. Who is a nomad?
4. What do you understand by domestication?
5. What are megaliths?
6. What made up a typical Neolithic village?
7. Answer the following in 1-2 words:

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1. Name the tools which were usually oval or pear shaped?
2. Where is Hunsgi situated?
3. Name a tribal group of India?
4. Where is Mehrgarh situated?
5. Name the first animal domesticated by man.
6. Name one Mesolithic site of India?

GEOGRAPHY

1. Answer the following briefly?

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1. What are political and physical maps?
2. What are conventional symbols? Draw symbols to depict a tank and a forest in a map?

Cont'd ---- 2/-

1. What is the importance of the 82½° E meridian in India?
2. When would the local time of a place A be ahead of the local time of a place B?
3. What information do you need to locate a place with respect to another?
4. How are meridians numbered?
5. Answer the following in 1-2 words:

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1. Where do we find maximum distortion on a world map?
2. Which direction will be to the right of the north line?
3. What would you need to build a school?
4. Name the longest latitude?
5. The world is divided into how many time zones?
6. Name the hottest heat zone of the earth?
7. Write two differences between maps, plans and sketches in a table format. (3)
8. Explain temperate and frigid zones? Draw a diagram showing all the heat zones? (5)

CIVICS

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1. Answer the following briefly:
2. What does apartheid mean? Who practiced apartheid and against whom?
3. Who were untouchables? How were they discriminated against?
4. At what levels do we have Government in India?
5. Describe monarchy or dictatorship?
6. Answer in 1-2 sentences:

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1. What is a Government?
2. What do you understand by Universal adult franchise?
3. Answer in 1-2 words:

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1. Which organ of the Government makes laws?
2. Who is the head of the state executive?
3. Name the South African leader who fought against apartheid?
4. Name the Indian leader who fought against social discrimination?
5. What do we call a set of rules by which a country is run?
6. In which year did the British women win the right to vote?
7. Write any three rights that our constitution gives us to preserve the diversity of social groups in our country?

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