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SOCIAL SCIENCE Teacher’S Manual 6 CBSE QUESTION BANK SOCIAL SCIENCE TEACHER’S MANUAL FULL MARKS PVT LTD Educational Publishers 4238A/1, Ansari Road, Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 CONTENTS PART-A: HISTORY (OUR PASTS-I) 1. What, Where, How and When? 3 2. On the Trail of the Earliest People 5 3. From Gathering to Growing Food 9 4. In the Earliest Cities 12 5. What Books and Burials Tell Us 15 6. Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic 18 7. New Questions and Ideas 21 8. Ashoka, the Emperor Who Gave up War 26 9. Vital Villages, Thriving Towns 29 10. Traders, Kings and Pilgrims 33 11. New Empires and Kingdoms 37 12. Buildings, Paintings and Books 41 l Worksheets 1 to 12 45–57 PART-B: GEOGRAPHY (THE EARTH: OUR HABITAT) 1. The Earth In The Solar System 58 2. Globe: Latitudes and Longitudes 61 3. Motions of the Earth 65 4. Maps 69 5. Major Domains of the Earth 71 6. Major Landforms of the Earth 77 7. Our Country — India 82 8. India: Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife 86 l Worksheets 1 to 8 91–100 PART-C: CIVICS (SOCIAL & POLTICAL LIFE-I) 1. Understanding Diversity 101 2. Diversity and Discrimination 104 3. What is Government? 108 4. Key Elements of a Democratic Government 111 5. Panchayati Raj 114 6. Rural Administration 118 7. Urban Administration 121 8. Rural Livelihoods 124 9. Urban Livelihoods 127 l Worksheets 1 to 9 131–140 (ii) Part-A: HISTORY (OUR PASTS-I) Chapter 1 What, Where, How and When? FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Oral Questions Fill in the Blanks 1. Skilled gatherers were people 1. detectives 2. instruction who gathered their food. 3. Magadha 4. fish 2. Because although it is smaller 5. Inscriptions 6. movements than a continent, it is very large, and is separated from Rapid-Fire Questions the rest of Asia by seas, hills 1. Prakrit 2. Inscriptions and mountains. 3. The Iranians and the Greeks 3. Hills, mountains and seas. 4. The Rigveda 4. We use a script. 5. We use a language. 5. Sanskrit 6. Magadha 6. About 2500 years ago. 7. The north of the Vindhyas 7. The name Bharata was used 8. Livelihood for a group of people who Puzzle Time lived in north-west. 8. They are scholars who study 1. Palm leaf 2. Rigveda the past. 3. Kandahar 4. Magadha 9. Inscriptions are writings on 5. Christianity 6. Ganga relatively hard surfaces such 7. Tributary 8. Herders as stone or metal. 10. Palm leaves. 9. Sheep 10. Monastery SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT Multiple Choice Questions 3. hard 1. (b) rice 4. manuscripts; archaeology 2. (d) temples 5. Caravans 6. adventure 3. (a) palm leaves 7. Domino 8. languages 4. (d) all of the above True/False 5. (b) Before Christ 1. True 2. True 3. False 6. (b) they were formed of 4. False hills, mountains and seas Very Short Answer Type Questions Match the following 1. Water was easily available. (i)—(c) (ii)—(e) (iii)—(a) 2. They collected roots, fruits (iv)—(d) (v)—(b) and other forest produce for Fill in the Blanks their food. 1. birch 2. Prakrit 3. Wheat and barley. 3 4. Sheep, goats and cattle. 4. Merchants travelled with 5. Rice was first grown in the caravans or ships, carrying north of the Vindhyas. valuable goods from place 6. The Indus and its tributaries. to place. Religious teachers 7. On the banks of river Ganga walked from village to village, and its tributaries. town to town, stopping to 8. Magadha offer instruction and advice 9. In temples and monasteries. on the way. 10. Prakrit means languages used 5. Manuscripts are called so by ordinary people. because they were written by hand. 11. Sanskrit and Tamil. When people had to write a 12. So that people could see, real book in ancient time, they cut and obey them. palm leaves into pages and 13. To find tools, weapons, pots, tied them together to make pans, ornaments and coins. books. 14. To find out what people ate in the past. Long Answer Type Questions 15. Manu means hand and script 1. (i) How ancient people means letter or sign. wrote and what material. Short Answer Type Questions (ii) What religious practices and beliefs were followed. 1. Travelling in different parts of (iii) How ordinary people a place gives ancient people lived. an opportunity to meet new (iv) What the people ate. people and converse with 2. We have used the word ‘pasts’ them. This led to the sharing in plural to draw attention of ideas between people. to the fact that the past was 2. People travel today for many different for different groups of people. For example, the reasons. Three of them are: lives of herders or farmers i ( ) To study were different from those of (ii) To get employment kings and queens, the lives (iii) To get medical check up. of merchants were different 3. Two of the words we often from those of craftspersons, use for our country are India and so on. and Bharat. The word India 3. The books in the past dealt comes from the Indus, called with all kinds of subjects– Sindhu in Sanskrit and the religious beliefs and practices, name Bharat was used for a the lives of kings, medicine and science. group of people who lived in I would like to read about the the north-west. lives of the kings. 4 n Question Bank Social Science-VI Chapter On the Trail of the Earliest 2 People FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Oral Questions Fill in the Blanks 1. (i) Hunting animals 1. food 2. animal (ii) Gathering fruits, roots 3. seasonal 4. Vindhyas nuts, etc. 5. stone 6. Hunsgi 2. Gathering plant produce. True/False 3. To collect plant produce, 1. False 2. True 3. False hunter-gatherers needed to 4. False 5. True 6. True find out which plants or parts 7. False 8. True of plants were edible. 4. Perennial rivers and lakes Rapid-Fire Questions never get dry in any season. 1. Palaeolithic sites They have water throughout 2. (i) Stone on stone (ii) Pressure the year. flaking 5. Seasonal rivers get dry during 3. (i) Hallur (ii) Chirand winter and summer. 4. Stone, wood and bone 6. Early people travelled on foot. 5. Inamgaon 7. Stone, wood and bone. 6. Middle Stone Age 8. Bhimbetka is located in Puzzle Time present-day Madhya Pradesh. 9. Places where stone was found 1. Kurnool 2. Microliths and where people made tools 3. Hallur 4. Barley are known as factory sites. 5. Hides 6. Caves 10. Wheat, barley and rice. 7. Fishing 8. Bone SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT Multiple Choice Questions (iv)—(b) (v)—(d) 1. (a) grasslands developed Fill in the Blanks 2. (c) both (i) and (ii) 1. stone 2. water 3. (b) tiny 3. fire 4. caves 4. (a) 12,000 years ago 5. 12,000 6. limestone 5. (d) Kurnool caves 7. Hunsgi (b) leather 6. True/False Match the following 1. True 2. False 3. False (i)—(c) (ii)—(a) (iii)—(e) 4. True 5. True Teacher’s Manual n 5 Very Short Answer Type Questions for this reason. In fact, there 1. Tools made of stone lasted are many people who migrate long. to cities for getting higher 2. Spears and arrows. education, for establishing 3. Early people used wood for business, for entertainment, making huts and tools. etc. 4. Usually we find blocks of 2. There were two methods for stone, tools that were made making stone tools: and perhaps discarded (i) Stone on stone method: because they were not perfect, In this method, the pebble and chips of waste stone left from which the tool was behind at these sites. to be made was held in 5. Madhya Pradesh and Uttar one hand and another Pradesh (Southern). stone, which was used as 6. Animals move from place a hammer was held in the to place in search of smaller other hand. The second prey or in search of grass and stone was used to strike leaves. off flakes from the first, 7. The movements of animals till the required shape forced hunter-gatherers to was obtained. follow them. (ii) Pressure flaking: In this 8. Hunting animals and catching method, the core (pebble) fish and birds. was placed on a firm 9. The rock paintings are drawn surface. The hammer with great accuracy and skill. stone was used on a piece 10. Early man used fire to cook of bone or stone that was meat and to scare away placed on the core, to animals. They also used it as remove flakes that could a source of light. be shaped into tools. 11. We use knives for cutting 3. Archaeologists have found fruits. They are made of iron sites at places like Bhimbetka, and woods. Hunsgi, Kurnool caves, etc. These sites make it clear that Short Answer Type Questions hunter-gatherers lived there. 1. Hunter-gatherers travelled Hunter-gatherers lived in from place to place to satisfy many more places. Many sites their basic needs i.e. food and were located near sources water. Even today people of water, such as rivers and travel for this reason. We see lakes. Availability of good migration on a large scale. quality stone was also a major People living in rural areas or point that hunter-gatherers small towns and cities move to kept in mind while choosing urban or big towns and cities a place to live in. in search of better livelihood. 4. Three ways in which hunter- But not all people today travel gatherers used fire: 6 n Question Bank Social Science-VI (i) As a source of light.
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