Worksheets6th Grade Social Studies
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the Nation's Capital?
a)
Texas
b)
Austin
c)
Washington D.C.
d)
United States of America
2.
Which is not an Element on a map?
a)
Title
b)
Legend (key)
c)
Inset Map
d)
Political Map
3.
What country(ies) borders the United States?
a)
Canada and Mexico
b)
New Mexico
c)
Mexico
d)
Canada
4.
What does Geography mean?
a)
explore
b)
the study of geology
c)
The study of Earth and its peoples, places, and environments.
d)
the process by which nations, cultures, and economies become mixed
5.
What is the Equator?
a)
A line of latitude that runs around the middle of Earth
b)
a large area of sand
c)
an area where river currents and the ocean tide meet
d)
the change of liquid water to water vapor
6.
What is a continent?
a)
a dispute; a discussion involving opposing views
b)
the result of water vapor changing to a liquid or a solid state
c)
A large, unbroken mass of land
d)
a region of parallel mountain chains
7.
What happened on 9-11
a)
WWII
b)
John F. Kennedy was assasinated
c)
George W. Bush was elected president
d)
The World Trade Center was attacked
8.
Who is the current President of the United States?
a)
Osama Bin Laden
b)
Barack Obama
c)
Saddam Hussein
d)
Hilary Clinton
9.
How many continents are there?
a)
4
b)
1
c)
5
d)
7
10.
How many states are in the U.S.?
a)
25
b)
100
c)
50
d)
3
11.
What is the capital of Texas?
a)
Houston
b)
Austin
c)
Dallas
d)
San Antonio
12.
What are the cardinal directions?
a)
North, South, East, West
b)
North, Northeast, South, Southeast
c)
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
d)
West, Southwest, East, Southeast
13.
What are the intermediate directions?
a)
South, North, East, West
b)
South, Southwest, North, Northeast
c)
Northwest, East, Southeast, West
d)
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
14.
What does contiguous mean?
a)
neverending
b)
sharing an edge or boundary; touching
c)
a border
d)
old; antique
15.
What is another name for a legend?
a)
key
b)
map
c)
title
d)
hero
16.
What year did Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue?
a)
1862
b)
1492
c)
1542
d)
1462
17.
What is a primary source?
a)
the only source
b)
record of an event created later by people not present at the event
c)
description of an event from someone who witnessed or lived through that event
d)
the number 1 source
18.
scale bar
a)
what you use to weigh yourself
b)
the feature on a map that tells how a measured space on the map relates to the actual distance on Earth
c)
the relationship between distances on the map and on Earth
d)
to climb
19.
What is Earth known as?
a)
the livable planet
b)
the coolest planet
c)
the largest planet
d)
"the water planet"
20.
What percent of Earth's surface is made up of water?
a)
70%
b)
50%
c)
85%
d)
99%
100 %
