WorksheetsSixth Grade Social Studies Essential Facts
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is geography?
a)
The study of lava.
b)
The study of the surface of the earth.
c)
The study of air
d)
The study of space
2.
What does the Earth consist of?
a)
animals and bugs
b)
people and grass
c)
Land and water
d)
school and homework
3.
What is a civilization?
a)
A group of people who have well-developed forms of government, religion, learning, and economy.
b)
A place that people come to worship and eat dinner
c)
A village
d)
A job
4.
What is a natural resource?
a)
Something that is in a car.
b)
Something made out of rock.
c)
A resources that is man made
d)
Something found in nature that is used.
5.
What is culture?
a)
The village that consist of hundreds of people that share secerets
b)
The way of life of a group of people, determined by their geography and resources.
c)
That land, water, and sun
d)
A huge city placed in the middle of nowhere.
6.
What is history?
a)
They study of nature and how many resources we can get from it.
b)
The study of the worlds government and how it affects us today.
c)
The study of the past and includes the story of how a civilization's culture developed.
d)
The study of school and how kids need to go to school to get a good education.
7.
What is an artifact?
a)
Something that is in a grocery store and bought by a customer
b)
Something that was thrown into lava and destroyed.
c)
Something that was made by nature and left behind.
d)
Something that was made by man and left behind.
8.
What do archaeologists study?
a)
People of the past
b)
History
c)
Artifacts of the past
d)
Culture of the past
9.
What do anthropologists study?
a)
Artifacts of the past
b)
Culture of the past
c)
Bugs and flowers
d)
People and continents
10.
What is carbon-14?
a)
A process used to measure the level of carbon in something that was once alive to determine it's age.
b)
The process of taking carbon dioxide out of plants to create a whole new type of plant.
c)
A way to create artifacts and tell what it is.
d)
A place where there is a lot of carbon dioxide in a n area and it is then vacuumed out so people can live there.
11.
What is a primary source?
a)
A firsthand account, someone, or something that was present at the time of an event.
b)
A secondhand account of an event.
12.
What is a secondary source?
a)
A firsthand account, someone, or something that was present at the time of an event.
b)
A secondhand account of an event.
13.
What time period did the humans first live?
a)
The Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
b)
Mesopotamia
c)
Neolithic Age
d)
The Medieval Ages
14.
Who is a person that does not have a permanent home and wander for food and water?
a)
Sumerian
b)
Villager
c)
Nomad
d)
Archaeologist
15.
What do most nomads hunt?
a)
Pig
b)
Buffalo
c)
Sheep
d)
Cow
16.
What was the most important event during the Old Stone Age?
a)
Sticks and fruits
b)
The villages
c)
The discovery of war
d)
The discovery of fire
17.
What is the New Stone Age also considered?
a)
Medieval Ages
b)
Neolithic Age
c)
Middle Ages
d)
Specialization
18.
What is agriculture?
a)
The development of different kinds of jobs.
b)
When you tell storys about your culture and it becomes a part of history.
c)
The cultivation of crops, which began the New Stone Age .
d)
The long strand of multiple rivers.
19.
What was the most important event during the New Stone Age?
a)
Development of argriculture
b)
The development of villages and not becoming a nomad.
c)
Hunting
d)
The beginning of the Egyptians birthday.
20.
What are the Cradles of Civilization?
a)
Where people got to hunt
b)
Where people go to cradle and hold their young/children
c)
The place where the first civilizations were developed
d)
When people turn 100 they went to have a big celebration
21.
What valleys did the first civilizations develop around?
a)
The Tigris and Euphrates,Indus, Huang Ho, and the Nile RIver.
b)
Mississippi ,Ganges, Amazon, Niger, and the Congo rivers
22.
What is technology?
a)
When a apple iPhone is made then sold to the consumer and broken.
b)
The development of tools and methods used to help humans preform tasks
c)
When people make predictions and say that they will happen in the future.
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