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Social studies

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the meaning of GLOBE

a)

small model of the earth

b)

Telling about latitudes

c)

None of these

d)

Telling about longitudes

2.

What is meaning of AXIS

a)

An imaginary line joining two poles

b)

An imaginary line which divides the Earth into two equal parts or hemisphere.

c)

The 0 º longitude passing through Greenwich near London.

d)

None of these

3.

What is the meaning of EQUATOR

a)

An imaginary line joining two poles.

b)

The 0 º longitude passing through Greenwich near London.

c)

An imaginary line which divides the Earth into two equal parts or hemisphere.

d)

The two extreme points of the axis.

4.

Define latitude.

a)

Angular distance from the Prime Meridian is termed

b)

The Earth moves on its axis from West to East.

c)

None of these

d)

One of the imaginary circles parallel to the Equator

5.

Why do we have Standard Time?

a)

Places located on a meridian of longitude have the same time. It is called local time.

b)

Time at a meridian of longitude differs from the time of another meridian of longitude by 4 minutes (either less by 4 minutes or more by 4 minutes).

c)

A person going from west to east will have to advance his/her watch by 4 minutes after crossing a meridian.

d)

All of these

6.

What is Diversity?

a)

The vast range of things that we find in and around

b)

An introduction to a book or a written document

c)

The system of laws and

basic principles that a country is governed

d)

None of these

7.

What is PREAMBLE

a)

An introduction to a book or a written document.

b)

refer to the practice of judging other people negatively or seeing them as inferior.

c)

When we fix people into one image

d)

All of these

8.

What is Discrimination

a)

happens when people act on their prejudices or stereotypes.

b)

Some groups were forced to pick garbage and remove dead animals from the village.

c)

All of these

d)

None of these

9.

Who was considered the father of the Indian constitution

a)

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar

b)

Jawaharlal Nehru

c)

Gandhi ji

d)

Narendra Modi

10.

What is Mahar

a)

one of the backward classes which were treated as untouchables in the Bombay Presidency.

b)

a term that people belonging to the so- called lower

castes use to address themselves.

c)

wheel chair men

d)

none of these

11.

Why did the hunter-gatherers travel from place to place

a)

If they stayed at one place for a long time, they would have eaten up all the plant and animal resources available at that place.

b)

As animals move from place to place in search of food, hunters also moved to chase them for hunting.

c)

Plants and trees bear fruit in different seasons. So, when the season changed, food gatherers had to move to another place to gather different fruits.

d)

All of these

12.

How were stone tools used in the past

a)

Some stone tools were used to cut meat and bone, scrape bark

from trees, and hides i.e. animal skins, chop fruit, and roots.

b)

Some were used as handles of bone or wood.

c)

Some were used to make spears and arrows for hunting. Other

tools were used to cut wood.

d)

All of these

13.

Where did they make the painting

a)

They made the painting of the walls of caves.

b)

temple

c)

monuments

d)

house

14.

How was fire discovered

a)

The early humans discovered fire by rubbing two stones against each other.

b)

All of these

c)

They used to make fires in front of the caves to scare away wild

animals, cook foods and protect themselves from winter.

d)

Traces of Fire have been found at Kurnool in India in Palaeolithic age.

15.

What do you know about the ‘burials’ found at Mehrgrah

a)

When people die, their relatives and friends generally pay respect to them. People look after them, perhaps in the belief that there is some form of life after death.

b)

Burial is one such arrangement. Several burial sites have been found at Mehrgrah.

c)

All of these

d)

one of these