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Beaconhouse School System
Continuous Assessment Task I
October 2023
Name:________________________________
Class / Section: VI / _________
Date: _________________________________
Time allowed: 40 minutes
Social Studies
Important Instructions:
● Avoid over- writing, cutting, using lead pencil and ink remover.
● Read questions carefully before attempting answers.
● This paper has 2 Sections, Section I is Geography, Section II is History.
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All questions are to be attended.
For examiner’s use only
Section
Marks Allocated
I – Geography
15
II – History
15
Total
30
Signature of the invigilator
Marks Obtained
Signature of the Examiner
This document consists of 5 printed pages including the top sheet.
Continuous Assessment Task I, Oct 2023
Class VI
Social Studies
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Section I – Geography
Q1.
Marks Allocated: 15
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Mark the correct option.
1. Friedrich Mohs found that no mineral can scratch ___
a. Marble
b. Shale
c. diamond
d. granite
2. Broken rock material by streams, glaciers or biofuel from animal’s forms ___ rocks.
a. Igneous
b. sedimentary
c. metamorphic
d. intrusive
3. Outer core (layer of the Earth) is ___
a. liquid
b. solid
c. gas
d. none of these
4. The type of soil which is dark brown in color is___
a. Peat
b. sand
c. chalk
d. loam
5. Deposit of minerals that hang from the roof of the cave is called ___
a. Stalagmite
Q2.
b. stalactite
c. aquifer
d. pillar
Answer the following questions:
a. What are the materials soil is made up of?
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b. Write the names of any four layers of the Earth?
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c. What is a convergent and divergent boundary?
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d. Complete the rock cycle.
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Magma
Crystallization
Melting
Weathering,
erosion and
deposition
Heat and
pressure
Sediments
Compaction
and
cementation
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Section-II History
Q1.
Marks Allocated: 15
Choose the best answer.
[1x5]
6. The script of the Sumerian language is called ___
b. Hieroglyphics
b. cuneiform
c. demotic
d. ziggurat
7. Mesopotamia was ruled by ___
b. Nebuchadnezzar
b. Hammurabi
c. Sargon
d. all of them
8. Polytheists are people who worship ___
b. One God
b. many gods
c. animals
d. kings
9. The Egyptians invented the ___ system of counting.
b. Hieroglyphics
b. algebra
c. demotic
d. decimal
10. ___ was the ruler of Egypt who owned everything in the land.
b. Pharaohs
Q2.
b. scribes
c. priests
d. farmers
Answer the following questions:
1. What is papyrus and what is made from it?
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2. What is meant by ‘cradle of civilization’ and which region does this term refer
to?
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3. Why did ancient civilizations grow near rivers?
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4. Explain the process of mummification?
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Continuous Assessment Task I, Oct 2023
Class VI
Social Studies