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Olympiad (Class 6) Social Studies — practice questions

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Who studies the past by digging up tools, pots and beads left behind?Read the answer and worked solution →A scientist examines fossils of plants and animals millions of years old. What is this expert called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which expert mainly studies soil, stones, hills, mountains and oceans of the Earth?Read the answer and worked solution →An expert reads writing carved on stone and metal in ancient times. What is the expert called?Read the answer and worked solution →How many days does an ordinary year have in the Gregorian calendar?Read the answer and worked solution →Why was the century year 1900 not a leap year in the Gregorian calendar?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the modern name for the years once marked with BC?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is another way to write the year 1947 CE?Read the answer and worked solution →Gautama Buddha was born about 560 BCE. How many years before 2024 CE was that?Read the answer and worked solution →Taking the year as 2024 CE, which year was exactly 12,000 years earlier?Read the answer and worked solution →The 21st century CE runs over which span of years?Read the answer and worked solution →To which century CE does the year 1900 belong?Read the answer and worked solution →A ruler born in 320 CE belongs to which century CE?Read the answer and worked solution →The Rani of Jhansi was born in 1828. How many years before 1947 was that?Read the answer and worked solution →Which years does the 3rd century BCE cover?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian book of tables predicts eclipses, sunrise times and festival dates?Read the answer and worked solution →Many traditional Indian calendars define months using the positions of which two bodies?Read the answer and worked solution →A place, person, text or object from which we learn about a past event is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Two sources of history contradict each other. What do historians do?Read the answer and worked solution →For the last two or three centuries of history, which source can be consulted?Read the answer and worked solution →For about how many years have modern humans (Homo sapiens) walked the Earth?Read the answer and worked solution →In early human life, what did gathering mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Where did early human bands typically stay?Read the answer and worked solution →What do cave rock paintings reveal about early humans?Read the answer and worked solution →Early humans made simple ornaments such as pendants and which of these?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did early farming communities often settle near rivers?Read the answer and worked solution →Which animals did early farming communities domesticate?Read the answer and worked solution →The last Ice Age ended around how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →After an Ice Age ended, what happened to the existing rivers?Read the answer and worked solution →In early history, what is a hamlet?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who studies the past by digging up tools, pots and beads left behind?

  1. Archaeologist
  2. Anthropologist
  3. Geologist
  4. Palaeontologist
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Correct answer: A. Archaeologist

Archaeologists recover tools, pots, beads, bones and bricks from the ground to reconstruct the past.

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A scientist examines fossils of plants and animals millions of years old. What is this expert called?

  1. Archaeologist
  2. Geologist
  3. Palaeontologist
  4. Anthropologist
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Correct answer: C. Palaeontologist

Fossil remains from millions of years ago are the field of the palaeontologist.

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Which expert mainly studies soil, stones, hills, mountains and oceans of the Earth?

  1. Epigraphist
  2. Palaeontologist
  3. Geologist
  4. Anthropologist
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Correct answer: C. Geologist

A geologist studies the physical features of the Earth such as soil, rocks, mountains and seas.

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