Brazil at a glance: land, people, language and trade

Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

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   What Brazil sells abroad (cards A to C). Card A, a chart of merchandise exports, 2024 (columns Kind of goods | Share of merchandise exports): Manufactured goods | 23.2%; Food | 40.4%; Fuels | 17.0%; Ores and metals | 12.6%; Farm raw materials | 5.6%; Total value | about $337.0 billion. Note: World Bank figures for 2024; shares do not add to exactly 100% because some goods fit none of these groups. Merchandise exports are goods sold abroad, not services. Card B, World Bank figures for 2024 from the China and Japan profiles in this set: China, total merchandise exports about $3,575.8 billion, with manufactured goods 91.2% and food 2.4%; Japan, total about $707.0 billion, with manufactured goods 82.5% and food 1.1%. Card C, a brochure written for this sheet: Brazil, the world's farm! Come and see where the world's food comes from.

2. 1.

   Card A shows food as the largest group of Brazil's exports. Which statement is supported, Ari asks?

   • Food was the largest group of Brazil's goods exports in 2024
   • Manufactured goods were the largest group, with food second
   • Food was Brazil's largest export in each year since 1960
   • Food is Brazil's largest export because Brazil is the world's farm
3. 2.

   Card A says food was 40.4% of Brazil's total goods exports of about $337.0 billion. About how much was food, Bo asks?

   • About $136 billion
   • About $40.4 billion
   • About $201 billion
   • About $13.6 billion
4. 3.

   Card A and card B give each country's manufactured goods share. Which statement is supported, Esme asks?

   • Brazil's manufactured share is above Japan's but below China's
   • Brazil's manufactured share is far below China's and Japan's
   • Brazil's manufactured share is close to China's, within a few points
   • Brazil makes almost nothing, since manufactured goods are a small share
5. 4.

   Card C is a brochure that says Brazil is 'the world's farm'. What does card A show about that claim, Kira asks?

   • Card A shows the brochure was written by the Brazilian government
   • Card A contradicts the brochure, since food is a small part of exports
   • Food is Brazil's largest export group, not proof it feeds the world
   • Card A shows that Brazil grows most of the food that the world eats
6. 5.

   A student says: 'Brazil has huge farmland and forests, so that is why it exports more food than Japan.' Which response is careful, Luz asks?

   • Proven: Brazil's area is about 22 times Japan's, so land is the cause
   • Wrong: Japan exports more food than Brazil, with a share of 1.1%
   • A reasonable idea, but the cards give food shares, not the reason
   • Right: card C says Brazil grows more food than any other country
7. 6.

   Add the food, fuels, ores and metals, and farm raw materials shares on card A. What share of Brazil's goods exports is that, Milo asks?

   • 75.6%
   • 76.8%
   • 98.8%
   • 70.0%
8. 7.

   Manufactured goods are 23.2% of Brazil's goods exports. A student concludes: 'Brazil makes few goods.' How strong is that, Noah asks?

   • Strong: a share as low as 23.2% shows that Brazil makes few goods
   • Strong: card A shows that Brazil sells fewer goods than China does
   • Weak: card A shows 23.2% is the largest of the five groups
   • Weak: the chart shows goods sold abroad, not all that Brazil makes
9. 8.

   Cards A and B give total goods exports. About how many times as large as Brazil's were China's, Ren asks?

   • About 11 times as large
   • About 3,239 times as large
   • About 1.1 times as large
   • About 0.09 times as large
10. 9.

    A student wants to know whether Brazil's food exports have grown over time. What would help most, Tala asks?

    • The same chart for an earlier year, to compare
    • Japan's food exports for the same year, 2024, from card B
    • A second copy of the 2024 chart from another website
    • A chart of Brazil's life expectancy for the year 2024
11. 10.

    A brochure says Brazil is 'the world's farm'. A Japanese student reads card B and says food is only 1.1% of Japan's exports. What does the difference show, Zee asks?

    • Japan has no farms of its own, because its food share is 1.1%
    • Japan sells more food than Brazil, because its share is smaller
    • Brazil and Japan sell the same mix of goods, in different amounts
    • Countries sell different mixes, so a good makes different shares