Why farming changed everything: villages, surplus and specialists
Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
Circle the best answer.
Read this first
Two ways of life
Way of life Food Homes Extra food Hunter-gatherers wild foods gathered from the land camps, moved often little stored Early farmers crops they planted and animals they raised ? a surplus stored for later The cell marked ? is blank.
Bo's chart has a blank under Homes for early farmers. What fills it?
- Tall stone towers
- Boats on the river
- Villages where they stayed
- Camps they packed up and moved often
Jun's chart has a blank under Extra food for early farmers. What fills it?
- Food thrown away each day
- Little or nothing stored for later
- A surplus stored for later
- Food from a supermarket
Two ways of life
Way of life Food Homes Extra food Hunter-gatherers wild foods gathered from the land camps, moved often little stored Early farmers crops they planted and animals they raised villages where they stayed a surplus stored for later Kira reads the word surplus. What does it mean for a farmer?
- A kind of wheat
- Extra food beyond what is needed now
- Food found in the wild
- The food a family grows in a whole year
Luz reads that farmers domesticated wheat and goats. What does domesticate mean?
- To build a stone wall
- To store extra grain
- To raise plants or animals to live with people
- To gather wild foods on long trips
Milo reads about the Fertile Crescent. What is it?
- A curved band of land in Southwest Asia
- A kind of early boat
- A dry desert far away in South America
- A Roman road
Noah reads about the first crops farmed in the Fertile Crescent. Which were among them?
- Rice and tea
- Cocoa and coffee
- Corn, beans, squash, potatoes and tomatoes
- Emmer wheat, einkorn wheat and barley
One of the first animals people domesticated was first kept in Iran about 10,000 years ago. Which one, Pia asks?
- Goats
- Lions
- Whales
- Kangaroos
Flax was one of the first crops of the Fertile Crescent. What did people use flax for, Ren asks?
- Fibers for linen cloth
- Sugar for sweets
- Flour for bread
- Food for wild lions
Why did early farmers stay in one place, Tala asks?
- Because living in villages forced them to farm
- To follow wild herds
- To look after fields and stored crops
- Because they had no tools
How did a surplus help trade begin, Ari asks?
- Trade made the crops grow
- Extra goods could be swapped with others
- A surplus meant there was no food left over
- Hunters had no need to eat