How foods, languages and inventions spread from place to place

Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

1. 1.

   Where did jazz begin, Milo asks?

   • New Orleans
   • Many places at once
   • Paris, in France
   • Springfield, Massachusetts, home of basketball
2. 2.

   When was basketball invented, and by whom, Noah asks?

   • 1920s, during the Jazz Age
   • 1891, by James Naismith
   • 1202, by Fibonacci
   • 1500s, by Spanish traders
4. 3.

   Which kinds of music did early jazz draw on, Pia asks?

   • No older music: it came from nothing
   • European opera, and no other music
   • Music invented in 1891 in Springfield
   • Blues, ragtime, marches and dance music
5. 4.

   Jazz stayed strong in New Orleans while spreading worldwide. Which kind of diffusion is that, Ren asks?

   Use the picture in question 3.

   • No diffusion: it stayed home
   • A push factor
   • Relocation diffusion, carried by movers
   • Expansion diffusion
6. 5.

   Musicians abroad mixed jazz with their own music. What does that show, Zee asks?

   Use the picture in question 3.

   • Local music vanished
   • Jazz stopped when it left New Orleans
   • Spreading culture can make new styles
   • Jazz stayed exactly the same everywhere
7. 6.

   Which sentence about basketball is careful, Ari asks?

   • It is played in Springfield and nowhere else
   • It is the most popular sport, by each count
   • It is one of the most popular sports
   • It is played by each person on Earth
8. 7.

   Which sentence about where jazz came from is careful, Bo asks?

   • Jazz has no roots
   • Jazz came from Europe, and nowhere else
   • It grew from several older kinds of music
   • One person invented jazz in one day
9. 8.

   Which spread in this pack had a known inventor and a known year, Esme asks?

   • Jazz, from one known inventor
   • The potato, first grown in a known year
   • Basketball
   • Paper, invented on a known day
11. 9.

    Jun's note says, "Jazz began in the 1920s." Which fix is right?

    • Change "1920s" to "1202"
    • Change it: it began earlier
    • Leave it: the Jazz Age was when it began
    • Change "Jazz" to "Basketball"
12. 10.

    Luz's note says, "When culture spreads, it never changes." Which fix is right?

    Use the picture in question 9.

    • Change "spreads" to "sleeps"
    • Change it: it can change as it spreads
    • Leave it: jazz stayed the same
    • Change "culture" to "weather"