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7th grade How foods, languages and inventions spread from place to place worksheet

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How foods, languages and inventions spread from place to place

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NameDate

Circle the best answer.

1.
Where did jazz begin, Milo asks?
- New Orleans
- Many places at once
- Springfield, Massachusetts, home of basketball
- Paris, in France
2.
When was basketball invented, and by whom, Noah asks?
- 1202, by Fibonacci
- 1920s, during the Jazz Age
- 1500s, by Spanish traders
- 1891, by James Naismith
3.
Jazz stayed strong in New Orleans while spreading worldwide. Which kind of diffusion is that, Ren asks?
- A push factor
- Relocation diffusion, carried by movers
- No diffusion: it stayed home
- Expansion diffusion
4.
People who moved to a new country brought a game with them. Which kind of diffusion is that, Tala asks?
- No diffusion
- Relocation diffusion
- Expansion diffusion from a home that stays strong
- A pull factor
5.
Musicians abroad mixed jazz with their own music. What does that show, Zee asks?
- Spreading culture can make new styles
- Jazz stopped when it left New Orleans
- Jazz stayed exactly the same everywhere
- Local music vanished
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 played by each person on Earth
- It is one of the most popular sports
7.
Which sentence about where jazz came from is careful, Bo asks?
- Jazz has no roots
- One person invented jazz in one day
- Jazz came from Europe, and nowhere else
- It grew from several older kinds of music
8.
Which spread in this pack had a known inventor and a known year, Esme asks?
- Jazz, from one known inventor
- Basketball
- The potato, first grown in a known year
- Paper, invented on a known day
9.
Jun's note says, "Jazz began in the 1920s." Which fix is right?
- Change "Jazz" to "Basketball"
- Change "1920s" to "1202"
- Leave it: the Jazz Age was when it began
- Change it: it began earlier
10.
Luz's note says, "When culture spreads, it never changes." Which fix is right?
Use the picture in question 9.
- Change "culture" to "weather"
- Change "spreads" to "sleeps"
- Leave it: jazz stayed the same
- Change it: it can change as it spreads

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How foods, languages and inventions spread from place to place. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

I can follow the potato from the Andes to Europe (1500s) and Asia (2000s), and tell where a food began from where it spread.
I can follow our numerals (India, Al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci's Liber Abaci of 1202, printing) and papermaking (Han China, the Middle East, Europe by the 1000s), and work out the years between.
I can follow jazz from New Orleans and basketball from Springfield (1891), name expansion and relocation diffusion, and say how cultures change as they spread.

Standard: D2.Geo.7.6-8

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