How people changed the land and adapted to it

Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence

Circle the best answer.

1. 1.

   Kira's chain has a blank: what do people carve into the slope?

   • A lake at the very top of the peak
   • Tunnels deep under the mountain
   • Terraces: flat steps
   • A single long road to the top
2. 2.

   Luz's chain has a blank: where does the water for the steps come from?

   • The rainforest above
   • The sea far below the mountains
   • Snow carried up by hand
   • Wells dug at the foot of the slope
3. 3.

   Milo's chain has a blank: what grows on the flat, watered fields?

   • Rice
   • Cactus, which needs dry ground
   • Palm trees from the beach
   • Nothing: the slope is still too steep
5. 4.

   Noah reads the word terrace. What is a terrace on a farm?

   • A flat step cut into a slope
   • A kind of rice
   • A tunnel for a river
   • A tall wall built around a whole city
6. 5.

   Ren reads that people adapted to the mountains. What does adapt mean?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • To stop farming
   • To leave a place for good and not come back
   • To change how you live to suit a place
   • To make a mountain taller
7. 6.

   Which box is the first cause in Tala's chain?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • People carve terraces by hand
   • Steep slopes are hard to farm
   • Water is led down the steps
   • Rice grows on the mountainside
8. 7.

   Who carved the Banaue Rice Terraces, Ari asks?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • No one: they formed by themselves
   • Engineers from the Netherlands
   • Builders of Hoover Dam
   • The ancestors of the Igorot people
9. 8.

   Why does rice need flat fields, Bo asks?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • Slopes are too cold for any plant
   • Flat fields keep birds away
   • Flat fields hold the water
   • Rice cannot grow where it rains
10. 9.

    Is carving terraces changing the land or adapting to it, Esme asks?

    Use the picture in question 4.

    • Adapting, with the land left untouched
    • Both
    • Changing it, with no adapting
    • Neither: nothing changed
11. 10.

    Jun's friend says the terraces did one thing: hold rice. Which reply fits the chain?

    Use the picture in question 4.

    • Disagree: they hold no water
    • Not quite: they also lead water down
    • Agree: rice made the terraces
    • Agree: they have one effect