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
   • A single long road to the top
   • Tunnels deep under the mountain
   • Terraces: flat steps
2. 2.

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

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

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

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

   Pia reads the word irrigation. What is irrigation?

   • Cutting down a forest
   • Drying fields in the sun
   • Bringing water to crops
   • Building steps of stone for climbers
6. 5.

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

   Use the picture in question 4.

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

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

   Use the picture in question 4.

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

   The terraces box leads to two effects. What are they, Zee asks?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • Water led down, and flat fields for rice
   • A new lake, and a new road
   • One effect: the mountain falls down
   • Steep slopes, and no farming
9. 8.

   Who carved the Banaue Rice Terraces, Ari asks?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • No one: they formed by themselves
   • Builders of Hoover Dam
   • The ancestors of the Igorot people
   • Engineers from the Netherlands
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
    • Neither: nothing changed
    • Changing it, with no adapting
    • Both
11. 10.

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

    Use the picture in question 4.

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