How people changed the land and adapted to it
Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
Circle the best answer.
Luz's chain has a blank: where does the water for the steps come from?
- Wells dug at the foot of the slope
- Snow carried up by hand
- The sea far below the mountains
- The rainforest above
Milo's chain has a blank: what grows on the flat, watered fields?
- Palm trees from the beach
- Nothing: the slope is still too steep
- Cactus, which needs dry ground
- Rice
Noah reads the word terrace. What is a terrace on a farm?
- A tall wall built around a whole city
- A kind of rice
- A flat step cut into a slope
- A tunnel for a river
Pia reads the word irrigation. What is irrigation?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Cutting down a forest
- Drying fields in the sun
- Bringing water to crops
- Building steps of stone for climbers
Ren reads that people adapted to the mountains. What does adapt mean?
Use the picture in question 3.
- 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
Which box is the first cause in Tala's chain?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Rice grows on the mountainside
- Water is led down the steps
- People carve terraces by hand
- Steep slopes are hard to farm
The terraces box leads to two effects. What are they, Zee asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- One effect: the mountain falls down
- Steep slopes, and no farming
- A new lake, and a new road
- Water led down, and flat fields for rice
Who carved the Banaue Rice Terraces, Ari asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Engineers from the Netherlands
- Builders of Hoover Dam
- The ancestors of the Igorot people
- No one: they formed by themselves
Why does rice need flat fields, Bo asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Rice cannot grow where it rains
- Flat fields hold the water
- Flat fields keep birds away
- Slopes are too cold for any plant
Is carving terraces changing the land or adapting to it, Esme asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Adapting, with the land left untouched
- Neither: nothing changed
- Changing it, with no adapting
- Both