How people changed the land and adapted to it
Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
Circle the best answer.
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
- Terraces: flat steps
- Tunnels deep under the mountain
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
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
Pia reads the word irrigation. What is irrigation?
- Cutting down a forest
- Building steps of stone for climbers
- Bringing water to crops
- Drying fields in the sun
Ren reads that people adapted to the mountains. What does adapt mean?
Use the picture in question 4.
- To make a mountain taller
- To stop farming
- To leave a place for good and not come back
- To change how you live to suit a place
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
- Rice grows on the mountainside
- Water is led down the steps
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
- Steep slopes, and no farming
- One effect: the mountain falls down
- A new lake, and a new road
Who carved the Banaue Rice Terraces, Ari asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Builders of Hoover Dam
- The ancestors of the Igorot people
- No one: they formed by themselves
- Engineers from the Netherlands
Why does rice need flat fields, Bo asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Flat fields keep birds away
- Flat fields hold the water
- Slopes are too cold for any plant
- Rice cannot grow where it rains
Is carving terraces changing the land or adapting to it, Esme asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Changing it, with no adapting
- Adapting, with the land left untouched
- Neither: nothing changed
- Both