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 single long road to the top
- Tunnels deep under the mountain
- A lake at the very top of the peak
- Terraces: flat steps
Luz's chain has a blank: where does the water for the steps come from?
- Wells dug at the foot of the slope
- The rainforest above
- The sea far below the mountains
- Snow carried up by hand
Noah reads the word terrace. What is a terrace on a farm?
- A tunnel for a river
- A tall wall built around a whole city
- A kind of rice
- A flat step cut into a slope
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 leave a place for good and not come back
- To change how you live to suit a place
- To stop farming
- To make a mountain taller
Which box is the first cause in Tala's chain?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Water is led down the steps
- Steep slopes are hard to farm
- Rice grows on the mountainside
- People carve terraces by hand
The terraces box leads to two effects. What are they, Zee asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- One effect: the mountain falls down
- A new lake, and a new road
- Steep slopes, and no farming
- Water led down, and flat fields for rice
Why does rice need flat fields, Bo asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Flat fields hold the water
- Rice cannot grow where it rains
- 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.
- Neither: nothing changed
- Adapting, with the land left untouched
- Both
- Changing it, with no adapting
Jun's friend says the terraces did one thing: hold rice. Which reply fits the chain?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Agree: they have one effect
- Agree: rice made the terraces
- Not quite: they also lead water down
- Disagree: they hold no water