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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Pia reads the word irrigation. What is irrigation?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • Bringing water to crops
   • Building steps of stone for climbers
   • Cutting down a forest
   • Drying fields in the sun
7. 6.

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

   Use the picture in question 4.

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

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

   Use the picture in question 4.

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

   Why does rice need flat fields, Bo asks?

   Use the picture in question 4.

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

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

    Use the picture in question 4.

    • Both
    • Changing it, with no adapting
    • Adapting, with the land left untouched
    • 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.

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