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7th grade How people changed the land and adapted to it worksheet

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How people changed the land and adapted to it

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Circle the best answer.

1.
Kira's chain has a blank: what do people carve into the slope?
- A lake at the very top of the peak
- Tunnels deep under the mountain
- Terraces: flat steps
- A single long road to the top
2.
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
3.
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
4.
Noah reads the word terrace. What is a terrace on a farm?
- A flat step cut into a slope
- A kind of rice
- A tunnel for a river
- A tall wall built around a whole city
5.
Ren reads that people adapted to the mountains. What does adapt mean?
Use the picture in question 4.
- To stop farming
- To leave a place for good and not come back
- To change how you live to suit a place
- To make a mountain taller
6.
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
- Water is led down the steps
- Rice grows on the mountainside
7.
Who carved the Banaue Rice Terraces, Ari asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- No one: they formed by themselves
- Engineers from the Netherlands
- Builders of Hoover Dam
- The ancestors of the Igorot people
8.
Why does rice need flat fields, Bo asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Slopes are too cold for any plant
- Flat fields keep birds away
- Flat fields hold the water
- Rice cannot grow where it rains
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
- Both
- Changing it, with no adapting
- Neither: nothing changed
10.
Jun's friend says the terraces did one thing: hold rice. Which reply fits the chain?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Disagree: they hold no water
- Not quite: they also lead water down
- Agree: rice made the terraces
- Agree: they have one effect

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About this worksheet

How people changed the land and adapted to it. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

I can follow how people carved terraces to farm steep slopes, and explain both changing the land and adapting to it.
I can read branching chains for the Dutch Zuiderzee Works (closed 1932; about 1,650 km² of new land) and Hoover Dam (1931–1936; floods, irrigation, power).
I can explain the Aral Sea as a trade-off: watered farmland, and a lake shrunk to 10% by 2007. I can also make careful claims about the North Aral Sea since 2005.

Standard: D2.Geo.8.6-8

Common mistakes

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What is the most common mistake with how people changed the land and adapted to it?

Your child reversed cause and effect. The cause comes first and makes the effect happen.

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