Grade 2 · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 7
Trade and Transportation
How goods and people get where they need to go
What your child practises
Communities trade goods and move them by truck, train, plane and ship. Trade and transportation bring people the things they cannot grow or make nearby, and let communities sell what they produce.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: ways trade and transportation support communities · how trade and transportation by road, rail, air and water bring communities what they need
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
A highway links Edmonton and Calgary. How does it help people?
- It lets people and goods travel between cities
- It stops trucks
- It keeps cities apart
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It lets people and goods travel between cities
Hint: Roads connect communities.
Question 2
Which one carries goods across the ocean?
🚢- a skateboard
- a bicycle
- a ship
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a ship
Hint: Big ships carry goods between countries.
Question 3
Which job helps move goods from one place to another?
- a truck driver
- a baker
- a librarian
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a truck driver
Hint: Truck drivers carry goods along the roads.
Question 4
Which one carries lots of grain overland to a port?
🚆- a scooter
- a train
- a canoe
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a train
Hint: Long trains can carry grain from the Prairies to ports.
Question 5
When people in a community buy bananas from far away, they use…
🍌- trade and transportation
- only a library
- only a park
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trade and transportation
Hint: Bananas do not grow in Canada, so they are brought here.
Question 6
Is the trade close to home or far away? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🏘️ close to home · 🌍 far away
- 🍋selling lemonade on your street
- 🍌bananas shipped from another country
- 🧸swapping toys with a neighbour
- 🥕buying carrots at a farmers' market
- 🍊oranges brought in from a warm place
- 🌼canola sold to other countries
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🏘️ close to home: selling lemonade on your street, swapping toys with a neighbour, buying carrots at a farmers' market · 🌍 far away: bananas shipped from another country, oranges brought in from a warm place, canola sold to other countries
Hint: Local trade happens in your own community. Trade far away uses trucks, trains, ships and planes.