Grade 3 · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 8
Alberta's Natural Resources
Oil, forests, farmland and water.
What your child practises
Alberta's natural resources (oil and natural gas, farmland, forests and water), renewable and non-renewable resources, and using them wisely.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: Alberta’s natural resources · Alberta's natural resources and how people use them wisely
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
Alberta's farmers grow crops such as…
🌾- wheat and canola
- bananas and coffee
- oranges and mangoes
- rice and cocoa
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wheat and canola
Hint: These crops grow well on the Prairies.
Question 2
Wind turbines in southern Alberta make…
⚡- lumber
- electricity from wind
- wheat
- gas from oil
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electricity from wind
Hint: Wind farms are common near the Rocky Mountain foothills.
Question 3
Renewable or non-renewable? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: ♻️ renewable · ⛽ non-renewable
- 🪨gravel
- 🛢️oil
- ☀️sunlight
- 🌲trees that are replanted
- 🌾crops grown each year
- ⚫coal
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♻️ renewable: sunlight, trees that are replanted, crops grown each year · ⛽ non-renewable: gravel, oil, coal
Hint: Renewable resources can grow back or never run out (trees if replanted, wind, sunlight). Non-renewable resources take millions of years to form (oil, natural gas, coal).
Question 4
Why is using less water a way to look after resources?
🚰- rain never falls
- water is not needed
- water costs nothing
- clean water is needed by all living things
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clean water is needed by all living things
Hint: Saving resources helps everyone.
Question 5
Why should we use resources carefully?
🌎- so they disappear sooner
- so there is enough for the future
- so we have no jobs
- because they are boring
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so there is enough for the future
Hint: Using resources wisely helps people tomorrow.
Question 6
In 1947, a large oil discovery was made at Leduc, near…
🛢️- Banff
- Fort McMurray
- Lethbridge
- Edmonton
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Edmonton
Hint: This find changed Alberta's economy.