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3rd grade · Social Studies · Unit 6 of 9

Our Region's Land

Landforms, resources and changes

What your child practices

Deserts, mountains, valleys, coasts, rivers and bays in California, reading maps and tables, and how people use the region's resources and change the land with farms, dams, canals and freeways.

California Content Standards learning standard: 3.1.1; 3.1.2 · the geographic features of the local region and how people have used its resources and changed the environment

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A map key, or legend, tells you…

    • the weather tomorrow
    • the time
    • who drew the map
    • what the map symbols mean

  2. Question 2

    People in a valley built canals to bring water to crops. They…

    • stopped farming
    • left the land as it was
    • moved to the desert
    • changed the land to meet their needs

  3. Question 3

    Which resource do people in the Central Valley use most to grow crops?

    • snow from the beach
    • salt water
    • sand from deserts
    • water from rivers and wells

  4. Question 4

    Which is a human-made feature?

    • a canyon
    • a mountain
    • a lake made by a glacier
    • a dam

  5. Question 5

    The Sierra Nevada is a range of…

    • deserts
    • mountains
    • lakes
    • islands

  6. Question 6

    A graph shows a town's population grew from 2,000 to 20,000. The town has…

    • shrunk
    • stayed the same
    • disappeared
    • grown much bigger

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