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Grade 7 · Social Studies · Unit 12 of 16

Europe & the Americas

Places, land use, food and history

What your child practises

Children locate major places in Europe and the Americas and explore land and resource use, human impact on the environment, major economic activities, food production and historical events that still matter today.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 7-KL-024, 7-KL-028, 7-KL-029, 7-KH-031, 7-KE-050, 7-KE-052, 7-VL-008 · major places in Europe and the Americas, land and resource use, human impact on the environment, historical events, economic activities, food production and the diversity of the natural 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

    Food distribution is the…

    • moving of food from where it is grown to where it is eaten
    • cooking of food
    • tasting of food
    • growing of food

  2. Question 2

    Reforestation means…

    • cutting down a forest
    • planting trees to restore a forest
    • building a road
    • draining a lake

  3. Question 3

    Endangered species are those that…

    • may disappear if they are not protected
    • are common
    • are all insects
    • live only in zoos

  4. Question 4

    Food miles measure…

    • how big a farm is
    • how ripe the fruit is
    • how much food costs
    • how far food travels from farm to plate

  5. Question 5

    Restoring wetlands helps by…

    • increasing flooding only
    • adding pollution
    • improving water quality and habitat for wildlife
    • removing all animals

  6. Question 6

    Indigenous peoples in the Americas have approaches to land use that often emphasize…

    • caring for the land for future generations
    • ignoring the land
    • selling all land
    • using up everything quickly

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