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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 9 of 15

People & Population

Demographics, women's rights and changes in quality of life.

What your child practises

Practises factors that shape Canada's population (immigration, birth rate, life expectancy, urbanization), changes in the status of women, and social and technological changes that affect quality of life.

Manitoba Curriculum learning outcome: 9-KH-029, 9-KH-032, 9-KH-033, 9-KL-026, 9-VH-009 · demographic patterns, the status of women, quality of life and the contributions of diverse groups

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

    Manitoba was the first province to give some women the vote in

    • 1966
    • 1816
    • 1916

  2. Question 2

    Life expectancy in Canada has…

    • dropped to 50
    • stayed the same
    • increased over the last century

  3. Question 3

    Since 1900, much of Canada's population growth has come from…

    • no births
    • moving to the Arctic
    • immigration

  4. Question 4

    Which technology changed communication in Canada the most in the past 30 years?

    • the telegraph
    • the printing press
    • the internet

  5. Question 5

    A population pyramid shows…

    • the number of people at each age
    • road maps
    • weather

  6. Question 6

    Predicting future trends in demographics means…

    • guessing without data
    • using data about births, deaths and migration to estimate changes
    • ignoring population

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