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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 7

Settlement & Living Conditions

Where people live, how it changes, and how well they live.

What your child practises

Practises the effect of human settlement on place over time and living conditions for groups in Canada. It follows the Grade 9 social studies skill descriptors on human systems and on economics and sustainability in the New Brunswick curriculum.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Geography: Human Systems and Interactions, Economics: Sustainability · the effect of human settlement on place over time, and living conditions for groups in Canada

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

    What can make living conditions fairer?

    • services such as housing, clean water, schools and health care
    • no health care
    • fewer houses
    • fewer schools

  2. Question 2

    Why did some communities in New Brunswick grow around sawmills and shipyards?

    • There was no river
    • There were no trees
    • Local forests provided lumber for jobs and ships
    • They had no workers

  3. Question 3

    Which river valley has been home to many communities, including Fredericton?

    • the Fraser Valley
    • the Saint John River valley (Wolastoq)
    • the Red River Valley
    • the Ottawa Valley

  4. Question 4

    Why did many early communities in New Brunswick form along rivers and coasts?

    • Water gave travel, food and power
    • Rivers had no use
    • Rivers were boring
    • Coasts were far from everything

  5. Question 5

    What is settlement?

    • a kind of tax
    • a school course
    • a type of ship
    • the way people live in a place and where they build homes

  6. Question 6

    Why do some groups in Canada have lower incomes than others?

    • unequal opportunities and past unfair treatment can play a role
    • because of luck only
    • because of age only
    • because of weather

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