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Grade 9 · Social Studies · Unit 1 of 9

Thinking Like a Geographer

Places, causes and change

What your child practises

Practises the disciplinary thinking used throughout Grade 9 social studies: what makes a place significant, how people and the environment affect each other, continuity and change, and weighing implications.

Prince Edward Island Curriculum curriculum outcome: DT1; DT2; DT3; DT4 · the geographic thinking skills of significance, cause and effect, continuity and change, and implications

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 town’s residents hold a meeting to share their worries. Which kind of implication is this mainly?

    • geological
    • social
    • economic
    • environmental

  2. Question 2

    An issue has environmental, economic, political and social implications. What does implications mean?

    • likely results or effects
    • old stories
    • measurements
    • building plans

  3. Question 3

    Which is a physical feature of a place?

    • a bridge
    • a school
    • a highway
    • a river

  4. Question 4

    Which of these best compares two places?

    • I prefer the first place to the second
    • One place is bigger than I would like it to be
    • Neither place exists on any map
    • Both have farms, but one is on flat land and one is hilly

  5. Question 5

    Which is an example of continuity in a coastal community?

    • A hotel replaces a farm by the water
    • Fishing is still done there as it was long ago
    • A new factory opens on the edge of town
    • A new road is built through the village

  6. Question 6

    Geographic perspective asks us to…

    • ignore the environment and only look at money
    • only consider the one opinion that you like best
    • avoid facts and just pick a side to be on
    • consider the different points of view of people affected by an issue

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