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2nd grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 8

Making & Trading

Scarcity, skills, local goods and trade.

What your child practices

Practices scarcity and choices, costs and benefits, the skills workers need, local goods compared with goods from other communities, and why people trade, including how rivers and the coast shape where Northwest Tribes live and trade.

Washington State Learning Standards learning standard: E1.2.1; E1.2.2; E2.2.1; E2.2.2; E4.2.1; G2.2.3 · scarcity and choices, skills for producing goods, local and distant goods, trade, and Northwest Tribal geography

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

    Two stores sell the same toy. One costs less. Many people buy from…

    • the cheaper store
    • the farther store
    • neither

  2. Question 2

    Which is a natural resource near Puget Sound?

    • computers
    • fish
    • plastic

  3. Question 3

    Cedar trees grow near the coast. Some coastal Tribes use cedar to make…

    • canoes and baskets
    • metal cars
    • glass windows

  4. Question 4

    Many Tribes near rivers in the Northwest fish for…

    • whales only
    • salmon
    • sharks

  5. Question 5

    Oranges grow in warm places. How do they get to Washington?

    • by truck or ship
    • they grow in snow
    • they walk

  6. Question 6

    Apples sent from Washington to other countries are…

    • imports
    • exports
    • taxes

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