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Grade 8 Social Studies practice sheet

Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________

  1. Question 1

    What is a co-operative business?

    • a government office
    • a bank in another country
    • a business owned by one rich person
    • a business owned and run by its members

  2. Question 2

    What office did Joey Smallwood hold after 1949?

    • governor of the Commission
    • mayor of Halifax
    • first premier of the new province
    • Prime Minister of Canada

  3. Question 3

    Does each sign usually point to higher or lower quality of life?

    Sort into: 😊 Higher quality of life · 😟 Lower quality of life

    • 📖literacy rate of 99%
    • 👶very few infant deaths
    • 👵life expectancy of 82 years
    • 🪣many families without safe water
    • 🚰clean water for nearly everyone
    • 🏥high infant mortality rate
    • ⏳life expectancy of 52 years
    • ✏️literacy rate of 40%

  4. Question 4

    What is one way a growing city can change the land around it?

    • The city has no need for resources.
    • Farmland turns into ocean.
    • Forests are cut and farmland is used to supply the city.
    • The land stays untouched.

  5. Question 5

    Which tool helped sailors find direction at sea?

    • the loom
    • the compass
    • the printing press
    • the abacus

  6. Question 6

    Which is a secondary source?

    • a Renaissance painting
    • a Roman coin
    • a textbook about the Renaissance
    • a letter by Leonardo

  7. Question 7

    Which west coast city grew around a large paper mill that opened in 1925?

    • Twillingate
    • Placentia
    • Bonavista
    • Corner Brook

  8. Question 8

    Before 1949, Newfoundland was…

    • a province of Canada
    • a territory of France
    • a self-governing dominion, separate from Canada
    • part of the United States

  9. Question 9

    Fair trade aims to…

    • lower all prices
    • make goods more expensive for no reason
    • ban trade
    • give producers fair prices and safer working conditions

  10. Question 10

    How did the Columbian Exchange change what people ate in Europe?

    • No foods crossed the ocean.
    • Crops such as potatoes, tomatoes and maize arrived from the Americas.
    • Rice was invented in Europe.
    • Europeans stopped eating bread.

Answer key

  1. 1. a business owned and run by its members (Making a Living, 1800s to 1949)
  2. 2. first premier of the new province (Newfoundland Joins Canada)
  3. 3. 😊 Higher quality of life: literacy rate of 99%, very few infant deaths, life expectancy of 82 years, clean water for nearly everyone · 😟 Lower quality of life: many families without safe water, high infant mortality rate, life expectancy of 52 years, literacy rate of 40% (Quality of Life Around the World)
  4. 4. Forests are cut and farmland is used to supply the city. (People on the Move)
  5. 5. the compass (Exploration & Exchange)
  6. 6. a textbook about the Renaissance (Sources & Evidence)
  7. 7. Corner Brook (Making a Living, 1800s to 1949)
  8. 8. a self-governing dominion, separate from Canada (Newfoundland Joins Canada)
  9. 9. give producers fair prices and safer working conditions (Quality of Life Around the World)
  10. 10. Crops such as potatoes, tomatoes and maize arrived from the Americas. (People on the Move)

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