Grade 4 Social Studies practice sheet
Ontario Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
In Haudenosaunee society, descent is traced through…
👩- the mother's family (clan)
- the father's family only
- the richest person
- the oldest child
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the mother's family (clan)
Hint: Haudenosaunee society is matrilineal, and clan mothers have an important role.
Question 2
Why were the lives of a noble and a peasant so different in medieval Europe?
👑- they lived in the same house
- their rank decided their rights, work and home
- they had no differences
- they had no work
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their rank decided their rights, work and home
Hint: Social class decided much of daily life.
Question 3
Many Indigenous peoples take only what they need from the land. Why is this important?
🌱- to save money
- so the land and animals stay healthy for the future
- because they have no tools
- because the land is useless
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so the land and animals stay healthy for the future
Hint: This is stewardship.
Question 4
Why might a city-state go to war with another?
⚔️- to share all its crops
- to gain land or resources
- to take a holiday
- to make friends
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to gain land or resources
Hint: Competition over land and wealth caused conflict.
Question 5
A qamutiik is an Inuit…
🛷- tool for cooking
- house
- boat
- sled
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sled
Hint: It is pulled over snow and ice, traditionally by dogs.
Question 6
The Interior Plains are good for farming. Why?
🚜- ice and snow
- flat land and fertile soil
- steep slopes and rock
- deep forest
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flat land and fertile soil
Hint: Machines work well on flat land.
Question 7
A fish plant worker who cleans and packs fish works in the…
🐟- primary sector
- tertiary sector
- quaternary sector
- secondary sector
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secondary sector
Hint: Processing is secondary.
Question 8
Is it a way to harm the environment or a way to protect it? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 💚 protects · ⚠️ harms
- ☣️leaving toxic tailings uncovered
- 🌳replanting trees after logging
- 🪓cutting all the trees and not replanting
- 🎣setting fishing limits
- 🛢️releasing waste into a river
- ☀️putting solar panels on a roof
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💚 protects: replanting trees after logging, setting fishing limits, putting solar panels on a roof · ⚠️ harms: leaving toxic tailings uncovered, cutting all the trees and not replanting, releasing waste into a river
Hint: Reclaiming a mine, using solar panels and setting fishing limits protect the environment. Releasing waste and overfishing harm it.
Question 9
Which of these is a territory?
❄️- Quebec
- Alberta
- Manitoba
- Nunavut
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Nunavut
Hint: Nunavut became a territory in 1999.
Question 10
What is the capital city of Canada?
- 🏔️Vancouver
- 🏛️Ottawa
- ⛪Montreal
- 🏙️Toronto
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🏛️ Ottawa
Hint: Canada's Parliament meets in Ottawa, Ontario.
Answer key
- 1. the mother's family (clan) (Early Societies)
- 2. their rank decided their rights, work and home (Daily Life Long Ago)
- 3. so the land and animals stay healthy for the future (People & the Land)
- 4. to gain land or resources (Governing & Getting Along)
- 5. sled (Inventions & Evidence)
- 6. flat land and fertile soil (Canada's Physical Regions)
- 7. secondary sector (Jobs & Industries)
- 8. 💚 protects: replanting trees after logging, setting fishing limits, putting solar panels on a roof · ⚠️ harms: leaving toxic tailings uncovered, cutting all the trees and not replanting, releasing waste into a river (Industry & the Environment)
- 9. Nunavut (Provinces, Territories & Directions)
- 10. 🏛️ Ottawa (Provinces & Regions)
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