2nd grade Social Studies practice sheet
Oregon State Standards · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
Where can families buy food in a community?
- 📚a library
- 🚒a fire station
- 🛒a grocery store
🛒 a grocery store
Hint: Grocery stores, markets and farms help people get food.
Question 2
Put the generations in order, from oldest to youngest.
- 🧓grandparent
- 🧒child
- 👵great-grandparent
- 🧑parent
great-grandparent → grandparent → parent → child
Hint: Great-grandparent, grandparent, parent, child.
Question 3
A community may have a market. What can people do there?
- buy and sell food and goods
- learn to swim only
- fly planes
buy and sell food and goods
Hint: Markets help people get what they need.
Question 4
Long ago, many people in coastal towns worked as…
- fishers
- astronauts
- video game makers
fishers
Hint: The sea gave people food and work.
Question 5
You and a friend both want the swing. What is a fair plan?
- fight for it
- tell on the friend
- take turns for a few minutes each
take turns for a few minutes each
Hint: Turn-taking is fair.
Question 6
A changemaker is someone who…
- works to make things fairer
- only changes clothes
- changes the weather
works to make things fairer
Hint: Changemakers help their community.
Question 7
Which country is south of the United States?
- Canada
- Japan
- Mexico
Mexico
Hint: Mexico shares our southern border.
Question 8
A bus driver gives a…
- natural resource
- service
- good
service
Hint: A service is work done for others.
Question 9
Everyone needs a safe place to live. What is that called?
- 🏠shelter
- 🛝a playground
- 🏪a store
🏠 shelter
Hint: Shelter keeps us safe, warm and dry.
Question 10
What can an old photograph tell us?
📷- how people looked and what they wore
- what the weather will be
- what they will eat tomorrow
how people looked and what they wore
Hint: Photos are a source about the past.
Answer key
- 1. 🛒 a grocery store (Needs & Wants)
- 2. great-grandparent → grandparent → parent → child (Then & Now)
- 3. buy and sell food and goods (Communities Compared)
- 4. fishers (Our Community Changes)
- 5. take turns for a few minutes each (Working Together Fairly)
- 6. works to make things fairer (Citizens & Leaders)
- 7. Mexico (Maps of Our World)
- 8. service (Work, Saving & Resources)
- 9. 🏠 shelter (Needs & Wants)
- 10. how people looked and what they wore (Then & Now)
Want more than 10 questions?
In Gradelings the questions change every time and adjust to your child, with hints and kind feedback. See all social studies units.