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Why Buy From Abroad? is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on trading between countries, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.14.K-2. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Why Buy From Abroad?

D2.Eco.14.K-2

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Circle the best answer.

1.How does trade help a shopper here?
  • A.It shortens the street
  • B.It makes food free
  • C.It gives them things that cannot be grown or made nearby
2.What is trade?
  • A.Growing food
  • B.Buying and selling between people or countries
  • C.Making rules
3.Hill Farm sells apples to another town. What is that called?
  • A.Saving
  • B.Trade
  • C.Borrowing
4.Oranges come from Spain. Why not from Hill Farm?
  • A.Hill Farm is too small
  • B.Farmers do not like oranges
  • C.Oranges need more warmth than our fields get
5.Why does the greengrocer sell both local and far-away fruit?
  • A.So people can buy things that do not grow here as well as things that do
  • B.Because signs look better
  • C.To fill the shelves
6.A country grows more wheat than it needs. What might it do?
  • A.Hide it
  • B.Sell some to countries that need it
  • C.Burn the extra
7.A country has no tea plants. What can it do?
  • A.Buy tea from a country that grows it
  • B.Grow tea in a cupboard
  • C.Go without tea forever
8.Why do bananas travel so far?
  • A.They only grow in hot places
  • B.They ripen on ships only
  • C.They like travelling

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Answer key — Why Buy From Abroad?

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.It gives them things that cannot be grown or made nearby
  2. 2.Buying and selling between people or countries
  3. 3.Trade
  4. 4.Oranges need more warmth than our fields get
  5. 5.So people can buy things that do not grow here as well as things that do
  6. 6.Sell some to countries that need it
  7. 7.Buy tea from a country that grows it
  8. 8.They only grow in hot places

More practice for D2.Eco.14.K-2

Say why people in one country buy and sell with people in another.

Teaching this next? Why Buy From Abroad? is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.14.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.