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A Town That Trades is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on trading between places, 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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A Town That Trades

D2.Eco.14.K-2

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1.The town is inland. Why is there fish at the market?
  • A.The river has sea fish
  • B.Fish walk inland
  • C.Traders bring it from the coast
2.Boxwood came from far away for shuttles. Why?
  • A.Boxwood is hard and did not grow here in quantity
  • B.Local wood was banned
  • C.It was fashionable
3.Why does the town buy coal rather than dig it?
  • A.There is no coal here, and there is coal elsewhere
  • B.Coal is free elsewhere
  • C.Digging is banned
4.The town wove cloth. What might it have sold elsewhere?
  • A.Its census
  • B.Its river
  • C.The cloth it made more of than it needed
5.Why is trade usually good for both towns?
  • A.It costs nothing
  • B.Each gets something it wants for something it has spare
  • C.One always loses
6.The mill closed. What happened to the town's trade?
  • A.Trade was banned
  • B.Nothing changed
  • C.It had less to sell and had to find something else
7.Why might a mill town depend on other places?
  • A.It had no money
  • B.It disliked farming
  • C.It made one thing well and had to buy the rest
8.What does a town gain by trading?
  • A.Things it cannot make, in exchange for things it can
  • B.A bigger square
  • C.Free goods

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Answer key — A Town That Trades

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  1. 1.Traders bring it from the coast
  2. 2.Boxwood is hard and did not grow here in quantity
  3. 3.There is no coal here, and there is coal elsewhere
  4. 4.The cloth it made more of than it needed
  5. 5.Each gets something it wants for something it has spare
  6. 6.It had less to sell and had to find something else
  7. 7.It made one thing well and had to buy the rest
  8. 8.Things it cannot make, in exchange for things it can

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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.