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The Town's Long Reach is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on consumption connecting distant places, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Geo.11.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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The Town's Long Reach

D2.Geo.11.K-2

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1.Why does a town's shopping list reveal its connections?
  • A.Because lists are long
  • B.Because each item names a place it came from
  • C.Because prices vary
2.Boxwood came a long way for shuttles. What does that show?
  • A.Boxwood is cheap
  • B.Even a local trade depended on distant places
  • C.Shuttles are small
3.Fish arrives from the coast each Tuesday. What does that require?
  • A.Somebody fishing, and somebody carrying it inland
  • B.A bigger square
  • C.Nothing, it arrives
4.What does 'the town depends on other places' mean?
  • A.It is poor
  • B.It cannot supply everything it uses from inside its own boundary
  • C.It has no farms
5.The market sells oranges from Spain. What does that connect the town to?
  • A.The Market Square
  • B.Only stall 5
  • C.The growers and pickers in Spain
6.The mill closed. How did that affect places that bought its cloth?
  • A.They stopped wearing cloth
  • B.Nothing changed
  • C.They had to buy cloth from somewhere else
7.The school burns coal from the coalfield. What does that connect it to?
  • A.The head teacher
  • B.The miners who cut it and the railway that brought it
  • C.The playground
8.The mill wove cloth for other towns. What did that connect it to?
  • A.Only Mill Row
  • B.Only the river
  • C.The places that bought and wore the cloth

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Answer key — The Town's Long Reach

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Because each item names a place it came from
  2. 2.Even a local trade depended on distant places
  3. 3.Somebody fishing, and somebody carrying it inland
  4. 4.It cannot supply everything it uses from inside its own boundary
  5. 5.The growers and pickers in Spain
  6. 6.They had to buy cloth from somewhere else
  7. 7.The miners who cut it and the railway that brought it
  8. 8.The places that bought and wore the cloth

More practice for D2.Geo.11.K-2

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.11.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.