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Living With the Land is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how a nation's settlements used local resources, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Geo.8.3-5. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students 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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Living With the Land

D2.Geo.8.3-5

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Read each information text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the information text, then answer the questions.

The Hopi and the Desert Mesas

An information text written for this worksheet. The Hopi live on high, dry mesas in what is now northeastern Arizona. Mesas are flat-topped hills with steep sides. Some Hopi villages, such as Oraibi, have been lived in for more than 800 years. Houses are built of stone and adobe, which is mud mixed with straw. Their thick walls stay cool in the hot sun and hold warmth on cold nights. Very little rain falls, so Hopi farmers plant corn deep in sandy soil, where it can reach water left by melted snow and summer rain. Many fields are at the foot of the mesas, where rainwater runs off the rock. Corn is at the center of Hopi life, in food and in ceremonies. The Hopi Tribe has its own government today.

  1. 1. What is a mesa?
  2. 2. Why is corn so important to the Hopi?
  3. 3. How long has Oraibi been lived in?
2.Read the information text, then answer the questions.

The Haudenosaunee and the Eastern Forests

An information text written for this worksheet. The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy is made up of six nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. Their homelands are in the forests and river valleys of what is now New York State. In the past, families lived in longhouses built from wooden poles covered with elm bark. Many families, related through their mothers, shared one longhouse. Women farmed corn, beans and squash together in the same fields. The Haudenosaunee call these crops the Three Sisters. Men hunted deer in the forests and fished in the rivers and lakes. Villages moved every ten to twenty years, when the soil and the firewood nearby were used up. Today the Haudenosaunee nations have their own governments and communities in New York, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Canada.

  1. 1. How many nations make up the Haudenosaunee Confederacy?
  2. 2. Why were the forests important to Haudenosaunee life?
  3. 3. Who hunted deer and fished in the rivers?

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Answer key — Living With the Land

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A flat-topped hill with steep sides. 2. Corn is at the center of Hopi life, in food and in ceremonies. 3. More than 800 years.
  2. 2.1. Six nations. 2. They gave wood for longhouses and firewood, and deer to hunt. 3. The men.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.8.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.