Where a Place Is, What It Is Like is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on location and environmental characteristics, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Geo.2.3-5. 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 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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Where a Place Is, What It Is Like
D2.Geo.2.3-5
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Draw a line from each place to what follows from it.
1.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A settlement beside a coalfield
A mill beside a fast stream
A port on a deep bay
A town at a river crossing
A.Pits and smoke, and work for those who dig
B.Water power turns the wheel all year
C.Trade gathers where everybody must pass
D.Ships can come close to shore to unload
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A village high on a moor
A quarry village under a limestone ridge
A junction where two valleys meet
A farm on flat river meadow
A.Rich soil that floods in a wet winter
B.Routes converge, so a market grows
C.Few people, thin soil, and long walks to market
D.Stone to cut and carts to carry it away
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Answer key — Where a Place Is, What It Is Like
Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A settlement beside a coalfield — A (Pits and smoke, and work for those who dig) 2. A mill beside a fast stream — B (Water power turns the wheel all year) 3. A port on a deep bay — D (Ships can come close to shore to unload) 4. A town at a river crossing — C (Trade gathers where everybody must pass)
2.1. A village high on a moor — C (Few people, thin soil, and long walks to market) 2. A quarry village under a limestone ridge — D (Stone to cut and carts to carry it away) 3. A junction where two valleys meet — B (Routes converge, so a market grows) 4. A farm on flat river meadow — A (Rich soil that floods in a wet winter)
More practice for D2.Geo.2.3-5
Use maps and satellite images to explain how where a place is shapes what it is like.