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 quarry village under a limestone ridge
A port on a deep bay
A village high on a moor
A.Pits and smoke, and work for those who dig
B.Ships can come close to shore to unload
C.Stone to cut and carts to carry it away
D.Few people, thin soil, and long walks to market
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A junction where two valleys meet
A farm on flat river meadow
A mill beside a fast stream
A town at a river crossing
A.Water power turns the wheel all year
B.Trade gathers where everybody must pass
C.Rich soil that floods in a wet winter
D.Routes converge, so a market grows
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Answer key — Where a Place Is, What It Is Like
Set 12. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A settlement beside a coalfield — A (Pits and smoke, and work for those who dig) 2. A quarry village under a limestone ridge — C (Stone to cut and carts to carry it away) 3. A port on a deep bay — B (Ships can come close to shore to unload) 4. A village high on a moor — D (Few people, thin soil, and long walks to market)
2.1. A junction where two valleys meet — D (Routes converge, so a market grows) 2. A farm on flat river meadow — C (Rich soil that floods in a wet winter) 3. A mill beside a fast stream — A (Water power turns the wheel all year) 4. A town at a river crossing — B (Trade gathers where everybody must pass)
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.