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 village high on a moor
A town at a river crossing
A quarry village under a limestone ridge
A junction where two valleys meet
A.Stone to cut and carts to carry it away
B.Routes converge, so a market grows
C.Few people, thin soil, and long walks to market
D.Trade gathers where everybody must pass
2.Draw a line from each one to its match.
A farm on flat river meadow
A port on a deep bay
A mill beside a fast stream
A settlement beside a coalfield
A.Ships can come close to shore to unload
B.Rich soil that floods in a wet winter
C.Water power turns the wheel all year
D.Pits and smoke, and work for those who dig
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Answer key — Where a Place Is, What It Is Like
Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. A village high on a moor — C (Few people, thin soil, and long walks to market) 2. A town at a river crossing — D (Trade gathers where everybody must pass) 3. A quarry village under a limestone ridge — A (Stone to cut and carts to carry it away) 4. A junction where two valleys meet — B (Routes converge, so a market grows)
2.1. A farm on flat river meadow — B (Rich soil that floods in a wet winter) 2. A port on a deep bay — A (Ships can come close to shore to unload) 3. A mill beside a fast stream — C (Water power turns the wheel all year) 4. A settlement beside a coalfield — D (Pits and smoke, and work for those who dig)
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.