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Fed and Clothed From Abroad is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how trade creates interdependence, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.14.3-5. 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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Fed and Clothed From Abroad

D2.Eco.14.3-5

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1.The mills spin imported cotton. What happens if the cotton fails?
  • A.Wool is spun instead
  • B.The frames stand idle and wages fall
  • C.Nothing changes
2.What is the risk?
  • A.Ships get slower
  • B.Coal gets heavier
  • C.A failure far away arrives here as hunger or idleness
3.What does the grain-growing country depend on in return?
  • A.Nothing at all
  • B.Our coal only
  • C.Buyers here paying for the grain it cannot eat itself
4.What is the gain from this dependence?
  • A.More goods than the region could produce alone
  • B.Lower wages
  • C.Complete safety
5.The region lands 22,000 tons of grain. What does it depend on?
  • A.Countries that grow grain, and the ships that bring it
  • B.Its own farms
  • C.The mill district
6.31,000 tons of coal go outward. Who depends on that?
  • A.The places burning it, and the miners paid to cut it
  • B.Only the shipowners
  • C.Nobody
7.Why does a region import food it could partly grow?
  • A.Farming is banned
  • B.Imports are free
  • C.Because its land and labour earn more doing something else
8.Why is interdependence not the same as one side needing the other?
  • A.Only buyers lose
  • B.Only sellers lose
  • C.Both sides lose something if the trade stops

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Answer key — Fed and Clothed From Abroad

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The frames stand idle and wages fall
  2. 2.A failure far away arrives here as hunger or idleness
  3. 3.Buyers here paying for the grain it cannot eat itself
  4. 4.More goods than the region could produce alone
  5. 5.Countries that grow grain, and the ships that bring it
  6. 6.The places burning it, and the miners paid to cut it
  7. 7.Because its land and labour earn more doing something else
  8. 8.Both sides lose something if the trade stops

More practice for D2.Eco.14.3-5

Explain how trade makes countries depend on each other.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.14.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.