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What a Country Decided to Build is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on culture and how people adapt their environment, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Geo.4.3-5. 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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What a Country Decided to Build

D2.Geo.4.3-5

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Draw a line from each community to what it built.

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Answer key — What a Country Decided to Build

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A city that decided to start again — B (New roads cut across where the old streets ran) 2. A country that decided housing was a public duty — D (Estates built by councils rather than by firms) 3. A people who walk to school — A (A school placed within each new estate) 4. A country short of land and unwilling to spread — C (Building upward accepted as normal)
  2. 2.1. A community organised around a place of worship — C (New estates planned with one at their centre) 2. A country that trusts published figures — A (Quarterly statistics and a public argument about them) 3. A people who expect a garden with a house — D (Low estates spreading outward rather than upward) 4. A city that values its old street plan — B (Rebuilding along the lines that were there before)

More practice for D2.Geo.4.3-5

Explain how culture shapes the way people change and adapt to their surroundings.

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Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Geo.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.