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Question 1
Is it a continent or an ocean? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🌍 continent · 🌊 ocean
🌍 continent: Antarctica, Asia, Africa · 🌊 ocean: Atlantic, Arctic, Southern
Hint: Continents are the 7 huge areas of land. Oceans are the 5 huge bodies of salt water between them.
Question 2
How do the land and weather of a place affect the way people live?
they shape the homes, food and clothes people use
Hint: People use what the land gives them and build homes and wear clothes that suit the weather.
Question 3
Rights come with responsibilities. If you have the right to be safe, your responsibility is to…
help keep others safe too
Hint: Everyone has the same rights, so we all have a responsibility to respect other people's rights.
Question 4
According to the passage, is oral history still shared today?
Oral history is history that is spoken and heard. Indigenous peoples have passed down knowledge this way for thousands of years, and they still do today.
Elders share stories, songs and teachings about their people's history, the land and how to live well together. Listeners learn to remember carefully so they can pass the knowledge on correctly.
When a whole community remembers important events together, it is called collective memory.
Yes, Elders still share it today
Hint: Look at the end of the first paragraph.
Question 5
Many Maasai families in East Africa raise which animals?
🐄 cattle
Hint: Cattle are an important part of life for many Maasai families, in Kenya and Tanzania.
Question 6
Which ocean is on the east coast of Canada?
the Atlantic Ocean
Hint: East is on the right side of the map. The Atlantic Ocean is between Canada and Europe.
Question 7
Trading helps people meet their needs when…
they can't grow or make something where they live
Hint: When a place can't grow bananas, people can trade for them with places that can.
Question 8
How can a global citizen help children in other countries?
raise money for clean water or schools
Hint: Even small actions, like a bake sale for a clean water project, can help people far away.
Question 9
Why do listeners try to remember the stories carefully?
Oral history is history that is spoken and heard. Indigenous peoples have passed down knowledge this way for thousands of years, and they still do today.
Elders share stories, songs and teachings about their people's history, the land and how to live well together. Listeners learn to remember carefully so they can pass the knowledge on correctly.
When a whole community remembers important events together, it is called collective memory.
so they can pass them on correctly
Hint: Read the end of the second paragraph.
Question 10
Where is the homeland of the Māori?
Aotearoa New Zealand
Hint: Aotearoa is the Māori name for New Zealand, in the Pacific Ocean.
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