Grade 3 Social Studies practice sheet
Saskatchewan Curriculum · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
Is it a continent or an ocean? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🌍 continent · 🌊 ocean
- 📍Antarctica
- 📍Atlantic
- 📍Asia
- 📍Arctic
- 📍Southern
- 📍Africa
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🌍 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 don't affect people at all
- they only change people's names
- they shape the homes, food and clothes people use
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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…
🛡️- take other people's things
- only think about yourself
- help keep others safe too
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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
Many Maasai families in East Africa raise which animals?
- 🐧penguins
- 🦌reindeer
- 🐄cattle
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🐄 cattle
Hint: Cattle are an important part of life for many Maasai families, in Kenya and Tanzania.
Question 5
Which ocean is on the east coast of Canada?
🌊- the Atlantic Ocean
- the Indian Ocean
- the Pacific Ocean
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the Atlantic Ocean
Hint: East is on the right side of the map. The Atlantic Ocean is between Canada and Europe.
Question 6
Trading helps people meet their needs when…
🍌- it is a sunny day
- they already have everything
- they can't grow or make something where they live
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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 7
How can a global citizen help children in other countries?
💧- ignore problems far away
- waste food and water
- raise money for clean water or schools
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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 8
Where is the homeland of the Māori?
🌏- Australia
- Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa
- northern Japan
- Aotearoa New Zealand
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Aotearoa New Zealand
Hint: Aotearoa is the Māori name for New Zealand, in the Pacific Ocean.
Question 9
Most of Earth's surface is covered by…
🌏- forests
- sand
- water
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water
Hint: Look at a globe: there's more blue than any other colour! Oceans cover most of Earth.
Question 10
Which of these uses the land to meet a basic need?
- 🎬watching a movie
- 🥕growing vegetables on a farm
- 🎮playing a video game
Show answer
🥕 growing vegetables on a farm
Hint: Farms use soil, water and sunlight from the land to grow food.
Answer key
- 1. 🌍 continent: Antarctica, Asia, Africa · 🌊 ocean: Atlantic, Arctic, Southern (Maps & Globes)
- 2. they shape the homes, food and clothes people use (Needs Around the World)
- 3. help keep others safe too (Cultures of the World)
- 4. 🐄 cattle (Indigenous Peoples of the World)
- 5. the Atlantic Ocean (Maps & Globes)
- 6. they can't grow or make something where they live (Needs Around the World)
- 7. raise money for clean water or schools (Cultures of the World)
- 8. Aotearoa New Zealand (Indigenous Peoples of the World)
- 9. water (Maps & Globes)
- 10. 🥕 growing vegetables on a farm (Needs Around the World)
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