Grade 4

Why are there different cultures?

• Early people moved to new places and had to adapt to the environment.

• People like to eat different foods

• People created their own languages

Which of these caused different cultures to be born? Check as many as you need.

• Different jobs in an area

• Different crops had to be grown

• Different food was available

• Different kinds of houses because of the climate

• Stories and songs told different stories

Societies make progress when they work together to

• solve a problem

• design new coins

• harvest vegetables

What do societies do to overcome water shortages?

• Grow crops

• Build irrigation systems

• Build solar panels

What did early people create when they needed a way to store their food?

• Invented irrigation ditches

• Created pottery

• Invented the wheel

Before money was invented, how would a basket weaver get food?

• Make extra baskets to trade for food

• Make extra baskets and sell them for coins

• Trade blankets for baskets

Which is an example of trading goods?

• Babysitting, in exchange for money

• Teaching, in exchange for vegetables

• Trading vegetables for pottery

What word means "to move people or goods from one place to another."?

• explore

• transport

• trade