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Comparing places

Geography · Places & Regions · ages 6-9
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. In Sundarpur, families often travel by boat during the rainy season. Why?

    • They just enjoy boat rides
    • Flood water covers the roads
    • Cars are not allowed in the village

  2. Ashfield has gentle green hills and mild rain. Sundarpur is flat and floods almost every year. Which describes Sundarpur's land?

    • Flat land that often floods
    • Steep mountains covered in snow
    • A dry desert with sand dunes

  3. A place can be like your area in one way, such as having farms, and different in another way, such as the type of houses people build.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Sundarpur's houses stand on tall stilts. What does this tell you about the land nearby?

    • The land floods often, so homes need to stay above the water
    • The land is freezing cold all year
    • The land never gets any rain

  5. Look at the chart of rainy days each month. Which place has more rainy days?

    Ashfield(UK)8Sundarpur20
    • Ashfield
    • They are the same
    • Sundarpur

  6. Which of these is a real similarity between Ashfield and Sundarpur, even though the places look very different?

    • Both have exactly the same weather all year
    • Both have families who live, work, and go to school there
    • Both are found on mountain tops

  7. A third village is cold and sits high in snowy mountains all year. Would its houses more likely look like Ashfield's brick houses or Sundarpur's stilt houses?

    • More like Ashfield's, built to keep warmth in rather than keep flood water out
    • More like Sundarpur's, built on stilts to escape floods
    • Neither, because cold mountain villages have no houses

  8. Maya says, 'Sundarpur floods a lot, so nobody can grow food there.' What is wrong with her idea?

    • Sundarpur never floods, so Maya is right for the wrong reason
    • Nobody actually lives in Sundarpur
    • Farmers there grow rice, which actually grows well in wet, flooded fields
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  1. Flood water covers the roads · When the river floods, roads disappear under water, so boats become the easiest way to get around.
  2. Flat land that often floods · Sundarpur sits on a flat river delta, so heavy rain often floods the fields.
  3. True · Places rarely match completely. You can find real similarities and real differences at the same time.
  4. The land floods often, so homes need to stay above the water · Stilts keep the floor above flood water, so stilts are a clue that flooding happens often.
  5. Sundarpur · Sundarpur's monsoon season brings far more rainy days than Ashfield's mild weather.
  6. Both have families who live, work, and go to school there · Even very different-looking places usually share the basics of daily life, like families, homes, and school.
  7. More like Ashfield's, built to keep warmth in rather than keep flood water out · Stilts solve a flooding problem. A cold, snowy mountain village faces a different problem, staying warm, so its homes would be built more like Ashfield's than Sundarpur's.
  8. Farmers there grow rice, which actually grows well in wet, flooded fields · Rice needs a lot of water, so farmers in flood-prone deltas often grow it on purpose in flooded fields.
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