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GRADE 5 GP Term I Worksheet
GRADE 5 GP Term I Worksheet
i. Hydration
iii. Pollution
v. Recycling
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Q4. Analysis skill:
a. Read and sort these useful statements:
It can be useful when we are researching local and global issues to think about causes and consequences.
The list below has got jumbled up- global issues causes and consequences are all mixed up. Sort out in a
proper order.
People can do their shopping online: Polar ice caps are melting: Local shops go out of business:
Greenhouse gases are released: People have to reduce the amount they use: Children eat too much sugar:
Sea levels are rising: There is not enough water: Children become obese: Coal is burnt to produce
electricity.
Issue Cause Consequences
Energy
Technology
Water
Climate change
Food
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. b. Read the short article:
On the Southerly Island, the climate is warm and wet, which means the farmers can grow flowers in
their fields all year round. Local workers pick the flowers by hand, and they are flown by plane to be
sold thousands of kilometers away in Northland, where the climate is too clod to grow flowers
outdoors for much of the year.
Look at these different perspectives on the flower trade and match them to the people.
S# Perspective Who?
1. The work is poorly paid and backbreaking, but the farmers do not a. A flower – grower
care so long as they make a profit. in Northland.
2. Moving people and goods by air is contributing to climate change b. A technology
because of all the carbon that is released. expert
3. Although, our flowers are local, they cost more to produce because c. A farmer in
we have to grow them indoors. Southerly Island.
4. Transporting flowers by air, costly- if we had to pay our workers d. An environment
more, we would go out of business, and they would be out of a job. campaigner
5. The work could be done by machines, but the farmers will not invest e. A farmworker on
in them- they prefer to pay their workers as little as possible. the Southerly
lands.
c. Find a cause, a consequence and a solution for each of issue and write its letter in the appropriate box in
the grid.
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d. Read justification and answer the given questions:
i. What arguments do you use to justify taking action on the issue of air pollution ?
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ii. What arguments do you use to justify the solution of wearing anti-smog masks?
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f. Sort the perspectives into three groups: Personal, Local/National and Global .
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