Urban Communities
This type of community is also called a city and is full of tall buildings.
Urban community
Suburban communities are usually built close to and around this kind of community.
A city
Rural communities have lots of open _____ and space between homes.
Which community type usually has the most people packed closely together?
Urban
Urban communities usually have a lot of people or just a few people?
A lot
Housing in a suburb is often this type, usually with its own yard.
A house/home
This job, growing crops or raising animals, is very common in rural communities.
Farmers
Which community type usually has the most farmland?
Rural
Name one thing you would see a lot of in an urban community.
Skyscrapers, apartments, subways, buses, traffic, etc.
True or False: Suburbs are usually more crowded than cities.
False
True or False: Rural communities usually have the smallest population of the three types.
True
Which community type is a mix of city life and country life?
Suburban
True or False: Urban communities have lots of open land with space between houses.
False — buildings are close together
Many people who live in the suburbs travel into the city for this reason.
For work
Name one thing you would see more of in a rural community than in a city.
Farms, fields, barns, or farm animals
Name one thing that urban, suburban, and rural communities all have in common.
They all have people and homes
Give one reason people in cities often ride a bus or subway instead of driving.
Places are close together and parking/traffic can be hard
This word describes a community that is a mix — not as crowded as a city, but not as spread out as the country.
Suburban community
Give one reason rural communities usually have fewer stores nearby.
Fewer people live there and homes are spread far apart
If you wanted lots of neighbors close by and stores you could walk to, which community type would you probably choose?
Urban or suburban