Communities
Types of Communities
Map and Globe Skills
Vocabulary
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100
There are four things people can do in a community. Give me two of them.
live, work, play, help each other
100
Describe a rural community.
open farm lands, hills, not a lot of people
100
What are the four basic directions.
North East South West
100
What is a place where people live, work, play, and help each other?
community
100
This type of community is near a large city.
suburb/suburban
200
We already mentioned two of the four ways of what people do in a community. Give me the other two.
live, work, play, help each other.
200
Describe a urban city.
tall buildings, squished together, traffic, a lot of people
200
What are the four intermediate directions?
Northeast Southeast Northwest Southwest
200
What do we call a celebration?
a festival
200
This type of community is basically a farmland with open land and fewer people than a suburb.
rural
300
Give me three jobs or work that people might do in a community.
doctor lawyer nurse construction worker teacher banker
300
Describe a suburb.
community near a large city, houses with yards, neighborhoods,
300
If I am traveling from Chicago to Cedar Rapids, what direction would I be going?
West
300
This type of community describes a city area.
Urban
300
What is the way people get from one place to another called?
transportation
400
What type of program did Jill Straton Ballard and Maxine Solomon organize in Raleigh, North Carolina?
A food program to help feed the hungry.
400
What type of community is the city of Chicago known as?
Urban
400
If I were traveling from Buffalo, New York to Cleveland, what direction would I be going?
Southwest
400
What is a city where a country or state has its government called?
a capital
400
What is the distance people travel to and from work called?
commute
500
What helps us to understand communities? a. festivals b. the earth c. the capitals d. geography
geography
500
What type of community is Orland Park known as?
Suburb
500
If I were traveling from Indiana to New York, what direction would I be going?
Northeast
500
What is the study of Earth and the people and animals that live on it?
geography
500
What set of directions are halfway between two cardinal directions?
intermediate directions
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