What Is a Community?
Map Skills
Kinds of Communities
Rules and Laws
100
A place where people do different things.
What is a community
100
This symbol is on every map and tells you the four main directions on a map.
What is a compass rose
100
This area is filled with lots of buildings.
What is an urban area
100
A rule that tells people how to behave in their community.
What is a law
200
These three things are what people do in a community.
What is live, play together, and work
200
This tells you what the colors, lines, and pictures on a map mean.
What is a map key
200
This area has houses and parks in it.
What is a suburb
200
These people help create laws.
What is citizens
300
An official member of a community, state, or country.
What is a citizen
300
Oregon shares a border with this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean
300
This area has farmland.
What is a rural area
300
This is one law that I have to obey while in a car.
What is wearing a seatbelt
400
This is an important part of being in a community.
What is working with others
400
Living in California, you would go in this direction to visit Oregon.
What is North
400
The number of people who live in an area.
What is population
400
This law helps keep my community clean.
What is no littering
500
People in every community need these three things.
What is food to eat, water to drink, and a house to live in.
500
This country is north of the United States.
What is Canada
500
This is the largest city in the United States
What is New York City
500
Name two things laws help people do.
What is live together safely and treat each other fairly
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