Vocabulary
A network of vehicles like buses 公共汽車/车， rapid transit 地鐵/铁 and light rail 輕軌/轻轨.
What is public transportation 公共交通？
This word contains the characters 公，共，气，and 车/車。
What is bus 公共汽车?
The decade Shanghai Metro opened up.
What are the 1990's?
Subway 地鐵/铁 violence often occurs in this city.
What is New York 紐約/纽约？
TRUE OR FALSE: ALL cities mentioned in the presentation have a crime/violence problem occurring in 公共交通.
False
Another type of 公共交通 that runs on rails, but instead of a third rail providing power, it runs on overhead wires.
This character contains the radicals 钅(jīn) and 失 (shī).
What is 铁/鐵?
Largest 地鐵/地铁 systems in the world.
What are Beijing Subway 北京地鐵/铁 and Shanghai Metro 上海地铁/鐵？
The busiest 地鐵/铁站 in Shanghai 上海.
What is People's Square Station?
Name one of the many pros of 公共交通。
Possible answers: Reduces fuel dependency, eases traffic congestion, Builds communities, helps people who can't afford a car, connects people living in the suburbs to the city
A form of 公共交通 that runs on three rails and is usually underground.
What is 地鐵/subway?
This character means light, gentle, and easy.
What is 輕/轻？
The longest 輕軌/轻轨 line in the world, located in Los Angeles 洛杉矶/磯.
What is the A line?
This country invented the first high speed rail train in the 1960's.
What is Japan 日本?
How much 元 will it cost in 北京 once your trip reaches 30 km?
7元
This form of 公共交通 doesn't run on rails, mainly on the streets.
What is a bus 公共汽車/车？
This radical means "earth", found in the character 地 used in the word subway。
What is 土？
Busiest 地鐵/铁站 in New York 紐約/纽约.
What is Times Square 42nd Street Station?
The three cities that Abby mentioned she rode 公共交通 on.
What are 洛杉磯/矶，紐約/纽约和華盛頓/华盛顿 (Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C.
What are the main forms of 公共交通 in 危地馬/马拉?
Chicken Bus 公共汽車/车, pullman (first class 公共汽車/车）Transmetro
Used to store fare in order to pay for riding 公共交通.
What is 卡 a fare card?
It means, to stop, or perhaps it means a station too.
What is 站？
The busiest subway/light rail 地鐵/铁和輕軌/轻轨站 in Los Angeles 洛杉磯。
What is 7th Street Metro Center?
This city is where the Chicken Bus 公共汽车, is a form of 公共交通 is located in.
What is Guatemala City 危地马/馬拉?
Name a line on the Toei Subway (東/东京，日本).
Four possible answers: Asakusa, Mita, Shinjuku, and Oedo