Transportation
What is Transportation?
A way of moving people and things from one place to another
What is Communication?
A way of sending information to people
What is Population?
The number of people living in a community
What is Innovation?
Something new or different
What is Community?
A place where people live, work, and play
What was one form of transportation that people used in the 1700s?
By foot
Put these inventions in order from first to last by writing the numbers:
1. Radio
2. Computer
3. Smartphone
4. Television
5. Telephone
6. Telegraph
6, 5, 1, 4, 2, 3
Why did city populations grow over time?
Skyscrapers were used. Many people were needed to build them.
Car factories began to make more cars.
Railroads and trains covered many miles.
List three things we have today that people did NOT have three years ago
ipods, iphone, laptop, tablets, camera
cars, 6 lane highways,
refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave.
What new invention led to changes in buildings?
Elevators
Put these inventions in order from first to last by writing the numbers:
1. Horse
2. Foot
3. Plane
4. Steamboats
2,1,4,3
What was the FIRST invention for sending messages?
Telegraph
Name of things that most people did in the 1600s and 1700s
Most people never heard the news.
People chopped wood for heat and cooking.
People saved food to survive the winter.
Most Americans were born and died in the same town.
People made candles and soap.
Most people traveled by foot.
How did train, car, and airplane helped change communities?
it made moving from one place to another EASIER
What new inventions created new kinds of job?
airplane needed pilots
cars needed drivers
skyscrapers needed builders or office workers