Vocabulary
What is a Community?
Geography Shapes Communities
Community Connections
Resources Shape Communities
100

A group of people who live and work in the place where they live.

What is community? 

100

Having to do with a city. 

What is urban?

100

The study of Earth's surface, climate, landforms, and bodies of water. 

What is geography? 

100

What natural resource does Canada export, or sell, to other countries?

Wood or Maple Syrup

100

This vegetable is grown in rural communities in Idaho's Snake River Valley. 

Some people like to mash them, fry them, and put them in a stew

What are potatoes?

200

The movement of people and goods from place to place.

What is transportation? 

200

A smaller city or large town outside of a city.

What is a suburb?

200

Name a landform that Boston, New Orleans, and Chicago were built near. 


What is water?



200

How are rural communities and urban communities similar?

Both places have people who live and work in the communities. 

200

This type of transportation helped grow the city of Atlanta, Georgia. 

What are trains? What are railroads?

300

A way of life shared by members of a group. 

What is culture?

300
This type of community is located in the countryside, is a small town, and has farms. 

What is rural?

300

Type of landform the state of Hawaii is made up of. 

What are islands?
300

Does your community have a large or small population?

Small - 4,4882 people according to the 2020 Census 

300
This resource is exported from countries in South America and Africa. It is popular with adults, especially in the morning. 

What is coffee?

400

Things found in nature that people can use, such as trees, water, soil, and minerals. 

What are natural resources?

400

Name three buildings that can be found in all communities. 

What are Schools, Fire Departments, Police Departments, or Libraries?

400

Do Fairbanks, Alaska, and Orlando, Florida have the same climate? 

No they do not. 

400

How are rural and urban communities different?

Rural communities are in the countryside, have farms, are small towns, and have small populations. Urban communities are in the city, have large populations, and are very busy.

400

This natural resource is mined in the mountains of Arizona.

What is copper?

500
The weather a place has over a long period of time.

What is climate?

500
This group passes laws and hires people to keep members of the community safe. 

What is a government? 

500

Natural features of the Earth's surface such as hills, plains, or coasts. 

What are landforms?

500

How do communities around the world connected?

They are interdependent and rely on each other for natural resources and manufactured goods.

500

This natural resource is turned into lumber, furniture, and other items. 

What are trees?