Types of Communities
A community that related to the country, country life, or agriculture.
What is a Rural community?
Think of a village where houses are close together usually by a river for this type of settlement.
What is a Nucleated settlement?
To escape war or natural disasters, to find better opportunities such as jobs, to provide opportunities for their children are all reasons to maybe do this.
What is to Immigrate?
A Tallgrass prairie ecosystem that was once a vast inland sea.
What are the Flint Hills?
A short phrase that describes the map's subject and location.
What is a title?
A place that is close to a city or town but less crowded than the city.
What is a Suburban community?
Emporia would be considered this type of settlement.
What is a Nucleated settlement?
The process of moving to a new country with the intention of living there permanently.
What is Immigration?
The primary water source for Emporia and originates in the Flint Hills and flows through Kansas and Oklahoma.
What is the Neosho River?
A description or table of symbols that explains what the colors, styles, and symbols on a map represent.
What is a Legend or Key?
Olpe and Americus are considered this type of community.
What is a Rural community?
Imagine houses built along a road or a river in a long line for this type of settlement.
What is a Linear Settlement type?
Back in the early 1900s, Citizens of Mexico immigrated to Emporia to work on this new opportunity.
What is the Railroad?
One of its streams flow by Peter Pan Park and Soden's Grove and meets with the Neosho River near the eastern boundary of Emporia.
What is the Cottonwood River?
A series of crossing lines that create squares or rectangles that helps people locate places on the map.
What is a Grid System or Pattern?
A city or town, with lots of people living close together, busy streets, and tall buildings.
What is an Urban community?
Picture farms spread far apart in a rural area with lots of space in between for this settlement type.
What is a Dispersed Settlement type?
During the 1980s the rise of this industry brought a number of new immigrants from Spanish-Speaking Countries as well as Asian and African countries.
What is the meatpacking industry?
Emporia, KS has Hot and Humid summers and Cool to Mild winters due to this climate type.
What is a Humid Subtropical Climate type?
Shows the relationship between the distances on the map and the actual distances on Earth.
What is a Scale?
Wichita and Kansas City are considered this type of community.
What is an Urban community?
As you get to the edge of Emporia where there are farms and fields, this type of settlement is there.
What is a Dispersed Settlement?
A fundamental aspect of human history and people have been doing this for thousands of year.
What is immigrating?
These numbers represent Emporia's ________.
1860: 843
1900: 8,223
2020: 24,139
What is Population or Population Density?
A symbolic representation of selected characteristics of a place usually drawn on a flat surface.
What is a map?