Words to Know
This is something new or different that helps people.
What is an innovation
Long ago, people rode these animals to travel.
What are horses?
This device lets you talk to someone in another town or state.
What is a telephone?
True or False: People used cars and airplanes long ago.
False
This invention helped people travel not only across the country but to other countries as well quickly.
What is the airplane?
This word means how people move from one place to another.
What is transportation?
This vehicle can fly in the sky and take people far away?
What is an airplane?
This invention lets people learn, talk, and play almost anywhere.
What is the internet?
Which came first: The telegraph or the internet?
What is the telegraph?
The telephone helped people do this: ____ with others far away.
What is talk?
This is the number of people living in a place.
What is population?
These rolled on tracks and helped towns grow along their paths.
What are railroads?
Before phones, people used this to send short messages using wires.
What is a telegraph?
What do people use today instead of covered wagons?
What are cars or airplanes?
Why did people want better ways to travel or share ideas?
To make life easier, faster, to solve problems.
This word means a way to send messages or share ideas.
What is communication?
This kind of boat was used on rivers a long time ago.
What is a steamboat?
Name one way communication is faster today than long ago.
What is... texting, calling, emailing, the internet.
What is one way life today is easier than long ago?
What is: Faster travel, faster talking, more jobs, larger community.
This transportation made transporting goods to the whole country quicker than by wagon.
What is the railroads or trains?
This is a place where people live, work, and play.
What is a community?
Name one way transportation has changed the way people live.
Name two ways people used to communicate before cell phones.
What are: Telegraphs, radio, letters, telephone
People connected to the operator and asked to be connected to their friends using this invention.
What is the telephone?
These landforms made travel harder and slower to travel.
What are mountains or rivers?