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Communities
Rural, Urban, and Suburban Communities
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Farming | the job of working on the land, producing crops, and raising livestock |
| Community | a place where people live, work, or have fun together |
| commute | to travel from home to work and back |
| country | the open rural area outside of big towns and cities; or land of a person's birth, residence, or citizenship; or a nation or it's territory |
| crops | plants used as food that can be grown and harvested |
| density | number of people living together in one area |
| downtown | an area where the main businesses are |
| farm | a piece of land used for growing crops and raising livestock |
| high-rise | very tall building |
| home | the house in which a person or family lives |
| livestock | farm animals kept for use or raised to sell |
| neighbor | a person who lives close to another in any community |
| neighborhood | an area in a community where people live near one another |
| public transportation | ways to travel that are organized and that everybody can use |
| rural | community with open land, few buildings and businesses, and few people |
| social group | a group of community members who come together to share common interests |
| skyscrapers | very tall buildings |
| suburb | a community outside of the city where people live in neighborhoods with individual houses or small apartment houses |
| subway | trains that can run underground |
| town house | a house connected to the next house by a common side wall |
| tradition | a special way of doing something that is passed down overtime |
| transportation | a way of moving people or things from one place to another |
| urban | a city community with a lot of tall buildings; a community in which people live that is larger or more crowded than a town |