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Communities:Communities:Communities:Communities: Fun FactsFun Facts Alike and DifferentAlike and DifferentAlike and DifferentAlike and Different • The first subway system in the United States• The first subway system in the United States by Donna Foleyby Donna Foley was built in Boston.was built in Boston. • New York City has the highest population• New York City has the highest population in the United States.in the United States. • Most cities have at least one daily• Most cities have at least one daily newspaper.newspaper. ComprehensionComprehension GenreGenre Text FeatureText Feature SkillSkill Nonfi ctionNonfi ction Context and PictureContext and Picture GlossaryGlossary CluesClues Scott Foresman Social StudiesScott Foresman Social Studies ì<(sk$m)=beiajh<ì<(sk$m)=beiajh<ISBNISBN 0-328-14809-10-328-14809-1 +^-Ä-U-Ä-U+^-Ä-U-Ä-U
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In this book you will read about different communities. You will explore Write to It! what communities might have in common and what might make them different. Communities:Communities:Describe your favorite kind of community. How is it the same Vocabulary Alike and DifferentAlike and Differentand different from where you live community now? Write one paragraph aboutby Donna Foley urban your ideas. suburb rural Write your paragraph on another sheet of paper. Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. ISBN: 0-328-14809-1 Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is Background (Bkgd) protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission Opener: PhotoEdit; 1 PhotoEdit; 2 Thinkstock, Getty Royalty; 3 Index Stock Imagery; in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or 4 PhotoEdit; 5 Corbis; 6 Index Stock Imagery; 7 Stone/Getty Images; 8 Robert Harding likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Picture Library; 9 PhotoEdit; 10 PhotoEdit; 11 PhotoEdit; 12 Index Stock Imagery; Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York 13 Image Bank/Getty Images; 14 Superstock; 15 Corbis Sales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts • Duluth, Georgia • Glenview, Illinois 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Coppell, Texas • Ontario, California • Mesa, Arizona
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Communities are alike and different in many ways. Communities are made up of neighborhoods, or places where people live and work together. Some communities have different neighborhoods crowded into small areas. Each community uses land differently and creates neighborhoods for the people living there. There are three types of communities. Urban communities have a city. A city is a very large community with many different neighborhoods close together. Urban neighborhoods are crowded and have many buildings. Some urban neighborhoods have their own identity, such as Chinatown or Little Italy. Other urban neighborhoods have many businesses. People usually live in apartment buildings in urban neighborhoods. Urban communities bring many different types of cultures together. 2 3
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Rural communities have a lot of open Suburbs are communities near cities. space. Rural communities are very spread They have houses for families to live in. out over the land. Many rural areas have Many people who work in the city live farms with land to grow crops or raise in the suburbs. A suburb is sometimes animals. People in rural communities called a town. A suburb usually has a usually live and work on farms. There are town center with places to shop. There not many shops in rural communities. may be many neighborhoods around the People usually have to drive to town town center. to shop. 4 5
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In suburban communities, people live in neighborhoods with many houses near each other. They can walk to their neighbor’s house for a visit. Their houses usually have trees and yards around them. Some families plant flowers or vegetable gardens. There is land to grow all kinds of things. In urban communities, people live in neighborhoods that have lots of apartment buildings. Many people and families live in each apartment building. People sometimes walk down the hall to visit their neighbors. Families usually do not have their own yards. In urban neighborhoods some families make small gardens on their balconies by planting flowers and vegetables in flower boxes. 6 7
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In rural communities there is usually In urban communities, neighborhoods a lot of room between houses. Neighbors are very crowded and busy. There are may not live close to one another. People many stores and restaurants in urban sometimes need to drive if they want to neighborhoods. People shop near their visit a neighbor. apartments and can sometimes walk to the market to buy food. Urban communities also have many cultural centers and parks. People can visit museums and libraries. 8 9
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In suburban communities the town center may be a meeting place for people. People usually walk or drive a short distance to the town center. People go to town to shop. There may be a market, small shops, and a few restaurants. Families and friends meet to spend time together. There are also shopping malls near the suburbs. The shopping malls have many types of stores. People go to shopping malls to buy things they cannot find in town. In rural communities the town center is very small. People need to drive to town. There is usually a market and only a few shops. There are a few meeting places for friends and families. In rural communities, families and friends spend more time together at home. People need to visit bigger towns and cities to shop, eat out, or visit a museum. 10 11
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In suburban communities many people use cars for transportation. Streets in suburban communities have less traffic than city streets, so it is easier to drive from place to place. Other people ride bicycles or walk. There are also buses in suburban communities, but there are usually fewer buses than in urban communities. Suburbs have many buses in the morning and late afternoon. People use these buses to get to work and school. Many people in suburbs live far from In urban communities, people move where they work. Many people work in quickly from place to place. Many people a city near their town. Many towns have use public transportation. People take train stations. People take the trains to buses or subways to travel to places in the city. the city. In urban neighborhoods many people walk and may not drive a car. Their neighborhoods are too crowded for parking spaces. Driving in the city can be slow because there is a lot of traffic. 12 13
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In rural communities, people use cars to travel from place to place. People usually live too far away from places to walk. Some people ride bicycles. Buses usually do not travel from neighborhood to neighborhood in rural communities. People can take a bus from the town center to other towns or to the city. There are usually only a few buses that run each day. People may have to Communities are the same in many plan their travel around the bus schedule. ways. Some have neighborhoods with people and families. People live, work, and travel in communities. People are often connected to one another in their communities. Communities are different in many ways. Communities use land differently for neighborhoods. Some communities have neighborhoods with many people. Some communities have neighborhoods with people living near each other and working in other communities. Communities are special places to live! 14 15
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GlossaryIn this book you will read about different communities. You will explore Write to It! what communities might have in common and what might make them different.community a place that is made up of Describe your favorite kind of many neighborhoods community. How is it the same ruralVocabularyan area with small communities and different from where you live and open spacecommunity now? Write one paragraph about urban your ideas. suburbsuburba type of community that is located near a cityrural Write your paragraph on another sheet urban an area that has a city of paper. Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. ISBN: 0-328-14809-1 Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is Background (Bkgd) protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission Opener: PhotoEdit; 1 PhotoEdit; 2 Thinkstock, Getty Royalty; 3 Index Stock Imagery; in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or 4 PhotoEdit; 5 Corbis; 6 Index Stock Imagery; 7 Stone/Getty Images; 8 Robert Harding likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Picture Library; 9 PhotoEdit; 10 PhotoEdit; 11 PhotoEdit; 12 Index Stock Imagery; Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 13 Image Bank/Getty Images; 14 Superstock; 15 Corbis 161 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05
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