Glossary

1. Glossary

2. agriculture the job of working on the land, producing crops, and/or raising livestock

3. community a place where people live, work, or have fun together

4. commute to travel from home to work and back

5. country the open rural area outside of big towns and cities; or the land of a person’s birth, residence, or citizenship; or a nation or its territory

6. crops plants used as food that can be grown and harvested

7. density number of people living together in one area

8. downtown an area where the main businesses of a city or town are

9. farm a piece of land used for growing crops or raising livestock

10. high-rise very tall building

11. home the place in which a person or family lives

12. livestock farm animals kept for use or raised to sell

13. metropolitan area an area that includes a city and its surroundings

14. neighbor a person who lives close to another in any community

15. neighborhood an area in a community where people live near one another

16. public transportation ways of travel that are organized and that everybody can use

17. rural community with open land, few buildings and businesses, and few people

18. skyscrapers very tall buildings

19. social group a group of community members who come together to share common interests

20. suburb a community just outside of a city

21. subway trains that can run underground

22. townhouses more than one house connected to each other

23. tradition a special way of doing something that is passed down over time from generation to generation

24. 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

25. transportation a way of moving people or things from one place to another