Social Studies Notes- Chapter 1, Lesson 5

Family,

Here are the social studies notes from last week:

• Important Terms
• Transportation- how people or goods moves from one place to another
• Communication- the ways and tools that people use to send information to one another
• Infrastructure- Forms of transportation and communication
• Network- a system of connected parts that work together
• Port- a place where ships dock to load or unload goods or merchandise
• Cargo- Goods and merchandise transported by ship, truck, boat, or airplane
• Why were the first settlements near water, such as oceans or rivers? 
• Water was a means to get from place to place by boat. At first, there were no roads. 
• It was easier to to travel and trade on water.
• What were some types of transportation that developed before the invention of airplanes?
• Railroads 
• Gasoline-powered automobiles 
• Horse-drawn wagons
• Carriages 
• Trains 
• Boats
• Why did roads become necessary? 
• Waterways were not always available or usable where people needed to go. Settlements spread out across the land, and people needed ways to connect these settlements. 
• How did railroads change transportation?
• They were faster than horse drawn wagons. There were more railroad tracks that went farther distances than roads. 
• What was the common change in each form of transportation as it was developed? 
• Each form of new transportation was faster and could go farther than the previous form. 
• How does the Chesapeake Bay Bridge make travel faster between the eastern and western shores? 
• The Chesapeake Bay Bridge makes it faster and easier to travel over the Chesapeake Bay instead of crossing the bay on a ferry.
• Why was building the national road an important accomplishment? 
• It was the first federal road in the united states. 
• The road opened new areas for settlement.
• Why is the college park airport so important? 
• The college park airport is important because it is the oldest operating airport in the nation. 
• Why did people need a national road? 
• The road opened new areas for settlement. 
• It was built through unsettled land when there was not big road-building machines to help with the work. 
• Why did people lose interest in the national road? 
• The rapid growth in railroads caused people to lose interest in the national road. 
• What was invented first, the radio or the telephone? 
• The telephone was invented first.
• What skills would a telegraph operator need? 
• A telegraph operator would need to know how to use the machine and how to read incoming messages.
• What was the sequence (order) of ways developed to send messages in the 1800s? 
• Letters and newspapers 
• Morse Code 
• Telephone
• How many years was it between the invention of the telephone and the first cell phone? 
• It took 107 years.
• How many years was it between invention of the first cell phone and the sale of the first smart phone? 
• It took 10 years.
• How long did it take for the world wide web to launch after the invention of the internet? 
• It took 20 years