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| Adobe A brick or building material made of a sun-dried mixture of mud and straw. It is used a lot in Mexico and the Southwest for homes. |
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| This is an adobe brick. | Here is a movie on making adobe from Potato Days. | |
| Explanation of adobe and how it is used to build homes | ||
| Agriculture Working the soil (plowing, planting, fertilizing) , producing crops (growing fruits or vegetables), and raising livestock (animals: cattle, sheep): Farming |
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| Explanation of agriculture | ||
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| Some cattle grazing. This is an example of livestock. | A cow. This is the most common livestock raised in the Greeley area. | |
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| Corn. A crop grown near Greeley. | Haybales. Another crop grown in Weld County. | |
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| Butte a hill with steep sides standing in a flat area |
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Here is a picture of the Pawnee Buttes located near Greeley. | |
| Colony a group of similar (alike) people living together. |
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| Immigrant A person who moves to a new country to live. |
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| Irrigate To water an area by man-made (artificial) ways to grow crops or plants. Watering can be done by spreading, sprinkling, or dripping. Many places irrigate by digging a ditch for the water to run down between rows of crops. People irrigate because of the scarcity of natural percipitation. |
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| Explanation of irrigate and an irrigation ditch | ||
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| These are pictures of a couple of irrigation ditches in corn fields. The water is low because it is getting close to harvest. | ||
| Click on the picture on the left to see a short Quicktime Movie of the irrigation ditch. | ||
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| Here is one of the original (first) irrigation ditches in Greeley. This is the #3 ditch. It is dry because it is after harvest. | Here is a second picture of the #3 ditch. It is dry because it is after harvest. | |
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| Ditch #3 in spring. Notice how much more water is in the ditch for planting season. | Ditch #3 in spring. Notice how much more water is in the ditch for planting season. | |
| Here is a short movie of the #3 Ditch and some other irrigation ditches. | ||
| Massacre a brutal killing of people. |
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| Migrant A worker who moves from place to place during the seasons to work. Usually on farms. |
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Pioneer A Leader in a business, field, activity or endeavor |
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| Semi-arid An area with light rainfall. Precipitation is scarce. |
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| Temperance Drinking of alcohol (beer, wine, etc) is not allowed |
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| Utopia A perfect place |
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| Here is a Frayer inspired slideshow for a few of the words. May be best as a presentation by teacher. Once you click the play button, it is self-playing. |
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| Here are other social studies words to help understand Greeley. | ||
| urban city; large population (many people);dense population (people live close together without a lot of space) lots of man-made things: streets, buildings, railroads, factories, stores, schools |
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| Here is a panorama showing downtown Greeley on a late Sunday afternoon. It shows an urban area. | ||
| suburban smaller city or town close to a larger city; housing area, some shopping, not densely populated (People have space to live) |
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| Garden City is a suburb of Greeley. It is a much smaller town near the city of Greeley. | Here is where the border of Garden City meets the border of Greeley. | |
| rural farms; sparse population (few people); spread out; more land less man-made items |
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| Field in a rural area near Greeley | Explanation of rural | |
| Here is a panorama of Severence, Colorado. It is a rural area. | ||
| Goods are things to buy. You can touch and use a good. Goods are object based. Services are when people do things for you. Service is action based. Services use goods. | ||
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| You can make sugar from a sugar beet. You can pick it. It is an object. It is a good. | A sugar beet factory gives service. It takes the sugar beet (a good) and makes it into sugar which is an action. | Often a service business will make goods. This sugar is a good made by the factory as a service. |
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| You can use a cow for beef and dairy products. It is an object. It is a good. | JBS gives service. It takes cattle (a good) and makes it into beef for grocery stores to sell (another service). It is action based. | Often a service business will make goods. This ground beef is a good made by JBS as a service. |
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| This simple diagram shows the different goods and services needed to get sugar to our tables. | ||