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Rural Areas
Chapter3
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Rural Areas
An uncrowded place where towns
are far apart and surrounded fields,
other open lands and forests
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Reasons
•Enjoy peace and quite
•Their jobs are there
•Farming
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Modern
Communications
•Live far away from
others
•Talk on the telephone
•Send messages on the
computer
•Watch television, news
•All of the technology
also helps farming
businesses become
successful
•Farming communities
connected to the town
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Questions
1. Why is farming an important activity?
2. Describe an electronic device that
makes rural areas less isolated.
3. How do electronic devices help
farming businesses?
4. What is the definition of a rural area?
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Rural Towns
1.Several stores
2. Post office
3. Bank
4.Library
5.Hospital
6.School
7.church
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Community
Life
•Visit their neighbors in town
•Go to church
•Parade
•4-h fair
•Town is a community
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Making a
Living
•Some families have two jobs
•Fish
•Work on the farm
•Work in town
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Vocabulary
Hatchery- places
where eggs are
hatched
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Farm
Products
•Everything you see comes
from a farm
•Meat is raised on a farm
•Fruits and vegetables come
from a farm
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Growing Crops
• Cotton needs a lot of
rain
• Wheat needs a dry
climate
• Corn grows best in flat
lands with rich soil
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Farm at
work
•Today they are fewer farm jobs
than in the past
•Farming has changed due to
technology
•Technology has produced faster
and bigger machines
•So, fewer people are needed
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Questions
Why are rural areas
important?
How would you
describe a rural area?.
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Raising Fruits
Most farms were small
Now most farms are big
Now most farms grow one crop, and that
crop is sold
Different Kinds of Farms
Profit- the money gained in a business
after expenses have been subtracted
Have you seen any farms as you are
going on vacations?
Questions?
What does profit mean?
What is a rural area?
Farming in the central
Valley
Central Valley is located in California
Largest farming area in Rocky Mountains
Rich soil, hot climate, dry summers, long
growing season
Question
Where is Central Valley located?
By what mountain is Central Valley
loacated?
Rivers
Central valley has two major rivers to
supply water
Sacramento
San joajuin
water
Rivers are not enough water
Dams and canals were built to irrigate the
land
Irrigate means to supply with water
Harvesting Time
Every kind of crop is grown in Central
Valley
Machines are used to prepare the soil,
irrigate the field, and harvest the crop
Many fruits and vegetables still
Need to be picked by hand
Harvesting Time
A lot of work is done by migrant workers
Picking vegetables and fruit by hand is
hardwork
Cattle
Not everything on a farm is fresh
vegetables and fruits
Farmers raise livestock
Cattle is used for meat and milk
Cattle
California is the largest milk-producing
state
Dairy Farming
Dairy cows are cows that produce milk
There a 10 million dairy cows in the
United States
Cows graze in pastures
Dairy Pastures
Pastures are grassy fields
Cows eat 50 pounds of food a day and
15 gallons of water a day
Dairy cows produce 1,800 gallons of milk
a single year
Dairy Products
Dairy Products are products made from
milk
Butter, cheese, yogurt
Milk to Cow
Milking the Cow
Twice a day machines milk a cow
Machine runs through a pipe to a tank to
keep cold
Milking
Step two
The milk is checked for high quality
Then loaded into a refrigerated truck
Then taken to a dairy, a place where it is
prepared to be sold
Milking the Cow
Step 3
Testing and Packaging
Tested and heated to kill germs, and then
put into containers
Cow to you
Dairy to store to you
Milk products are taken from the dairy
and delivered to stores
Now you can buy them
Life on a Ranch
Ranches- a large farm where cattle,
sheep, or horses are raised
Sheep and cattle need a lot of space to
roam and they eat a lot of food each day!
Ranches are in Midwest..Kansas and
Nebraska…Texas..Southwest
Question
What is a ranch?
What animals do you find on a ranch?
In what states would you find a ranch?
Ranching in Texas
Texas raises the most beef cattle and
sheep
Texas is covered by grassy plains
Plateau is a large raised area of flat land
Questions
What is a ranch?
What state has the biggest ranch? Why?
What is a plateau?
Jobs on a ranch
Sheep must get a good diet
Sheep eat hay
Protect sheep from coyotes or wolves
Sheep need to be sheared
Jobs on a ranch
Need to shear a sheep
Then pack the wool to the factory
Need to herd the sheep, sometimes use
dogs
Herding Sheep
Dogs can help herd sheep
Sheep dogs can separate a sick sheep
from the flock
Dogs listen to whistle sounds and hand
signals
Questions
What are some jobs on a ranch?
Why do ranchers use dogs?
What is a ranch?
What states would you find ranches?
From Sheep to Sweater?
Step 1 Shearing or cutting the wool off
the sheep
It is like a haircut
From Sheep to Sweater
Step 2 The wool is sent to a factory to be
weighed, sorted, and washed.
Then the wool is dyed and untangled.
Finally it is ready to be spun
Sheep to Sweater
Spinning twists the wool into yarn
The yarn is ready to be knit
Sheep to sweater
Knitting is done by hand or by large
machines in a factory
You can make many different clothing by
knitting
Questions
What are some animals that may be
raised on ranches?
What work does a sheep dog do?
Fishing Around The World
For millions of years we catch fish for
food
In Japan and Norway, fish are the main
source of food
Coast or edges of continents
Fishing
Types of fish cod, shrimp, and red
snapper live near the ocean floor
Trawls are nets shaped like funnels with
one end closed, they drag the nets to the
ocean floor
Fishing
There are fish near the ocean floor
Fishers use seine
Seines are cast out by boats called
seiners
Seines are nets that is used to catch fish
near the surface of the water
Questions
In what parts of the ocean are most fish
caught?
What kind of boat is a trawler?
Answers
Along the coast or edges of the
continents
A fishing boat that catches fish by
dragging a net along the ocean floor