MOVEMENT

​Social Studies

​T2, week 01

​Sunday 5th.Dec.2021

​MOVEMENT

(Modes of transportation and communication)

​Unit 3, Lesson 5

​by Ms. Hafsa

People, goods and ideas move from one place to another is referred to as MOVEMENT

​Movement include transportation and communication

​1. TRANSPORTATION

For the development of civilization, it is essential to enable trade between people, and for that, transportation is vital.

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• ​There are FOUR modes of transportation.

1. ​Road Transport

2. ​Rail Transportation

3. ​Air Transportation

4. ​Water transportations

​1. Road Transportation:

​It is the dominant form of transportation. It includes the use of a road. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel. Other road users have buses, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles.

​2. Rail Transportation:

​A train runs along with a set of two parallel street rails known as a railway or railroad.

Intercity trains are long-haul services connecting cities. Modern high-speed can require up to 350km/h, but this requires a specially built track.

​3. Air Transportation:

​A revolution reduces the time needed to travel great distances by using airplanes or helicopters.

​4. Water Transportation:

​it is a movement through watercraft, such as a barge, boat, ship sailboat or freight ship over a body of water like a sea, ocean, lake, canal and river.

​Freight ships are special ships designed to carry goods across the ocean.

​Communication:

​Information from one place to another through the internet. People, by nature, need to communicate with each other.

​Thus, communication is the exchange of information between individuals, for example, by means of speaking, writing or using a common system of signs or behaviour.

​Nowadays, social media is connecting people from all over the world.

Multiple Choice

How many transportation modes are there?

• Two

• Five

• Four

• Six