Virtual Worlds Worksheet #11
Transportation and Communication

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Key Concepts: Transportation routes are critical to your world’s economic well-being.  Goods must reach their destinations as quickly as possible.  Large cities, important waterways, and seaports must be linked with major agricultural and industrial areas.  Keep this in mind when thinking about your world’s transportation system.

Communication allows people to exchange information. Today we have many means of communication available to us.

Think About:

1. Why is it important for cities to have access to good transportation routes?
2. Why is it important to have access to good transportation routes?
3. What are some of the main means of transportation in the US?
4. What are the advantages of rail transportation? Air? Highways? Waterways?
5. What are our means of communication today?
6. Do you think a good communication system is important in your world?
7. What are some of the things that might happen if people had no adequate means of communication?
8. What are some of the ways people communicated 300 years ago?

Answer the questions in the space provided:

When did the first people arrive in your world? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Where did they come from? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why did they leave their original settlement and migrate to your world? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Assignment:  Do the front page of your world’s daily newspaper using a table in Word.