Glossary
These are words that are important to Greeley's history. Click on a word to hear it pronounced. |
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. |
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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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Farming fields |
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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. |
Immigrant
A person who moves to a new country to live. |
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. |
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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. |
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Here is a short movie of the #3 Ditch and some other irrigation ditches. |
Massacre
a brutal killing of people. |
Migrant
A worker who moves from place to place during the seasons to work. Usually on farms. |
Pioneer
One
of the first people to settle in an area
A Leader in a business, field, activity or endeavor |
Semi-arid
An area with light rainfall. Precipitation is scarce. |
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 |
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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. |
Goods |
Services |
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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. |