Vocabulary
Tour Sites 1-3
Tour Sites 4-6
Tour Sites 7 -9
Misc.
100
Flat land covered in grasses and wildflowers
What is the prairie?
100
The city known as the "Gateway to the West"
What is St. Louis, Missouri?
100
Who the statues carved into the Black Hills at Mt. Rushmore National Memorial honor?
Who are great American Presidents? (Jefferson, Washington, Roosevelt, and Lincoln)
100
This city has become a major transportation hub
What is Chicago, Illinois?
100
Storms that bring heavy snowfall and freezing winds to the Midwest?
What are blizzards?
200
A region of wild country, unexplored by Europeans
What is the frontier?
200
What Iowa has that makes it a good place to farm
What is fertile soil?
200
Help ships travel between different levels of the Great Lakes
What are the Soo Locks?
200
The second oldest baseball park in America
What is Wrigley Field?
200
A way to organize information that you have researched (They gave an example in the text)
What is a timeline?
300
Animals, like cattle or hogs, that are raised on farms
What is livestock?
300
A major crop grown in Iowa
What is corn?
300
Ford's invention that allowed cars to be made in a shorter time
What is the assembly line?
300
One of the busiest airports in the United States that is located in the Midwest
What is O'Hare International Airport?
300
North Dakota farmers grow a lot of this crop
What is wheat?
400
An area or building where animals are kept
What is a feedlot?
400
An important industry in the Midwest where meat is prepared for sale
What is meatpacking?
400
These are part of a water highway that stretches from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean
What are the Great Lakes?
400
The largest indoor shopping mall in the United States
What is the Mall of America?
400
An important product in Wisconsin
What is milk and milk products? (Dairy Farms)
500
Public land set aside for American Indians
What is a reservation?
500
Long been famous for wheat and cowboys
What is Kansas?
500
Detroit, Michigan's nickname
What is Motor City or Motown?
500
How long it would take to visit all of the 500+ stores in the Mall of America if you spent 10 minutes in each one
What is 4 days and three nights?
500
Ways that the automobile industry changed during WWII
What is auto companies made tanks and planes instead of new cars?
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