Land and Water
Area of the Great Plains that are very dry and useless for farming
What are the badlands?
Nickname of the part of the midwest that gets so many tornados
What is Tornado Alley?
Nickname for the midwest due to so much farming
What is America's Breadbasket?
Famous mall that has an amusement park and more than 520 stores
What is Mall of America?
a small shelter built by fishermen to give protection from the wind and snow while ice fishing
What is an ice shanty?
General name of the large bodies of water that are in the midwest
What are the Great Lakes?
Two types of severe weather that the Midwest experiences in the spring
What are tornados and hailstorms?
Resource from the Midwest that is used to make cars and trucks
What is steel?
The four faces carved into Mount Rushmore
Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?
Style of pizza which has a crust up to three inches tall and large amounts of cheese and chunky tomato sauce and toppings that many midwesterners like to eat
What is Chicago-style pizza?
Covers most of the land in the Central Plains
What are Prairie Grasses?
Type of severe weather during the winter in the Midwest
What are snow storms, ice storms, and blizzards?
Two important crops in the Midwest
The Lakota Native American chief a monument in South Dakota is named after
Who was Crazy Horse?
Three popular winter sports in the Midwest.
What are snow skiing, ice skating, snowmobiling, and ice fishing?
River that runs for 2,300 miles through the Central Plains all the way to the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
Reason why people in the midwest have basements and storm cellars
What are tornados?
What Wisconsin is known for because of their farms that raise animals
What is Dairy (milk, butter, cheese)?
The monument built to honor pioneers heading west from Saint Louis Missouri
What is the Gateway Arch?
Three types of warm weather outside entertainment in the Midwest
What are horseback riding, fishing, hunting, water skiing, and watching the Indianapolis 500?
The longest river in North America
What is the Missouri River?
Reason why the Son Locks are closed in the winter
What is ice on the Great Lakes?
The three "belts" of the Midwest
What are Corn Belt, Wheat Belt, and Dairy Belt?
The city which has always been an important center for business, manufacturing, and transportation because of it's location near waterways
What is Chicago Illinois?
Two types of music which came from the Midwest region