Vocabulary
Central Plains vs. Great Plains
Misc.
Changes
Farms, Ranches, and Cities
100
What is a kind of economy in which people own and run their own businesses with only limited control by the government?
What is Free Enterprise.
100
What is the main crop grown in the Central Plains?
What is corn.
100
What is a main result of a drought?
What are crops die.
100
What is the name of the person who invented the steel plow?
Who is John Deere.
100
What is another name for city life?
What is urban.
200
What is the spread of city life?
What is urbanization.
200
There were few or no trees in the Great Plains, which resulted in _________ houses.
What is sod.
200
What are the three names of severe weather found in the Midwest?
What are blizzards, tornado, and hailstorm.
200
What is the name of the machine used to cut down plants?
What is reaper.
200
Why did farmers depend on workers in the cities?
What is farmers would not have the goods and other supplies.
300
What is added to the soil to help crops grow?
What is fertilizer.
300
What region has prairie grasses that are tall and thick?
What is the Central Plains.
300
Why did settlers on the Great Plains have to learn new ways of building?
What is many houses were not built with wood and settlers had to change the kind of shelter they called home.
300
The two brothers built a machine used to separate the grain from the stems. What is the name of the machine?
What is thresher.
300
What did Spanish settlers bring to Mexico?
What is cattle and horses.
400
What is a graph that uses symbols to stand for numbers?
What is a pictograph.
400
Wheat is the crop that modified the lives of what region?
What is Great Plains.
400
How do people around the world use plains regions?
What is for farming, ranching, and cities.
400
What were iron plows not very good at?
What is turning over the prairie's thick sod.
400
What did people who lived and worked in cities and on farms and ranches all have in common?
What is interdependence.
500
What were skilled riders who lived on the Pampa called?
What are gauchos.
500
What is the main difference between the Central and Great Plains?
What is more precipitation in the Central Plains.
500
Why did pioneer families need to be self-sufficient?
What are farms were often a long way from a town and stores.
500
How did the railroads help the cattle industry?
What is cattle ranching spread north across the Great plains causing ranching to be a leading industry.
500
What did people in cities depend on farmers for?
What is to sell them food.
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