Vocabulary
Farming
Industry
Famous Sites
Wild Card
100
Transportation Hub
What is a place that moves goods and services?
100
The crops the Midwest provides.
What is corn and wheat?
100
A famous industry located in Kansas.
What is meatpacking?
100
A monument to honor our former presidents.
What is Mt. Rushmore?
100
A way to produce products quickly.
What is mass production?
200
Frontier
What is the beginning of unexplored land?
200
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan
Which states produce the most dairy?
200
Where cowboys and cattle roam.
What is Dodge City?
200
The longest locks in the world.
What are Michigan's Soo Locks?
200
Pioneers first settled the West. They started the journey from St. Louis that got this nickname in return.
What is the "Gateway to the West"?
300
Prairie
What is flat or rolling land?
300
Iowa is sandwiched between these two rivers.
What are the Missouri and Mississippi rivers?
300
I invented the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
A gleaming piece of stainless steel that rises 630 feet above the Mississippi River.
What is the St. Louis Arch?
300
The capital of South Dakota?
What is Pierre?
400
Reservation
What is land set aside for Native Americans?
400
The reasons that Iowa has such good farm land.
What is fertile soil, prairie land, and good transportation?
400
Motor City or Motown for short.
What is Detroit Michigan?
400
The second oldest ballpark in America. Babe Ruth's famous "called shot".
What is Chicago's Wrigley Field?
400
The Missouri and Mississippi rivers meet just north of this city.
What is St. Louis?
500
Assembly Line
What is a process in which each worker does one part of a job before passing it on to the next worker?
500
Farmers grow a lot of wheat we use to make bread. This is how the Midwest earned the nickname.
What is America's Breadbasket?
500
The Midwest is a center for both farming and industry. A reason for one this nickname.
What is America's Heartland?
500
Brrr! There's a blizzard in Minnesota. I'm so glad I am protected by this so I can go shopping and stay comfortable.
What is The Mall of America?
500
Man, we are pretty GREAT, even when things get a little WET.
What is Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
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