Great Plains
Great Plains 2
Farming/Ranching
Plains Today
Plains2
100
an area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with wildflowers and grasses
What is a prairie?
100
a cone-shaped tent made of poles and covered with animal skins
What is a tepee?
100
A person who sets up a new business.
What is an entrepreneur?
100
Prairie soil is naturally this.
What is fertile because when prairie grasses they leave nutrients behind.
100
A fall in a demand for a good or service often leads to a fall in this.
What is supply?
200
a layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses
What is sod?
200
This was used to build houses.
What is sod?
200
Rows of large trees or brushes planted between fields to help block the wind and prevent soil erosion
What is a windbreak?
200
the preparing of meat for the market
What is meat packing?
200
Less people live on farms today more than
What is ever before?
300
able to do everything for oneself, with no help from other people
What is self-sufficient?
300
These are known as the Central Plains States.
What are Iowa and Missouri?
300
These two were the two largest crops in the Plains region
What are corn and wheat?
300
a product or service that a business offers for sale
What is supply?
300
allows farmers to grow and gather crops faster and easier
What is iron plows?
400
to change in order to make more useful, such as fitting one’s way of living into a new environment
What is adapt?
400
the government passed this to encourage people to settle on the Great Plains
What is the Homestead Act in 1862?
400
The growth of the proportion of people living in cities compared with that of people in rural areas
What is urbanization?
400
a person who buys a product or service
What is a consumer?
400
helps farmers grow larger crops
What are technologies such as fertilizers and chemicals to kill weeds and insects?
500
These are known as the Great Plains States.
What is Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota?
500
These Native Americans settled in North Dakota and South Dakota during the 1600’s
Who are the Sioux?
500
a desire for a good or service by people who are willing to pay for it
What is demand?
500
a kind of economy in which people own and run their own businesses with only limited control by the government
What is free enterprise?
500
These are larger today than they were in the past and produce more crops than ever.
What are farms?
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