Great Lakes States
Plains States
Critical Thinking
100
A center of activity.
What is a hub?
100
The shift of people to cities from rural areas.
What is urbanization?
200
This shipped freights, or transported goods, across rivers and lakes.
What is a barge?
200
Name one way that Plains states farms are different than they were 100 years ago.
What is better technology, bigger or more land, more crops to plant.
300
Frank Lloyd Wright is famous for his work in this field: architecture, literature, entertainment, or medicine.
What is architecture?
300
This part of the Plains states is mountainous.
What is the Ozark Plateau?
300
How did immigrants affect culture in the Midwest?
They brought different religions, languages, food, music, and other traditions to the area.
400
The state that has the largest Arab American community in the United States.
What is Michigan?
400
This industry depends on the Midwest's farms and ranches.
What is food processing?
400
What are three kinds of transportation that make many cities in the Great Lakes region hubs?
What is land, air, and water transportation
500
The year many African Americans migrated to the cities in the Midwest.
What is 1910?
500
The person known for painting the rural areas of the Midwest.
Who is Thomas Hart Benton?
500
How has technology changed agriculture in the past 100 years?
Harvest and grow crops in less time, computers to plan their farm work, make farms bigger, and need less workers.
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