Midwest
West
Living in the Midwest
Living in the South
Exploring the South
100
What is a dry, flat, grassland with few trees.
prairie
100
What supplies land with water?
irragation
100
A train that runs on a railway that is raised above the ground.
elevated train
100
What is a major center of activity?
hub
100
To change in order to survive in a new environment.
adapt
200
In what ways do businesses in the Midwest use rivers and waterways?
For transportation
200
What refers to heat from beneath Earth's crust?
geothermal
200
What is payment made for work?
wages
200
Any system for sending and receiving information.
communication
200
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
peninsula
300
Why did many immigrants settle in the Midwest?
to find religious freedom
300
What happened that formed the Rocky Mountains?
tectonic plates overlapped
300
What was one way Chicago's location helped it become a major trading center?
Nearby waterways were god for trade and transportation.
300
What is one reason that many companies have moved to the Upper South?
It has a mild climate
300
Why do many people visit the South during the winter?
They visit to avoid cold northern temperatures.
400
Some very large farms in the Midwest started as a small ________.
homestead
400
What landform in the West is used to irrigate millions of acres of farmland?
river
400
In what ways did people change the prairie of the Great Plains?
They used it to make farmland
400
What are two kinds of research done in the Lower South?
medicine and communication
400
Martin Luther King Jr. organized a bus________ in Montgomery, Alabama.
boycott
500
What were some of the goods that the American Indians wanted from Europeans?
knives and tools
500
What are the three major landforms found in the West?
mountains, deserts, valleys
500
What is the advantage of Chicago's elevated train?
It can carry many people through a city without blocking city traffic.
500
What makes Memphis an important business center?
It is a distribution hub
500
What factors control climate? (name all three)
latitude, elevation, and closeness to water.
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