Great Lakes
Vocabulary
State Capitals
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Miscellaneous Midwest
100
This Great Lake is NOT located in the Midwest region.
What is Lake Ontario?
100
This is the process by which water and wind wear away rock.
What is erosion?
100
The capital of Michigan
What is Lansing?
100
The capital of the state where Mount Rushmore is located.
What is Pierre (South Dakota)?
100
You would not see many of these growing on the prairies.
What are trees?
200
This is how the Great Lakes formed millions of years ago.
What is the melting of glaciers.
200
This is a time of little or no rain.
What is a drought?
200
The capital of the Buckeye state. (wink to Liam)
What is Columbus?
200
The capital of the state that the NFL Vikings represent.
What is St. Paul (Minnesota)?
200
Farmers who live in the Central Plains grow this CROP because it gets enough rain to grow well there.
What is corn? (CORN BELT REGION)
300
These are flat-bottomed boats that transport goods on the Great Lakes.
What are barges?
300
This is the trading of fur for other items.
What is fur trade?
300
The capital of the Hawkeye state
What is Des Moines (Iowa)?
300
The capital of the STATE is named after President Thomas Jefferson.
What is Missouri( Jefferson City)?
300
These two midwestern cities began as forts and trading posts.
What are Chicago and Sault St. Marie?
400
This connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence Seaway and the St. Lawrence River?
400
This is a type of store where people buy and sell goods.
What is a trading post?
400
The capital of the "Wizard of Oz" state
What is Topeka (Kansas)?
400
The capital of this dairy STATE is also named after a president.
What is Madison, WISCONSIN?
400
This man helped the farmers plow the tough prairie sod with his invention.
Who was John Deere?
500
These are the names of the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Superior?
500
This is a region of dry hills and sharp cliffs located in Nebraska and South Dakota.
What is the Badlands?
500
The capital of NORTH Dakota
What is Bismarck?
500
Homer Simpson lives in this capital city in Illinois.
What is Springfield?
500
President Jefferson wanted to find a water route to the West to do this.
What is to expand trade?
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