The Midwest is the ____________ (driest, flattest, most fertile, windiest) region in the United States
What is the driest region?
100
a popular architect from the Great Lake States
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
100
The Plains States are (more crowded, less crowded) than the Great Lake States.
What is less crowded, or open?
200
the head of the legislative branch
What is Congress?
200
a large boat with a flat bottom
What is a barge?
200
caused the formation of the Great Lakes.
What are melting glaciers?
200
how goods are shipped from the Midwest to the rest of the United States.
What are waterways?
200
the Plains States base for making money
What is farming?
300
the head of the judicial branch
What is the Supreme Court?
300
building styles
What is architecture?
300
the six Great Lake States
What are Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota?
300
The Great Lake States manufacture more goods than any other region because
What are the Great Lakes?
Explanation: Cities around the Great Lakes are attractive places to produce goods because they can send ship the goods to other states on the water.
300
crops grown in the Plains States.
What are corn, wheat, barley, flax, sunflowers, soybeans?
400
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the legislative branch?
400
drought
What is a long period of time with no rain?
400
the six Plains States
What are Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa.
400
The reason there are larger cities in the Great Lake States
What are transportation hubs and manufacturing sites?
400
the shift of people from rural areas (farmland) to cities
What is urbanization?
500
This branch of government carries out laws.
What is the executive branch?
500
urbanization
What is the shift of people from rural areas to cities?
500
The Great Lakes. (hint: HOMES)
What are Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior?