Natural Resources
Key Vocabulary
Key Vocabulary 2
People & Government
Miscellaneous
100
A mineral that is most prevalent in the Midwest.
What is Iron Ore?
100
An extended period with little or no rain.
What is a drought?
100
A shift of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
100
This man is famous for his prairie style architecture.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
100
This type of transportation provided an easier and faster way for settlers to reach the Midwest.
What are railroads?
200
The most important resource of the Native Americans living on the Great Plains.
What are buffalo?
200
When people or animals move from one place to another.
What is migration?
200
This process depends on farms and ranches to grow the crops and raise the livestock.
What is food processing?
200
This man helped set up an assembly line in Detroit in 1913 at his factory.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
In this Midwest city, 10 major railroad lines connected.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
300
These provide 1/5 th of the nation's fresh water supply and were formed from melting and moving glaciers.
What are the Great Lakes?
300
Someone who starts a business on their own.
What is an entrepreneur?
300
An industry that works to help and serve other people.
What is a service industry?
300
A set of laws and rules that told how the Northwest Territory's government would work.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
These were smaller 100 years ago than they are today.
What are farms?
400
The Sioux used this resource to build their homes.
What is sod?
400
The center of activity in a large city.
What is a hub?
400
When products are produced more quickly and cheaper by using machines.
What is mass production?
400
When the United States bought a large amount of land from France, nearly doubling the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
400
The main way people use this type of transportation is to transport goods on rivers and lakes.
What are barges?
500
This landform is mostly covered with grasses and flowers that can be used for various purposes.
What is a praire?
500
Spreading of large cities into outlying rural areas.
What is urban sprawl?
500
When people have to do almost everything for themselves.
What is self-sufficient?
500
This law gave land to anyone over 21 that agreed to settle the land for at least 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
These bodies of water formed the Northwest Territory.
What are the Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Great Lakes?
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