What is the acronym (special word) that helps us to remember the names of the Great Lakes?
What is "HOMES?"
100
What is the name of another region that can be found in the Midwest Region?
The Great Lakes Region
100
What is specialization?
Each worker on an assembly line does a specific job over and over and becomes an expert at it.
100
Name two factors that pushed people away from a place into the Midwest Region.
What is scarce land in home country, political or religious problems, revolutions and poverty.
100
A market economy encourages.....
What is competition?
200
What is a market economy?
When buyers and sellers interact.
200
Name a characteristic that the Midwest Region and the Southeast Region both share.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
Name one of the cons associated with assembly lines.
Workers can get bored, high turnover of employees (they quit), less satisfaction so products are not high quality.
200
Name two of the pull factors that attracted people to the Midwest.
What is promise of religious freedom, hope for a new life, industry (jobs), cheap land, abundant natural resources.
200
What could Meijer do to get you to buy groceries from them instead of from Wal-Mart?
Give discounts, sales, coupons, stay open late...
300
People who pay for goods and services.
What are consumers (or buyers)?
300
Name a major landform that is part of the Midwest Region.
What is the Great Plains?
300
What was Henry Ford's great contribution to the market economy?
He created the assembly line.
300
What was a result of building the Erie Canal?
People were able to migrate and establish settlements in the Midwest Region.
300
What would be the result of competition between two restaurants, like McDonalds and Burger King?
Lower prices for the consumer.
400
Money that is earned.
What is income?
400
Name all five of the Great Lakes.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior?
400
What are workers on the assembly line called?
Specialized workers
400
How did the car impact the lives of people in the Midwest Region?
They could work in the city live in the country.
400
Everyone wants to buy a new video game that was just released last week. What would happen if stores were only allowed to sell 10 copies of the new game?
Higher prices.
500
Name something that a market economy encourages.
competition, new ideas, the beginning of new businesses
500
What man-made waterway took 8 years to build and cost 7 million dollars?
Erie Canal
500
How does specialization affect productivity?
Workers can make more products so productivity increases.
500
What is migration?
Moving from one place to another.
500
How did Henry Ford's creation of the assembly line, specialization and division of labor affect the production of the Model T?