Vocabulary
Land-forms
People
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100
To measure land is called:
Survey
100
What is drought and how can it affect areas?
Drought is a long period of little or no rain. It can ruin crops and hurt farmland. It can also dry up bodies of water where plants and animals live.
100
Most early settlers used this to build their homes:
Sod
100
This mineral is plentiful in the Midwest Region:
Iron Ore
100
In what ways do tornadoes affect the Midwest?
We have humid weather in the summer to cause them They often destroy everything in their path They can ruin farms, crops, homes, and factories.
200
A person who settles a place first is called:
A pioneer
200
What process formed the Great Lakes?
Moving and melting glaciers
200
Which inventor helped set up an assembly line in Detroit?
Henry Ford
200
This source can be found in South Dakota - it has been found around the Black Hills:
Gold
200
What is the capital of South Dakota?
Pierre
300
An area of flat rolling land is called:
a Prairie
300
This land-form is covered by grasses and flowers:
Prairie
300
A person who starts a new business is called:
An entrepreneur
300
True or False. The Midwest state Wisconsin is known as America's Dairyland
True
300
What is the capital of Wisconsin?
Madison
400
Where products are made quickly and more cheaply by using machines is called:
Mass production
400
Many tribes lived along these land-forms:
Rivers and Lakes
400
What were 3 ways in which Native Americans of the Great Plains used buffalo?
Food Shelter Clothing Tools
400
This Midwest City connected 10 major railroad lines:
Chicago
400
What is the capital of Kansas?
Topeka
500
A set of laws is called:
An Ordinance
500
What are the 5 Great Lakes?
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
500
What is a way that the Sioux adapted to living on the Great Plains?
They moved from place to place, following herds of buffalo.
500
Why were railroads an important growth of the Great Plains?
They proved an easier way for settlers to reach the Midwest
500
What is the capital of Michigan?
Lansing
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