Climate
What is a drought?
A long period of little or no rain
What are 2 states that are in the Midwest region?
Answers may vary, check with teacher to see if correct.
What were the 2 different types of boats used?
Flatboat and a steamboat
What were the 2 main crops grown in the Midwest?
Corn and Wheat
What ocean does the Midwest border?
Trick Question! None! The only major water sources in the Midwest are lakes and rivers.
False
Name one river that is located in the Midwest
Ex: Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio...
How did people get around before trains
They walked, rode horse or oxen, or they traveled by ship
Cattle is a very important part of the Midwest? What is cattle?
Cows!
What are the 2 main types of extreme weather the Midwest has?
Tornadoes (wind) and droughts (the dust bowl)
True or False? The Dust Bowl was a small event and people continued to carry-on living life normally.
False! People had to wear cloths to keep dirt/dust out of their mouth, nose, and eyes, the dust was so bad it caused people to become ill and possibly die, and it caused many to uproot their lives and move!
What is the main landform in the Midwest?
plains
Why did automobiles change transportation so greatly?
They made it easier and faster to get from one place to another (for people and for goods)
Was corn the main crop of the central plains or great plains?
Great Plains
What was the name of people that began to travel in wagons and explore the west?
Pioneers
True or false? Tornadoes can ONLY happen in the Midwest region
False, they could happen anywhere there is the right conditions...the Midwest just happens to have the right conditions often.
What are the two different plains that make up the Interior Plains?
The Great plains and the Central plains
What is the name of the man who invented the assembly line?
Henry Ford
What is it called in manufacturing when a series of workers and machines in a factory create identical products in mass amounts?
An assembly line
What decade was the Dust Bowl in the 1900s?
(Example: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s....)
1930s
Name all 5 Great Lakes
H. Huron
O. Ontario
M. Michigan
E. Erie
S. Superior
What did pioneers travel and put all of their things in while they traveled west?
A covered wagon
What is the name of the industry that relies on farming and livestock for business?
Agriculture
What process formed the Great Lakes thousands of years ago?
The moving and melting of glaciers