Great Lakes
States
Vocabulary
Central and Great Plains
Misc
100
Connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
What is The St. Lawrence Seaway and the St. Lawrence River?
100
Rivers flowed through a lush, green plain
What is the badlands millions of years ago?
100
a gated part of a canal or river
What is a lock
100
The climate is good for growing large amounts of corn
What is Central Plains known as the Corn Belt?
100
Mountain ranges formed and blocked the rain and changed the climate of this area.
What is one reason that the climate changed in the badlands?
200
What created the Great Lakes?
What is melting of Ice Age glaciers?
200
What State shares the same name as a Great Lake
What is Michigan?
200
a process of bringing water to farms to spray on fields
What is irrigation
200
Cotton is not grown here
What is not one of the main crops grown in the Midwest?
200
A waterway that has been dug across the land for ships to go through.
What is canal?
300
Engineers Changed the flow of the Chicago River. Why?
What is connecting Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River?
300
what palace is in South Dakota
What is the Corn Palace?
300
flat bottom boat
What is a barge?
300
planting of different crops in different years
What is crop rotation?
300
Process by which wind and water wear away rock or land.
What is erosion?
400
This costs less that shipping by trucks or trains.
What is shipping goods by Barge?
400
What is the name of the dinosaur fossil that is in the Field Musuem in Chicago? It was found in South Dakota.
What is Sue?
400
region of dry hills and sharp cliffs formed of crumbling rock
What is badlands?
400
needs little rain to grow
What is wheat and sunflowers?
400
Describe a Prairie.
What is an area where grasses grow well, but trees are rare?
500
What is the Great Lake that boarders Minnesota?
What is Lake Superior?
500
What state is south of Minnesota
What is Iowa?
500
Does not get as much rain?
What is The Great Plains?
500
Name two crops that grow in either climate.
What is corn and soybeans?
500
What are the 5 Great Lakes
What is Lake Heron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior
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