Midwest
Farming
Southwest
Rivers
Leftovers
100
This city is known as the Gateway to the West
What is St. Louis, Missouri
100
In the 1800s, farming was done with these
What are simple iron tools?
100
This 'A' word helped people of Phoenix, AZ adapt to the hot climate
What is air conditioning?
100
These people were the earliest settlers in the Colorado River Basin
Who were American Indian farmers?
100
This city is a major transportation hub
What is Chicago, Illinois?
200
This makes Iowa a good place to farm
What is fertile soil?
200
McCormick's reaper helped farmers by doing this.
What is cutting the time it takes to harvest grain?
200
In the Carlsbad Caverns, hundreds of thousands of these live there
What are bats?
200
This caused the Anasazis and Hohokams to leave their homes
What is too little rain?
200
This state produces a lot of milk and milk products.
What is Wisconsin?
300
The faces of these people are carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills.
Who are American Presidents? (Washington, Roosevelt, Lincoln and Jefferson)
300
Fertilizers and pesticides help farmers by doing this.
What is helping them grow more food on less land?
300
This is a memorial to the Texas Freedom Fighters
What is the Alamo?
300
This divided the Colorado River's water between the states in the upper and lower basins.
What is the Colorado River Compact?
300
This has caused the number of farms to decrease
What is the price of crops has fallen, so farmers struggle to make money?
400
Because of these, boats need the Soo Locks in Michigan to help them travel through the Great Lakes.
What are different water levels?
400
This is the most important tool on many farms today
What is the tractor?
400
This state is known as the 'Sooner State'
What is Oklahoma?
400
This is why people create resevoirs
What is to store water?
400
True or False: Farmers must work hard at their jobs
True
500
Henry Ford's assembly line did this for car production.
What is made car production faster?
500
This happened to the number of acres a farm has between 1800 and today
What is they increased to about 450 acres per farm?
500
These two groups of people fought at the Alamo
Who are the Mexicans and Texans?
500
Recycling waste water is one way to do this
What is conserve water?
500
Mexicans moved closer to the border of Texas and Mexico for this reason
What is they wanted jobs in factories?
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