Climate
Great Lakes, Great Plains, or Central Plains
The States
Iron Ore
Poland
100
These landforms are not present in the Middle West, and therefore don't block the cold winds.
What are mountains?
100
These bodies of water are located north on the Northern border of the United States.
What is Great Lakes?
100
I am the state in which your teacher was born. I have a pan handle.
What is Nebraska?
100
This is a useful mineral found in rock.
What is iron ore?
100
This country is not in the United States, yet it is compared to our Middle West plains.
What is Poland?
200
A long period of little or no rain.
What is a drought?
200
The climate is milder near here because the land is near the water.
What is Great Lakes?
200
I have an upper peninsula and am near the Great Lakes.
What is Michigan?
200
Iron ore is used to make this useful material
What is steel?
200
Both Poland and the Interior Plains boast fertile soil, which makes them useful for this.
What is farmland?
300
Wind blowing across a lake from east to west and changing the temperature of the land close by is called this.
What is lake effect?
300
This part of the Interior Plains is rolling with gentle hills and sits low in elevation.
What is Central Plains?
300
I have iron ore in my Mesabi Range.
What is Minnesota?
300
The demand for steel jumped, because it was found useful for making these.
What is bridges, building, cars.
300
Polish farmers and American farmers use chemicals to keep bugs and pests off of plants. These are know as.
What is pesticides?
400
Living near the Great Lakes and experiencing the lake effect can make the temperatures this.
What is milder or gentler?
400
This part of the Central Plains is filled with dry grassland in most areas.
What is Great Plains?
400
I am often referred to as the breadbasket of the United State. It south of Nebraska.
What is Kansas.
400
Most iron ore is mined using this method.
What is open-pit mining?
400
This grain is grown in Poland.
What is rye, wheat, oats or barley?
500
Lake effect changes the climate in Southern Michigan by making it warm enough to grow these.
What is peaches?
500
Wheat is the major crop of this regions.
What is Great Plains.
500
What state is farthest to the east, and yet still part of the Middle West? It's capital is Columbus.
What is Ohio?
500
The law requires miners to "put back" the land after mining for iron ore in a process called this.
What is reclamation?
500
Poland is located on this continent.
What is Europe?
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