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A Route to the Sea
The Badlands
Bountiful Midwestern Farms
100
A flat bottomed boat
What is a barge?
100
The process of bringing water to farms to spray over fields
What is irrigation?
100
Name on way in which Midwest products are transported
What is by boat or by barge?
100
The climate of South Dakota when the dinosaurs lived there
What is hot and humid?
100
The reason the Corn Palace was built
What is to show the importance of agriculture?
200
Region of dry hills and sharp cliffs formed of crumbling rock
What is the badlands?
200
The planting of different crops in different years
What is crop rotation?
200
Name the Great Lakes
What are Lake Erie, Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Ontario?
200
How did erosion help shape the badlands in South Dakota?
What is by wearing away rock?
200
The planting of different crops in different years
What is crop rotation?
300
Area where grasses grow well, but trees are rare
What is a prairie?
300
Waterway that has been dug across land for ships to go through
What is a canal?
300
Tell me what things that should not be shipped by barge
What is anything perishable?
300
The state in which Badlands National Park is found
What is South Dakota?
300
Two main crops grown in the Central Plains
What is corn and soybeans?
400
System of rivers, lakes, and canals through which many ships travel
What is a waterway?
400
Process by which water and wind wear away rock
What is erosion?
400
The way a lock differs from a waterway
What is a lock is part of a waterway?
400
The reason that a prairie is a better place for farming
What is because the land is flatter and has better soil and more rain?
400
It is how farmers in the Great Plains get water for their crops
What is irrigation?
500
Creature with a dark and light striped shell that was discovered in 1988 in the waters of Lake Erie
What are zebra mussels?
500
Gated part of a canal or river
What is a lock?
500
A disadvantage of shipping by barge
What is it is slow?
500
Name the two elements that cause erosion
What is wind and rain?
500
The effect irrigation has had on the Great Plains
What is more types of crops can be grown
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