Routes to the Sea
A system of rivers, lakes, and canals through which many ships travel.
What is a waterway?
A flat-bottomed boat.
What is a barge?
The wearing away of rock by water and wind.
What is erosion?
The planting of different crops in different years on the same land.
What is crop rotation?
Corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, barley, and sunflowers.
What are major crops in the Midwest?
A kind of waterway that is dug across land.
What is a canal?
Gated parts of a canal or river that open and close to raise or lower water levels.
What are locks?
A grassy area with few trees.
What is a prairie?
Bringing water from rivers and other water sources to crops.
What is irrigation?
Of the Great Plains and Central Plains, this gets more rain.
What is the Central Plains?
These were created by the melting of Ice Age glaciers.
What are the Great Lakes?
A disadvantage of shipping by barge.
What is its slowness?
Once a lush green plain, part of South Dakota is now known as this.
What are badlands?
Reasons why the Midwest is an important agricultural region.
What are its long growing season; warm summers; deep, rich soil; and large flat expanses?
Hogs and cattle.
What are two types of livestock the Midwest is known for?
These connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the St. Lawrence Seaway and the St. Lawrence River?
An advantage of shipping by barge.
What are it can carry larger and heavier loads and is much cheaper than shipping by train or truck.
Because of erosion, many of these have been found in the badlands.
What are fossils?
A nickname for the Central Plains.
What is the Corn Belt?
This state is known for producing lots of apples, cherries, peaches, plums, grapes, blueberries, and strawberries.
What is Michigan?
Engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River to do this.
What is to connect Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River?
The names of the Great Lakes.
What are Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Superior?
The climate of the badlands became cooler and less humid because of these.
What are mountain ranges that block the rain?
Wisconsin is best known for these products.
What are milk and dairy products?
Mitchell, South Dakota.
What town is home to the Corn Palace?