geograpghy
The Entire Midwest region is covered with plains. The Interior Plains, Central plains, and Great Plains include plains and prairies which are flat fertile rolling lands full of wildflowers and plants.
How would you describe the geography of the Midwest?
A funnel-shaped spinning windstorm.
What is a tornado?
Most of the Midwest is used for farming and ranching.
What is most of the Midwest land used for?
A chart used to give an explanation about the process of how something is done or made.
What is a flow chart?
A flat rolling land full of wildflowers and plants.
What is a prairie?
When warm and cold air meet in the Interior plains in the spring and summer, tornadoes become common.
What seasons do tornadoes in the Midwest become more common?
The Midwest has many resources. South Dakota has most of the coal mines.
What state in the Midwest has the most coal mines?
Iron Ore is the most commonly used or found natural resource in the Midwest.
What is the most commonly found natural resource in the Midwest?
Crops such as corn and wheat now are grown in the Midwestern prairie and plains.
What kinds of crops are grown in the Midwestern plains?
There are over 300 tornadoes each year that occur in the Midwest region.
How many tornadoes happen in the Midwest each year?
The Corn Belt was the area in the Central plains where corn and soybeans were commonly grown.
What is the Corn Belt?
You would you use the key on the map to look for the areas that are colored in lighter green for farming on the map on pg. 250.
How would you find out how much land is is used for farming from pg. 250?
The Great Lakes were formed and shaped as glaciers were pushed apart. They formed into 5 huge holes. As the weather warmed up, the water melted and formed lakes.
How were the Great Lakes formed?
In the 1930s, the Great Plains went through the Dust Bowl which is a time when the wind blew away dry soil and crops due to the long drought the area went through. These dust storms ruined farms and and many homes.
What happened during the worst drought in the United States?
Due to the drier lands, farmers grew wheat in the Great Plains area. Wheat was then made into flour.This is how the Midwest was nicknamed America’s Bread Basket.
How did the Midwest get the name America’s Bread Basket?
The steps that require shipping in the flow chart for how to make wheat into flour are when the wheat is grinded and sent to mills and when the flour and bread is ready to be shipped to stores.
What steps in the flow chart and process nedd shipping?
The Central Plains are on the east side of the region and have moister land that can grow taller grass. The Great Plains is located on the west side of the region and is drier. Therefore, less tall grass grows there.
How are the Central Plains different from the Great Plains?
Long periods of time with no or little rain to the extent that land and crops dry up.
What is a drought?
The main industries that formed in the Great Plains and Central Plains were ranching and farming.
What were the main industries that grew in the Midwest?