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 land in the Midwest used for?
Lumber is produced in forested areas of South Dakota's Black Hills.
Where is lumber produced in the Midwest?
A drawing that shows the steps in a process.
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?
Ore and oil are two main resources also found in the states of Illinois and Kansas in the Midwest region.
What are two main resources found in the Midwest in result of mining?
First, the wheat is harvested in the early spring late summer. Then, it is taken to a flour mill where it is cleaned and grinded. Afterwards, it is bagged and shipped to bread factories where the flour is made into dough and baked. Last, it is sliced and packages to be sent to grocery shops where people can buy it.
What are the steps of processing and making wheat into flour?
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?
Livestock is the raising of animals to make a living and form an industry.
What is livestock?
The steps in making wheat that require shipping are the wheat being sent to mills, flour being sent to bakeries, and when the bread was taken to grocery shops.
Which steps in this process require shipping?
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 Great Plains was nicknamed America’s Bread Basket.
How did the Great Plains get the name America’s Bread Basket?
Rock that contains enough of one or more kinds of minerals to be mined.
What is ore?
Oil and natural gas are the symbols mostly shown on the map that indicate that both are most commonly found.
What is the most commonly found natural resource in the Midwest according to the map on pg. 205? Why?
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 Central and Great Plains are known for grazing and ranching. Cattle and sheep graze on land that is too dry for farming.
What were the main industries that grew in the Great and Central plains?
Water is a natural resource found in the Midwest. It is used to fishing, farming, and other basic necessities.
Besides land used for farming and ranching, what other resources are found in the region and what is it used for?
Most of the map is shaded in the light green color which the key indicates as general farming.
How do find out that most of the land in the Midwest is used for farming and agriculture according to the map?