Geography
Landforms
Natural Resources
Economy
People
100
Which state has 22,000 lakes?
What is Minnesota.
100
What are flat lands covered by grasses and wildflowers?
What are prairies.
100
What valuable resource is found within ore, used to make buildings, tools, and cars?
What is iron.
100
What is it called when a line of workers or machines put a product together in sequential steps?
What is an assembly line.
100
What is the group of people that build large hills, farmed, traded, and built cities before they disappeared around 1300?
What are the mound builders.
200
What formed the Great Lakes?
What are glaciers that moved slowly across the land, flattening the land, carving out giant holes, and melting to fill the holes with water.
200
Badlands are very dry lands that have been chipped away by what?
What is wind and water.
200
What was in high demand by 1900, which made the Midwest a lead producer in the country and resulted in an increase in factories?
What is steel.
200
In 1913, Henry Ford began creating cars quickly and cheaply through what means?
What is mass production.
200
Which tribe is part of the Plains peoples, lives in Nebraska/North and South Dakota/Minnesota, and depends on buffalo for survival?
What is the Lakota.
300
Which river is nicknamed the "Big Muddy"?
What is the Missouri River.
300
What lies underneath the Black Hills mountains of South Dakota?
What is Wind Cave.
300
What is one natural resource of the Midwest that creates energy?
What is coal; natural gas; oil; or wind.
300
Name one technological topic that is being researched in the Midwest.
What are atoms in Fermilab in Illinois or medical research in Missouri.
300
Which culture lives in present-day Michigan and Ohio, is a part of the Eastern Woodlands peoples, and hunts, fishes, and farms?
What is the Ojibwa.
400
How did fertile soil get to the Midwest?
What is it was carried by rivers from the north to the south, transplanting the fertile soil in the Midwest.
400
What happens to the land the farther away you move from the Great Lakes?
What is the land becomes higher, giving way to hills and mountains.
400
What natural resource helps to create electricity?
What is wind, blowing the blades of wind turbines.
400
What did farmers do after machines were invented to harvest more crops, more quickly?
What is raise crops for money instead of eating all they produced, or move to Midwestern cities to find jobs in factories.
400
What did Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable establish near Lake Michigan, which grew into present-day Chicago?
What is a trading post.
500
Explain why cities tend to grow along river banks.
What is because rivers provide a source of water for people and crops, and they also provide a means of transportation for goods and people.
500
What is the landform that is only found in the Midwest and not other regions?
What are the badlands.
500
What are the most important cash crops to the Midwest?
What are corn, soybeans, and wheat.
500
What are the countries to which Kansas exports its wheat?
What are Mexico, Djibouti, Nigeria, and Japan.
500
What was the purpose of the Great Migration by African-Americans from the south to the Midwest?
What is to find jobs in factories and equality.
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