The Great Lakes were formed thousands of years ago because of these.
What are glaciers?
100
This is one way the Sioux adapted to living on the Great Plains.
After being pushed to the Great Plains by European settlers, the Sioux began riding wild horses to follow herds of buffalo.
100
This Midwest city connected ten major railroad lines in the mid-1800s to make it one of the busiest transportation hubs in the United States.
What is Chicago, IL?
100
This is a landform that is mostly flat and covered with grasses and wild flowers.
What is a prairie?
200
This is the capital of Ohio.
What is Columbus?
200
This process causes more moisture to go into the air and produces more snow near lake coasts.
What is the Lake Effect?
200
List 3 ways the Sioux tribes used buffalo.
They used buffalo hides for clothing and tipis, meat for food, and bones for tools.
200
After flatboats transported goods down a river, they were used in this way.
What is they were taken apart and sold for lumber?
200
This is a funnel of wind created by the spinning when cold and warm air meet.
What is a tornado?
300
This is the capital of Illinois.
What is Springfield?
300
Explain one way a drought can affect farmers and other people living in the Midwest.
A drought means there is little rain, so crops won't grow as well, meaning farmers do not have as much to sell and prices will go up.
300
Early settlers of the Great Plains used this to make their homes.
What is sod?
300
These helped transport goods much faster (and even upstream) along rivers to make traveling along rivers cheaper.
What are steamboats?
300
This is someone who first settles in a place.
What is a pioneer?
400
This is the capital of Indiana.
What is Indianapolis?
400
This is one difference between the Central Plains and the Great Plains.
The Central Plains are further east, get more rain, and have more trees. The Great Plains are further west, get less rain, and are mostly used for farm land.
400
List two ways settlers of the Midwest had to be self-sufficient.
They had to build their own houses, dig their own wells, and use the local wild life for food.
400
With the invention of this, Henry Ford was able to create automobiles faster and cheaper, making them available to the average person.
What is the assembly line?
400
This is the mass movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
500
This is the capital of Wisconsin.
What is Madison?
500
This mineral is plentiful in the Midwest region, especially in Minnesota.
What is iron?
500
This law offered land to anyone over 21 who agreed to live on the Great Plains for at least 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
500
These sprung up along the newly built railroad tracks in the Midwest because it was no longer necessary to live near waterways for transportation.