A Route to the Sea
The Badlands of South Dakota
Bountiful Midwestern Farms
Vocabulary
Chart and Graph Skills
100
Great Lakes
What is what is created by the meling of Ice Age glaciers?
100
Rivers flowed through a lush, green plain
What is the description of the badlands millions of years ago?
100
All the farms grow the same type of crop
What is not a reason why the midwest is an important agricultural region?
100
Gated part of a canal or a river
What is a lock?
100
The graph goes up or down to show changes over time
What is a line graph?
200
Waterway dug across land for ships to go through
What is the description of a canal?
200
Mountain ranges rose and blocked rain that once fell there.
What is one reason why the climate of the badlands became cooler and less humid?
200
It gets enough rain so that corn grows well there
Why is the area of the Central Plains known as the Corn Belt?
200
The planting of different crops in different years
What is crop rotation?
200
This graph shows changes over time and compares amounts.
What is a bar graph?
300
St. Lawrence Seaway and St. Larence River
What is what connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
300
The process by which water and wind wear away rock
What is erosion?
300
Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat
What are the main crops grown in the Midwest
300
Area where grasses grow well, but trees are rare
What is prairie?
300
Line graphs and Bar graphs
What is they help you find imformation quickly and easily?
400
To connect Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River
What is why did engineers change the flow of the Chicago River?
400
Trees
What is something that you would not see on a prairie?
400
It allows them to bring water from rivers or from underground to spray over their crops
What is how does irrigation help farmers?
400
Region of dry hills and sharp cliffes formed by crumbling rock
What is the badlands?
400
Only using one source of information
What is a line graph?
500
Barge
What is a flat-bottomed boat that transports goods?
500
Milk and dairy products
What is products that are important to Wisconsin?
500
System of rivers, lakes, and canals through which many ships travel
What is waterway?
500
Comparing temperatures from year to year
What is using a bar graph?
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