______________________ were created by the melting of Ice Age glaciers?
What are the Great Lakes?
100
The systems of rivers, lakes, and canal through which many ships travel are _______________.
What are waterways?
100
Regions of dry hills and sharp cliffs formed by crumbling rock is the __________________.
What are the Badlands?
100
A reason why the Midwest is NOT an important agricultural region is ______________________. A) The growing season is long. B) All the farms grow the same type of crops. C) The summers are warm. D) The soil is deep and rich.
What is all farms grow the same type of crops?
100
One of the main crops grown in the Midwest is NOT ________________. A) corn B) cotton C) soybeans or D) wheat
What is cotton?
200
A _________________ is a waterway dug across land for ships to go through.
What is a canal?
200
A flat-bottomed boat that transports goods is a _______________.
What is a barge?
200
A description of the badlands millions of years ago is ____________________________________________.
What is rivers flowed through a lush, green, plain?
200
You might visit the ________________ in Mitchell, South Dakota.
What is the Corn Palace?
200
______________ and _____________ are crops that can be used to make alcohol for fuel.
What are corn and wheat?
300
The _________________ and _______________ connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the St. Lawrence Seaway and St. Lawrence River?
300
One advantage of shipping goods by barge is _______________.
What is costs less than other methods?
300
One reason why the climate of the badlands became cooler and less humid is _______________________________________________.
What is mountain ranges rose and blocked rain that once fell there?
300
The planting of different crops in different years is called ___________________.
What is crop rotation?
300
Irrigation helps farmers by _______________________________________________.
What is it allows them to bring water from rivers or from underground to spray over their crops?
400
A _______________ is a gated part of a canal or river.
What is a lock?
400
_______________ are the main method of transportation for fresh fruits and vegetables because they can provide door-to-door shipping.
What are trucks?
400
The process by which water and wind wear away rock is _______________.
What is erosion?
400
An area of the Central Plains is known as the Corn Belt because ____________________________________.
What is it gets enough rain so that corn grows well there?
400
The Midwest is a leading ______________ producer.
What is hog?
500
Engineers changed the flow of the Chicago River to __________________________________________.
What is connect Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River?
500
________________ can carry much heavier loads than trucks can and at faster speeds.
What are trains?
500
You would probably not see _______________ on a prairie. A) trees B) grasses C) sheep or D) cattle
What are trees?
500
Farms on the Great Plains and on the Central Plains grow different types of crops because ____________________
_______________________________________________.
What is they recieve different amounts of rainfall influencing what types of crops grow best.
500
________________ and _______________ are very important products of Wisconsin?