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The Interior Plains
Far From the Ocean
Iron in the Hills
Other
100
A flat area thickly covered with tall grasses.
What is prairie
100
What is an interior plain?
What is the land between mountain ranges
100
What is a drought?
What is little or no rain
100
What are resources in the middle west?
What is iron, soil, and forests
100
Why did many Americans begin to move westward during the 1800s?
What is wanted more fertile land
200
in which winds blowing across a lake from west to east moderate the climate.
What is lake effect
200
What type of landforms cover most of the middle west?
What is plains
200
Middle west has the largest....what?
What is mall
200
method of mining in which huge power shovels are used to dig out ore
What is open pit mining
200
Who were the Lakota?
What is one of the many groups of Native Americans who lived in the plains
300
Miners need to restore the land
What is reclamation
300
Name 2 other landforms in the middle west...
What is great lakes, great plains, mississippi river, Ozark Plateau
300
What is the most dangerous storm the middle west experiences?
What is tornado
300
What did they start making out of steel in the mid west?
What is skyscraper
300
How did technology affect farm work?
What is fewer farmers were needed
400
Sturdy and covered with material
What is conestoga wagon
400
What is major crop grown in the middle west?
What is corn
400
What impact does lake effect have on the middle west climate?
What is cools the land in the summer and warms it in the winter
400
Is iron a renewable to non renewable resource?
What is non renewable
400
What is migration?
What is group movement from one region to another
500
What is agribusiness?
What is large farms ran by major companies
500
Name all the states in the middle west.
What is N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
500
What is another thing that affects the climate?
What is they are not near large bodies of water to help moderate temperature
500
What are four industries that contribute to the economy of the middle west?
What is steel, mining, agriculture, automobiles, and transportation
500
When did the great migration take place?
What is early 1900s