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Vocabulary
Industry
Colorado
Farming and Ranching
True/False
100
They are things like farming, manufacturing, and ranching that provide jobs for many Coloradans.
What are industries?
100
An element used for nuclear energy. The first atom bomb was created using this element mined here in Colorado.
What is uranium?
100
A mountain peak in Colorado.
What is Pikes Peak?
100
When there is very little rainfall.
What is a drought?
100
By 1900, the town of Cripple Creek was the second largest gold mining area in the world.
What is True.
200
A town owned by the same company that owned the mine.
What is company town?
200
Name one industry in Colorado that you read about in the book.
What is mining, agriculture, or ranching?
200
Tourists enjoy our beautiful mountains, lakes, and rivers. Name two things people do when visiting Colorado.
What are fishing, hiking, camping, hunting, skiing, or rafting.
200
When you bring water from some place else to water crops.
What is irrigation?
200
Farmers living in sold houses on the Colorado plains were called buffalo huts.
What is False. The sod houses were called 'sodbusters.'
300
A group that fought for the rights of the mine workers.
What is a union?
300
Striking coal miners scuffled with the military. Two women and 11 children were killed.
What is the Ludlow Massacre?
300
Colorado's state capital city.
What is Denver?
300
Fruit like pears, plums, peaches, and cherries are grown by farmers in Colorado. Name another fruit crop grown in Colorado by farmers.
What is cantaloupe? Rocky Ford is famous for its cantaloupes. It is even called the 'Nation's Melon Capital.'
300
Leadville and Aspen are two big gold mining towns.
What is false. Leadville and Aspen were two big silver mining towns.
400
A time in history when during a drought, strong winds carried the top soil great distances.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
Piece of paper that was paid to miners instead of money.
What is scrip?
400
The largest silver nugget ever found was in Aspen. How much did it weigh?
What is 1,840 pounds?
400
One of the more famous cattle trails in Colorado.
What is the Goodnight-Loving Trail.
400
Sheep stink!! They leave a bad odor from oil glands in their hooves.
What is False. Sheep do not have any additional smell. But they still stink sometimes.
500
An element mined in Colorado. It is used to make steel harder.
What is Molybdenum?
500
The owners name of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
500
The town of Greeley, Colorado was named after this New York newspaper man.
Who is Horace Greeley?
500
The government wanted people to settle on the land. They passed the _____________________.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
Coal miners earned $10.00 a day.
What is False. Coal miners only earned $3 - $4 a day.