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The Land of the Midwest
Settling in the Midwest
Living and Working in the Midwest
The Automobile Industry
States and Capitals
100
The most unique landform of the Midwest.
What are the Great Plains?
100
The study of artifacts to learn how certain people used to live.
What is archaeology?
100
Two of the agricultural products that come prominently from the Midwest.
What are corn, wheat, milk, beef, and/or pork?
100
A line of people who each have a small part in making a product.
What is an assembly line?
100
The capitol of Illinois.
What is Springfield?
200
Huge, swirling windstorms.
What are tornadoes?
200
The type of houses the Kickapoo and Ojibway lived in.
What are wigwams?
200
Watering a field artificially.
What is irrigation?
200
The man who started the assembly line (and also created a company of cars!)
Who is Henry Ford?
200
The capitol of Wisconsin.
What is Madison?
300
A collection of water that is trapped underground.
What is an aquifer?
300
France and this other country fought for trading and trapping rights in the Midwest in the mid-1700s.
What is Britain?
300
A way the people of the Midwest use their land that produces steel.
What is mining?
300
Pieces made that fit into every car (or other product) without needing to be changed.
What are interchangeable parts?
300
The capitol of Kansas.
What is Topeka?
400
Two out of three of the states that are part of "Tornado Alley."
What are Iowa, Missouri, and/or Kansas?
400
Settlers used this to hold their houses together as some settled and others kept going on the Oregon Trail.
What is sod?
400
Animals that are raised on a farm.
What is livestock?
400
The price of cars went down when this started being used.
What is an assembly line?
400
The state whose capitol is Columbus.
What is Ohio?
500
The type of summers and winters the Midwest has.
What are hot summers and cold winters?
500
The area in which the soil turned to dust and strong winds created huge dust storms.
What is the "Dust Bowl"?
500
The decade that industries around the Great Lakes had trouble staying in business and many closed.
What are the 1970s?
500
Many people who are working together.
What is a Labor Force?
500
The state whose capitol is Des Moines.
What is Iowa?