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Lakes are Great
"Plain" and Simple
Big City Life
Small Town Happenings
Potpourri
100
Most people live in urban areas.
What is where do most people in the Great Lakes region live?
100
The two states that are part of the Central Lowlands, not the Great Plains.
What are Iowa and Missouri?
100
Name a reason that people leave big cities.
What is: abandoned buildings, crime increases, businesses and school close, to expensive to live there
100
People who live in these have to travel far to go shopping.
What are small towns?
100
These are the payment a person receives for the work they do.
What are wages?
200
The states all border the Great Lakes
Why are the Great Lakes States called the Great Lakes States?
200
Most of the land in the Plains region is not urban or suburban.
What is rural?
200
Chicago has an __________ train that carries people above the main roads.
What is an elevated train?
200
This means that there are very few people per square mile in the rural areas where small towns are.
What is population density?
200
These store large amounts of grain.
What are grain elevators?
300
Wisconsin and Minnesota border this lake.
What is Lake Superior.
300
People changed the prairie land of the Great Plains by turning it into this . . .
What is farmland?
300
Most are located near waterways.
What are major cities in the Great Plains?
300
Because there are so few people living in small towns, it is a challenge to collect enough of these to pay government bills.
What are taxes?
300
The Plains states are flat areas of farmland. Most people live in ____________ areas in the Plains states.
What is rural?
400
Most people in this subregion live in urban areas.
What is the Great Lakes States region?
400
Most major cities in the Plains area are located near this ________________ because it makes _______________ easier.
What are waterways and what is transportation?
400
Schools are close, many stores for shopping, concerts, theaters, movies
What are reasons for living in a big city?
400
The number of people is very low in urban regions.
What is population density?
400
Besides being good farmers, farmers must also be good _______________.
What is businessmen.
500
Northern area is forested and slightly hilly. Southern area is flat and dry.
What is the land of the Great Lakes region like?
500
This Great Plains state has the most Indian reservations.
What is South Dakota?
500
City that is a trading center, transportation center, and is located on the tip of Lake Michigan.
What is Chicago?
500
This big Plains region city started out as a community of log buildings in 1854.
What is Omaha?
500
The railroad and the telegraph began in this city.
What is Omaha?