Landforms/Map Scale
What is a map scale used for?
To measure distance on a map.
What happens because of the Midwest being an inland climate? Meaning there are no ocean breezes what does this do to the land.
What is extreme high and low temperatures because the ocean breezes do not warm or cool the land.
Name a Great Lake that touches New York.
What is Lake Erie and Lake Ontario?
What years did settlers start moving westward?
1790
What is the capital of North Dakota?
What is Bismarck?
Draw and label a map scale.
Mrs. Johnson will be the judge of this
The Midwest has hot, humid summers with storms bringing cool, dry air that result in what?
What is Destructive Tornadoes?
What Great Lake is the largest?
What is Lake Superior?
What was the national government giving the settlers to move westward?
What was cheap farmland, $1 an acre?
What state belongs with the capital Lincoln?
What is Nebraska?
What landform stretches across most of the Midwest that today is farmland but used to be tall grasses and wildflowers?
Having late springs and hot summers, allows what to happen in the Midwest very abundantly.
What is growing lots of crops?
Which lake is names for the Indian word meaning "long tail"?
What is Lake Erie?
What year did many models of the car start getting created at Ford?
1904-1907
What state belongs with the capital Jefferson City?
What is Missouri?
What lake is the Mississippi River headwaters or start of the river?
What is Lake Itasca?
Name 2 natural resources in the Midwest that help their economy(help them make money)?
What is...
How many Great Lakes are there?
What is 5?
What is 1926?
What is the capital of Wisconsin?
What is Madison?
Name another river, besides the Mississippi, that flows through the Midwest Region.
What is the Missouri and the Ohio Rivers?
Name the other 2 natural resources in the Midwest that help the economy(help them make money?)
What is...
Which Great Lake is located entirely in the US, does not go into Canada?
What is Lake Michigan?
What year did they start the assembly line to manufacture cars faster to keep up with demand of the cars?
What is 1913?
What is the capital of Iowa?
What is Des Moines?