Land and Water
What are the names of the two plains located in the Midwest?
Central Plains and Great Plains
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The Midwest has very ____ winters and very ___ summers.
cold, hot
What is the most important resource in the Midwest region?
Soil
Are landmarks man made or nature made?
Man made
What are the two kinds of music that came from the Midwest region?
Rock and Roll and Motown
Which plain is full of flat, gently rolling land with few trees but lots of prairie grasses and fertile soil?
Central Plains
What is the part of the Midwest called that has a very high number of destructive tornadoes in the spring and summer?
Tornado Alley
Wheat, Dairy, and Corn belts
What is the landmark in the Midwest that is the largest indoor shopping mall in America?
Minnesota's Mall of America
What city in the Midwest developed its own kind of barbecue sauce?
Kansas City
Which plain is dry, rocky, full of hills with land that would be useless for farming?
Great Plains
What do we call winter storms that bring heavy snow and freezing wind?
Blizzards
What is the Midwest region's nickname due to the amount of wheat it produces?
America's Breadbasket
When completed, what Midwest landmark will be the world's largest statue?
Crazy Horse
What are the names of the two major rivers that flow through the Midwest?
Mississippi River and Missouri River
What animal did hunters used to hunt for their thick skin in the Midwest?
Bison
Much of the steel in the Midwest is used to create what?
Cars and trucks
South Dakota
What outdoor sport was invented in Minnesota in 1922?
Water skiing
Name the 5 regions of the United States.
Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
What is closed in the winter months due to the ice on the Great Lakes?
Which belt produces syrup used in ice cream, glue, soap, and paint?
Corn belt
Who are the 4 faces on Mt. Rushmore?
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt.
Where was rock and roll music invented in the early 1950's?
Cleveland, Ohio