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Where 2
Extra
100
The spanish word for cowboy.
What is vaquero?
100
The beginning of unexplored land.
What is a frontier?
100
The Mall of America is located here.
What is Bloomington, Minnesota?
100
Dodge City is in this state.
Where is Kansas?
100
One of America's busiest airports.
What is O'Hare International Airport?
200
A city that serves as a center for moving goods and people.
What is a transportation hub?
200
Soil that is able to produce good crops.
What is fertile?
200
This links Lake Huron with Lake Superior and are located in Michigan?
What is the Soo Locks?
200
Cattle are loaded onto trains and shipped in this direction form the Midwest for sale.
What is east?
200
One of America's busiest airports is in this city.
Where is Chicago, Illinois?
300
Flat or gently rolling land that is covered with tall grasses and wildflowers.
What is a prairie?
300
Land set aside for Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
300
The Gateway Arch was built to honor the pioneers who left here and headed West.
Where is St. Louis?
300
Henry Ford started an automobile factory in this city & state?
What is Detroit, Michigan?
300
Kansas grows the most. North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, and Nebraska also produce a large amount of it. It is why the Midwest is called is sometimes called, "America's Breadbasket."
What is wheat?
400
Meatpacking
What is the preparing of meat for sale?
400
Also known as "Motor City" or "Motown".
What is Detroit?
400
Two huge monuments are located in the Black Hills of this state? They are Mt. Rushmore National Memorial and the Crazy Horse Memorial.
Where is South Dakota?
400
The first professional baseball tam played in Cincinnati in this state.
What is Ohio?
400
Geography, history, & economics are three reasons why we also call the Midwest this.
What is "America's Heartland"?
500
livestock
What are animals raised on farms, such as cattle?
500
Assembly Line
What is a process in which each worker does one part of a job before passing it on to the next worker?
500
This state is best known for its farming of corn, soybeans, oats, and hay as well as raising livestock.
Where is Iowa?
500
Babe Ruth's famous called shot was in this stadium.
What is Wrigley Field?
500
Economics is one reason why we call the MW "America's Heartland". It is the center for both _________ and ___________.
What is are farming & industry?